True story, apparently, from Southfield Township, Michigan: Nursing-home resident goes into cardiac arrest while filling out his absentee ballot, revives after CPR, wakes up, asks, “Did I vote?”
Footnote It would be ironic if the Lazarus in the story had just finished voting for a candidate pledged to slashing the Medicaid budget that pays for nursing-home care, but it wouldn’t make his citizenship any less heroic.
I think it would. Voting against your self-interest might be heroic. Voting for a liar rarely is. Voting for this liar-not at all.
From the story, I don’t think the elderly man was a nursing-home resident; he was voting at Township offices and the man voting next to him happened to be a home-care nurse.