If somebody votes absentee and then dies a day before the election and/or count, can the vote still be valid?
Curious if the votes of people who passed on can still be counted.
Curious if the votes of people who passed on can still be counted.
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Probably shouldn't be but would.
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Anonymous
Yes. Just like when a candidate dies just before an election and still wins. The vote was already cast and the ballot couldn't legally be changed that close before the election
The vote isn't supposed to count if the voter died several years before the election. But a lot of people get away with it anyway.
In fact, in the 1978 Chicago Mayoral Election, a number of political ads were sponsored by The Committee to Re-Elect Da Boss. They argued, quite reasonably, that with so many people voting for Mayor Richard J. Daley, after they died, it was unfair to make Daley give up the office just because he had died in 1976.
kristus412
The vote would count by the time the government had all the info to know the person was no longer living the results would have been announce.
Rick K
I'm sure nobody will check.
And I'm also pretty certain that a lot of dead people vote through absentee ballots. I would abolish absentee ballots for anyone who is not serving overseas in the military. Get your lazy backsides out there and vote!
And we should have to provide legal identification when we vote, too. The argument that poor people don't have any identification is ridiculous!
JoJo
Absolutely! The vote can be counted because the vote has already been cast. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.