The New York Times encouraged a reader last week to “help” a 97-year-old woman with advanced memory loss — who is “becoming nearly impossible to communicate with” — to complete her ballot. 

“When the situation is hazy, my inclination would be to err on the side of helping someone to vote, because voting is such a central form of civic participation,” wrote the Times’ “Ethicist” Columnist Kwame Anthony Appiah.

The Problem

A reader wrote the Times, saying the grandmother has “advanced” Alzheimer’s and hearing loss. The reader wanted to know if it would be “unethical” to help the elderly woman vote in November, likely having the grandma do “the mechanics of voting” while family members “advise her.”

The reader claimed to have helped the grandmother fill out her absentee ballot in 2020.

“She held the pen while we did our best to explain each office and issue. If there was any confusion, we would tell her how we voted, and she would do the same,” the reader wrote. “Is it unethical to help her vote again this November?”

The reader wrote that the elderly woman’s “cognition was in decline four years ago, but it was not as degraded as it is now.”

“I foresee things playing out similarly to the last general election, in which she performs the mechanics of voting while we advise her,” the reader wrote. “Before her illness, we were familiar enough with her political opinions to be reasonably confident about whom and what she would vote

Vice President Kamala Harris wants to tinker with the tax code because “working families deserve a break.” She promoted the plan in Tuesday’s debate with former President Donald Trump and in her newly released agenda.

The Harris plan would give “more than 100 million working and middle-class Americans … a tax cut,” her agenda says. But what she really means is she wants to create more government spending and give some folks free money, on the backs of taxpayers who don’t qualify for the pricey plan.

Harris aims to bolster the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit, and beyond that, to boost the Child Tax Credit to $6,000 for families with newborn children.

These tax credits were meant for lower-income people, but the plan will likely have unintended consequences, according to Warren Hudak, a federally licensed tax practitioner and past president of the Pennsylvania Society of Enrolled Agents. He has testified before Congress on tax matters.

“The problem is, it’s not targeted. It’s not outcomes based,” Hudak told The Federalist. “Who are we helping, and how are we helping? The problem with the tax code — using it for these kinds of policies — it just gives away money to use for anything they want. I can tell you, there’s a reason why they’re poor, and it isn’t because they make great choices.”

Think about it. What happens when you (if you) get a tax refund? Some Americans put it into savings, use it to buy a

A grassroots organization is demanding to know why Nevada’s Democrat elections chief is limiting citizens’ ability to challenge potentially ineligible registrants on the state’s voter rolls.

In a letter sent to Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar on Sunday, Citizen Outreach Foundation President Chuck Muth questioned the rationale behind a memo issued by the secretary’s office to local election officials on Aug. 27 instructing them to refrain from complying with voter registrant challenges made under a specific provision of state law.

“If there are raised any doubts about the integrity of any elections in Nevada in November that turn out to be close, it won’t be because of ‘right-wing election deniers’ but because of your actions to thwart the legitimate efforts of our organization to assist with the obviously flawed current system of identifying and removing ineligible voters from the Active voter rolls,” Muth wrote.

As The Federalist previously reported, the Nevada-based Citizen Outreach Foundation (COF) aims to ensure accuracy within the state’s voter rolls through its Pigpen Project, which involves consultation with local election officials to identify individuals who are no longer eligible to remain on the Silver State’s voter registration lists. Muth previously told The Federalist that these local officials “have been extremely cooperative and helpful” in showing the group the correct procedures for filing challenges.

The Situation

In May, the Citizen Outreach Foundation filed roughly a dozen “test” challenges in Clark County under a provision of Nevada law known as Section 547 using data from the secretary of