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Assisted voting & politiqueras

Okay, before anyone gets offended and thinks that I’m mocking those poor souls suffering from Alzheimer’s, I’m not. I lived the experience with a close family member for almost seven years, so I know the stress and emotional pain that comes tied to the disease. Over the years, however, in the columns I’ve written about the politiquera(o)s, AKA, paid political votegetters, some votes won by hook or by crook, free coke or cerveza, I’ve mocked the voting process, whereby, a politiquera visits a nursing home and then drives a patient with dementia (which may be caused by Alzheimer’s), to a polling ...

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