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.
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.
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.
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.
A sentence from that article that I love:
“Corporeal status”. I love it. I’m probably going to semi-ironically incorporate that phrase into my lexicon
Depends on the state. Florida would count the vote, but idk about Georgia.