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Jimmy Carter Casts His Ballot for Harris in Georgia
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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
Regardless, if that were to be the case for Jimmy Carter I think anyone who threw out his ballot would find themselves extremely unpopular.
Seriously. I have family in Georgia, and while there's a ton of right wingers down there, they're still proud of their Christian native raised former president. They'll forgive him for being a Democrat, he didn't know any better.
Depends on the state. Florida would count the vote, but idk about Georgia.