California Rethuglicans try disenfranchising disabled voters

[RPG Advocate]

Rethugs continue voter suppression efforts

Wednesday night the California Republican Party asked some questions about possible voting abuses. Those questions centered on the votes of 10 developmentally disabled adults in the Sierra foothills.

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Michael Rascon voted in his first presidential election. He and nine other developmentally disabled clients at the Thumbs Up adult care home in Tuolumne County recently cast their absentee ballots. All but one voted for Barak Obama.
"Did someone help you vote?" asked the ABC reporter.
"Dave did," said Michael.
David Simerley is the home's director. He admits to helping any client with his ballot who asked.

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Karlan says legally, someone like Director Simerley can fill out a ballot for his clients, if they're illiterate or incapable. Freedom of speech even gives Simerley the right to share his political opinions.
"We try to be totally non-partisan. We didn't tell people how to vote, we told people how to vote," said David Simerley.
Regardless, Michael Rascon's father thinks his son was manipulated.
"He wouldn't know one candidate from another," said Sam Rascon, Michael's father.

Granted, if the home director did manipulate the care home residents into voting for Obama, it would be unethical, but I don't think this is what's really going on here. It's more likely that the Rethugs see these disabled voters as especially easy targets in its larger voter suppression campaign. If the GOP wants to call out unethical activity, maybe it should put its own house in order first.