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Nursing Home Residents Have a Right to Vote — Despite What Trump CMS Agency Says

The Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987 requires facilities to support their residents in exercising their rights.

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Cindy Napolitan and her daughter Melissa have multiple sclerosis, a degenerative condition in which the immune system attacks the brain, spinal cord and nerves. They have lived together at a nursing home in Mesquite, Texas, for nine years. In previous elections, Cindy and Melissa Napolitan voted by mail, but this year they took an unusual step: They voted in person. They worried their mail-in…

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