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It would've been funny if immediately after casting his vote he dissolved into a beautiful light
He disappears in a flash of light. In his wake, he leaves an affordable housing complex behind.
Also, a lifetime supply of peanuts to all residents who aren't allergic 🥜
Reminds me of a picture book I had as a kid, except instead of Jimmy Carter it was a turtle
Blue lightning as Sam Beckett leaps away to the next problem he has to fix.
inb4 he dies of a heart attack immediately after casting his vote
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.
I thought his goal was peace in Palestine not apartheid, and definitely not genocide.
Hence not voting for the lunatic wannabe despot.
Harris hasn't come out in disagreement with Biden's policy over the last year.
Which is why he didnt vote for the guy Israel named a settlement after
Who does Blinken work for?
the security of Israel must be guaranteed
The title is provocative, but the plan inside is bothsidesism.
And let's hope he lives to see her elected.
Even better if he sees Trump in prison.
And it’s a Georgia vote so it matters.
This is actually an interesting legal edge case. What happens if someone casts an absentee ballot, but then dies before election day? It turns out that it's actually very state-specific. Half of states have no provisions for how such a case is handled. Of those that address it, some explicitly allow the votes to be counted, and some explicitly prohibit these votes to be counted.
https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/counting-absentee-ballots-after-a-voter-dies
It's a pretty interesting bit of legal trivia. The whole principle of absentee ballots is that you are not really casting your vote 'early.' It's not like they publish the results of absentee ballots ahead of time. Really you're effectively saying, "I can't make it on election day." An argument can be made that they shouldn't be counted. Why should someone who happens to get a ballot in early and dies be able to have their vote counted, but someone who was planning to vote on election day, but died in the interim, won't have it counted? On the other hand, a good argument can be made that we shouldn't punish those who plan ahead, and as a general rule we just accept the ballots out of respect for the recently deceased. It's interesting that the states that count them or don't are distributed fairly randomly across regions and the political spectrum; it's not really a partisan thing.
But it is a bit of legal trivial that yes, in some states, the dead are literally allowed to vote under certain very specific circumstances.
All votes matter.
the electoral college used by slave states to pad their votes with the 3/5ths compromise would like to have a word with you.
Yes, but some much more than others.
All votes should matter. Thanks to gerrymandering and the electoral college rules, not a lot actually do
Specifically for president. They absolutely matter for local elections.
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No president is perfect. Some are much worse or much better than others. The US would greatly benefit from having more Jimmy Carters as president.
My dad always said Jimmy Carter was too good of a man to be a good president.
Remember when there was a crisis at a nuclear power plant, and the president rushed to the scene...to help, because he's a qualified nuclear engineer? I don't, I wasn't born yet when that happened.
I've already come to view Jimmy Carter as an unappreciated rockstar, and I didn't even know this story. I just Googled it for those interested. It doesn't seem like it was when he was president, but still completely badass/downright heroic.
I wasn't either. But when I heard the story I wished we would have another president who cared like that.
And was an engineer or someone else who has had a job that actually matters.
Honestly I feel like career politicians are part of the problem. We need people who have done other jobs and have experience outside of political circles. No more actors or reality stars though, I don't think this country could survive more of those lol.
It's not all roses and rainbows: Thatcher was a chemical engineer, and the only thing she engineered while in power was the downfall of England as a world power.
Every time I am reminded that she was a chemical engineer, I picture Thatcher as a more-demure-yet-viciously-effective Yzma.
Edit: And Mr. "Too Tall To Be A Bus Driver" John Major as a blond Kronk?! Oh yeah, it's all coming together.
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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?
in the battleground states: likely not because you need sufficient justification for going absentee/mail; something that isn't common to the other states.
Yea. Not only that, when you hear about "dead people voting", this is often the explanation.
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.
Also the thousands of people who die on election day, a non-zero number of which voted earlier that day.
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