Jimmy Carter Casts His Ballot for Harris in Georgia

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• ThePantser@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Legend, I hope he lives long enough to see the country come back together

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• vrek@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Regardless, if that were to be the case for Jimmy Carter I think anyone who threw out his ballot would find themselves extremely unpopular.

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  • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• ObsidianZed@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m curious what percentage of surviving presidents are also voting for Harris.

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All but one.

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