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 Now that the election is over, politicians can forget everything they said and get back to more important things, like barring the criminally insane from voting!
It happened again Tuesday, as it does in most every election: Howard Unruh, the man who killed 13 people in a 1949 Camden shooting spree, voted and the Mercer County Board of Elections declared his ballot invalid.
Though his ballot was not counted, the possibility of voting by Unruh and other people who have committed heinous crimes but have not been convicted either because they were found not competent to stand trial or because they were not guilty by reason of insanity sparked outrage among some officials this week.
State Sen. Shirley Turner, a Democrat from Lawrenceville, said that she is drafting a bill that would bar the criminally insane from voting. “These are the people who have been determined not to know right from wrong — which is why they’re in a psychiatric facility,” she said.
Cue the jokes about barring Republicans from voting and faux academic blog posts about why, yes indeed, being a Democrat is a mental illness. Ugh, I know. But we can all agree on one thing: Howard Unruh definitely cast a write-in vote for Ron Paul.
Criminally insane would be denied vote under bill [Bergen Record]
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