I just got finished speaking to a woman whose sister has end-stage liver cancer, but wants to vote. Her sister entered the hospital last week with a fever, and has gotten steadily worse and is now essentially paralyzed, only able to communicate by blinking or nodding her head.
Her sister called the voter hotline hoping to be able to help her sister vote. Three calls later, and after talking to about 10 different lawyers here, the sister is going to print out an absentee ballot form with an attached section for voters who can't sign their own names, and a designation form that would allow her sister to designate her as an agent for election purposes. The sister is going to get these forms signed, have a doctor or nurse write a note attesting to the illness, and take them tomorrow to court in Philadelphia to try to get an absenteen ballot so her sister can vote for Obama.
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