More voting stuff (But probably the last of it)

Yesterday was Election Day, and I of course rocked the vote early on in the day.

After I voted though we went to Inglis House (A wheelchair community down the street from SJU). We went there to help them vote, by pushing them back and forth from their rooms to the voting booths on the first floor.

It's weird, because I had a conversation with one of my friends the night before about mentally disable people and voting. He asked the question of whether or not people that are severely mentally disabled should be able to vote. He thought they should, and so did I because by the nature of the "right to vote", if they're American citizens they should obviously be able to vote.

Saying something like that and then seeing it are two different things. The first person that I transported didn't know whether she wanted to vote or not. After fifteen minutes of transportation we got down to the booths, and we found out that she wasn't even registered to vote. The second man who I transported was severely severely mentally disabled, he couldn't speak and could barely move in his wheelchair. His nurse told me to take him down to vote and after a half hour we finally got to the booth, only to find out that he had already voted earlier in the day...

I just can't picture him having ANY idea about who he was voting for. I understand protecting his rights to vote, but did he really know anything about the election?

Later that night at Project H.O.M.E. was another interesting experience. We did a phone bank and called almost every shelter or transitional home in the city to see if people needed rides to the polling booths. Literally no one needed any help (it was 6:00 PM so many of them had already voted), but still.

I met a guy that night that didn't vote. I asked him who he wanted to win and he said "I guess that Oracka" guy. I understand that he might've been mentally disabled, but it was interesting because I hadn't met anyone yet that didn't know who was running for president.

Well anyway, we have a new president and thank goodness I don't have to worry about it anymore!!