Nearing his 100th birthday and in hospice care since February 2023, the former president Jimmy Carter reportedly has one goal: voting for Kamala Harris against Donald Trump.
“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son Chip this week, as his grandson Jason Carter recounted to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Harris, Carter’s fellow Democrat, will face the Republican Trump for the presidency on 5 November. Carter’s 100th birthday will fall on 1 October.
A Democrat who was in the White House from 1977 to 1981, Carter is the oldest living president. In ill health for several years, his family announced that he entered hospice care on 18 February 2023. Many took that announcement to mean Carter was near the end of his life.
Depends on the state.
Some states interpret that a submitted absentee ballot has been cast, and you can’t “un-vote”, not least because it’s anonymous and so there’s no way to know.
If you vote in person, drop your ballot in the box and then keel over, they don’t fish your ballot out of the box.
Other states interpret a submitted ballot as having been filled out and collected, but not yet cast. They’re usually kept in the sealed envelope with voter identification on them until they’re opened and anonymously counted when voting begins. They check names against the voter registry as they process them, and there’s a process for double and triple checking things to ensure there’s been no error (where I am they try and call you or otherwise get in touch with you, and if there’s any doubt your ballot becomes provisional so they can dig in if it’s close enough to matter).
If you vote in person, and keel over before putting your ballot in the box, they don’t pick your ballot up and drop it in for you.
It looks like Georgia falls into that first category.
It’s a vanishingly small edge case so it doesn’t get tested that often.