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.
Expect fuckery to happen this time. Suddenly, perfectly valid absentee ballots for Harris will suddenly be “uncertifiable” and “closer inspection must be made”.
Then “they wouldn’t have made a difference and we declare Trump the winner.”
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.
So if he votes August 19th,and dies the next day does the vote count?
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.
Expect fuckery to happen this time. Suddenly, perfectly valid absentee ballots for Harris will suddenly be “uncertifiable” and “closer inspection must be made”.
Then “they wouldn’t have made a difference and we declare Trump the winner.”
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.