“Nursing home residents isolated by coronavirus now face looming challenge: Voting.”
Friday, May 29, 2020,
By Lily Datz
Nina Kohn, the David M. Levy Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Online Education at the College of Law was interviewed by ABC News for the story “Nursing home residents isolated by coronavirus now face looming challenge: Voting.” Kohn, an expert on the civil rights of older persons, says “we should be clear that there is tremendous reason to be concerned that nursing home residents will be… systematically disenfranchised in this election.” She emphasizes how important it is for nursing homes to address the issue directly by establishing accessible balloting procedures for residents.