• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      it’s georgia so i’m expecting them to invalidate it somehow and probably after he’s died so that no one can fight it.

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        If he’s running again in 52 years, then I’ll have serious questions about what I know about the fundamental rules of life on this planet, so maybe he should be president again at that point.

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    7 days ago

    I hate this type of headline. He is still living (hopefully), but you are not sure.

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      I hate this type of headline. He is still living (hopefully), but you are not sure.

      You didn’t even care to click on that link. He cast the vote already.

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    7 days ago

    I was actually wondering about this, since a close relative of mine probably won’t make it to election day: if you legally cast your ballot (mail in or absentee), but die before Election Day, does your vote still count?

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      Yea. Not only that, when you hear about “dead people voting”, this is often the explanation.

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        I would love to know the winners of past elections counting only the votes of dead people.

        Wouldn’t be surprised if Harris wins in the demography this time around. The greatest generation knows what it means to defeat fascists. But then again there are probably more boomers and anti vaxers dying these days.

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        The other big chunk is people who have the same or a similar name. Like “It says here David Jones died five years ago, but David Jones voted today. Suspicious?” “Dude, I’m David Jones Jr. The David Jones who died was my dad, David Jones Sr. Dick.” Or whatever.

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          I am a IIIrd, the third person down my male line with the same first, middle, and last name

          I’m the 5th with our exact initials, too

          One time, while applying for college, I was told I’d already used my GI bill allotment back in '55. Uh… That was grandpa, and he died over 30 years before I was born, how did you mix us up?!?!

          (Also, I was never in the military and this was entirely irrelevant to me they just brought it up as something I couldn’t do)

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        Also the thousands of people who die on election day, a non-zero number of which voted earlier that day.

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      Depends on the state. Looks like Carter is registered in Georgia. According to an article from 2020 when Republicans were bald face lying that long dead people were voting a lot, someone from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office is quoted as saying secrecy rules don’t allow rejecting a ballot when a voter dies before Election Day.

      “You can’t go back and get that ballot back out. It’s just physically impossible, given the privacy rules in our state,”. May or may not still be accurate, or may have never been accurate, but that’s what the first article I found when searching says.