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.

  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    21 days 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

    • leftytighty@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      20 days ago

      If a person is alive at the time of voting, it makes sense to me to count it. They might die after the election before inauguration too.

      Plus removing recently deceased people’s already cast votes opens up creative violent ways to help your team which I’m not a fan of either