Not to be a turd, but what if he dies between now and the election? If I were Trump, I’d be all, “I told you so! Democrats are letting dead people vote and it’s all because of their early voting scam!”
From a legal and governing standpoint, filtering ballots for the recently deceased would be insane. Both parties have equal opportunity to allow recently deceased people to vote for a November election, the GOP just doesn’t do it as much.
It’d be interesting for there to be a lawsuit about it. But, I’d have a very hard time seeing how a candidate could sue and prove they were harmed. That’s a lot of number crunching and ignores the equal opportunity to vote early by both parties and ignores that mortality is not party specific. The candidate suing could actually have been the beneficiary of such rules depending on who died.
Also be crass as hell for someone to sue the state bc someone’s grandma died right before the election. But, if an election result was close enough, imagine a campaign doing the research and finding that a recount of only alive people at the time of E-Day would result in them winning. It’d take the perfect storm and I’d love to see it out of curiosity.
If vote early in person, it is impossible to separate out one person’s vote after they checked in and voted. The ballot paper marketed by the electronic device is already in the box, or directly recorded vote, and is anonymous. Ie the vote is already in, no way to single out, and has to be counted.
For a mail ballot, once the returned ballot is processed, and accepted, it is set aside ready to count. Usually states law would mandate counting starting right away in the morning of the Election Day. Thus theoretically the government can identify who died before EDay and cancel that ballot. This varies state by state. Some states say they have to count (ig Hawaii, they counted the ballot from Obama’s grandma) some explicitly say they need to be cancelled. Majority are silent but imply these ballot should count. And then there is logistics. Once the processing takes out the inner envelope, this is equivalent to the ballot already in the box. It is anonymous and impossible to be singled out anymore, even after that they found out the voters death before EDay.
Wisconsin requires cancellation of the mail ballot, if the authority knows the death before the election day, and the ballot has not been taken out, into the pile yet.
https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/16/jimmy-carter-votes-for-kamala-harris/
I'm so glad he lived long enough to do this! A former girlfriend of mine wasn't so lucky. She died of a rare type of cancer at 51 a few weeks ago.
and he will be around on election night to see Kamala Harris win!!!!
Here is hoping. For us, for the Anglosphere, and for the democratic world.
I hope so, but he was smart to vote as early as possible.
He's no fool. He knows his home state well.
Very sorry to hear about that. Cancer is awful.
Thank you; I appreciate it. It really is terrible. Her mother lost her husband about 2 years ago and now her only child.
Not to be a turd, but what if he dies between now and the election? If I were Trump, I’d be all, “I told you so! Democrats are letting dead people vote and it’s all because of their early voting scam!”
From a legal and governing standpoint, filtering ballots for the recently deceased would be insane. Both parties have equal opportunity to allow recently deceased people to vote for a November election, the GOP just doesn’t do it as much.
It’d be interesting for there to be a lawsuit about it. But, I’d have a very hard time seeing how a candidate could sue and prove they were harmed. That’s a lot of number crunching and ignores the equal opportunity to vote early by both parties and ignores that mortality is not party specific. The candidate suing could actually have been the beneficiary of such rules depending on who died.
Also be crass as hell for someone to sue the state bc someone’s grandma died right before the election. But, if an election result was close enough, imagine a campaign doing the research and finding that a recount of only alive people at the time of E-Day would result in them winning. It’d take the perfect storm and I’d love to see it out of curiosity.
I don't think anyone's vote can be invalidated if they die after voting. Is there any law that allows their vote to be invalidated for that reason?
If vote early in person, it is impossible to separate out one person’s vote after they checked in and voted. The ballot paper marketed by the electronic device is already in the box, or directly recorded vote, and is anonymous. Ie the vote is already in, no way to single out, and has to be counted.
For a mail ballot, once the returned ballot is processed, and accepted, it is set aside ready to count. Usually states law would mandate counting starting right away in the morning of the Election Day. Thus theoretically the government can identify who died before EDay and cancel that ballot. This varies state by state. Some states say they have to count (ig Hawaii, they counted the ballot from Obama’s grandma) some explicitly say they need to be cancelled. Majority are silent but imply these ballot should count. And then there is logistics. Once the processing takes out the inner envelope, this is equivalent to the ballot already in the box. It is anonymous and impossible to be singled out anymore, even after that they found out the voters death before EDay.
Wisconsin requires cancellation of the mail ballot, if the authority knows the death before the election day, and the ballot has not been taken out, into the pile yet.
Sorry to hear this. 51 is way too young to go.