Jimmy Carter Casts His Ballot for Harris in Georgia

www.nytimes.com /2024/10/16/us/jimmy-carter-votes-georgia.html

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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Legend, I hope he lives long enough to see the country come back together
- Half the country isn't going to suddenly become sane again on November 6.
  
  You think he's gonna die on Nov 6th?
  
  If Trump loses, again, I'm betting he gets the hot potato treatment. It'll be like Nixon all over again. Today's supporters will dial it way down.
  "Well, yeah, I kinda liked the guy, but I was never crazy about him."
  
  Half? I think you’re being optimistic…
  I’m thinking everyone will lose it. No matter who wins
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:
  "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
  
  Regardless, if that were to be the case for Jimmy Carter I think anyone who threw out his ballot would find themselves extremely unpopular.
- Depends on the state. Florida would count the vote, but idk about Georgia.
I'm curious what percentage of surviving presidents are also voting for Harris.
- All but one.

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