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Jimmy Carter Casts His Ballot for Harris in Georgia (www.nytimes.com)

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The 39th president, who entered hospice care in February 2023, submitted an absentee ballot, according to a grandson. His family said he had been eager to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is out of curiosity but if someone casts a absentee ballot and then dies before the vote is counted, does it still count?

On one hand I see "dead people shouldn't vote" but on the other "he voted when he was alive and it was only counted when he was dead"?

I know this situation doesn't normally come up but is there legal precedence?

To be clear I respect and Carter and hope he is still alive for quite some time but him being in hospice and voting brought the question to mind.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a detailed article about that — Georgia doesn't have a law requiring that the ballot be counted, so there may be some level of discretion for election officials to toss it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

A sentence from that article that I love:

"Ten [states] specifically mandate the counting of absentee ballots regardless of the voter’s corporeal status."

"Corporeal status". I love it. I'm probably going to semi-ironically incorporate that phrase into my lexicon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Depends on the state. Florida would count the vote, but idk about Georgia.