While some residents who live in nursing homes would get to exercise their right to vote in this election, over the past few years, dozens of nursing homes have been cited for violating residents’ voting rights, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Taloria Stevenson Green has voted in every election since 1972, casting her ballot at a polling place across the street from her Washington, D.C. home. But last year, she moved into a nursing home. She still voted though — this time absentee, when local election officials came to the facility to help residents vote.
“We have a say-so in what goes on in our country,” Green, 61, told other nursing home residents at a luncheon held last month in Washington, D.C. “I look at it as both a responsibility and a right to have my voice heard.”
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