I agree with all you wrote. Furthermore, it starts at the lowest level on helping the disabled and elderly to vote. This is a Republican town, but we’ve had a series of Dem City clerks. Who goes to the nursing home to “help” them to vote? THe City clerk. This can make a difference even in local (non-partisan) elections, because we’re all partisan in one way or another. Those city officers can throw an Aldermanic, or Mayoral, election very easily.
We had a case here in WI where a Gubenatorial candidate (our current Gov) gave a “party” for some developmentally challenged people living in a group home. He handed out quarters so they could play Bingo and ice cream. Then, his aides ushered them into another room and “help” them to vote absentee. Funny thing, the AG (Dem) at the time couldn’t find any thing wrong with that. THat’s why some people still call him “Bingo” Doyle.
When my mother was in a nursing home in NJ, a Democrat came around to the nursing home and filled out absentee ballots for everyone in the home, they just signed their names. Of course if the persons was capable of making their own decision, they didn’t stop them. They just encouraged them to vote a straight Democrat ticket.