Jimmy Carter a former US president whos now 100 years old‚ sent his vote for the 2024 election by mail on 10/16/24. The Carter Center confirmed this but didnt give more details. This happened just two weeks after his 100th birthday celebration at his home in Plains Georgia where heʼs getting hospice care.
Chip Carter‚ his son told reporters before the family get-together that his dad was really focused on this election. “Heʼs plugged in‚“ Chip said. “I asked him two months ago if he was trying to live to be 100‚ and he said‚ ʼNo Im trying to live to vote for Kamala Harrisʼ“
Georgiaʼs registered voters are showing up in big numbers since early voting started yesterday. By this afternoon almost 460‚000 people had voted in-person or sent absentee ballots according to Brad Raffensperger (Secretary of State)
Carters vote will count even if heʼs not alive on Election Day (11/5/24). Robert Sinners‚ who speaks for the secretary of states office‚ pointed out that Georgia election rules say when an absentee ballot is received by local election officials “it shall be deemed to have been voted then and there“
Different states have different rules about whether early votes still count if the people who cast them die before Election Day. This became a bigger issue about four years ago‚ when COVID-19 deaths were really high
No‚ Iʼm trying to live to vote for Kamala Harris
The story was fixed to show the first two days of early voting in Georgia were Tuesday and Wednesday not Monday and Tuesday