WPR Interview: Voting in Nursing Homes during the Pandemic

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DRW’s Barbara Beckert spoke with WPR about the need to ensure the voting rights of Wisconsinites who live in nursing homes and other care facilities.

Care facilities have a responsibility to affirm and support the right of residents to vote, and to ensure that residents are free of interference, coercion, discrimination, and reprisal from the facility in exercising their rights.