Will challenge son’s vote

From the Durham Herald Sun (registration required):

The mother of a man with intellectual disabilities in North Carolina claims an employee of a Durham group home committed voter fraud by taking her 28-year-old son to an early-voting site and telling him how to mark his ballot.

Eileen Murphy said she is planning to challenge her son’s vote, but will not pursue criminal charges. Her son, Adam Folsom, has velo-cardio-facial syndrome and reads at a third-grade level.

Murphy said she had told the group home that she did not want her son to vote. She said her son told her a group home worker had gone with him into the voting booth and told him where to mark his ballot. “They took advantage of him and had him vote the way they wanted him to vote,” she said.

Don Wright, general counsel for the N.C. Board of Elections, said Folsom and others like him are allowed to vote. “There’s no mental capacity requirement for voters or office holders,” he said.

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