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Catbird

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1. States differ

Reply to rgbecker (Original post)

Sun Jan 24, 2021, 10:37 PM

Jan 2021

Some states, like South Carolina, allow votes of dead people to count as long as the person was still alive when it was cast. My late husband cast an absentee vote for Obama before he passed on November 1, 2008. I was pleased [and I'm sure he would have been] that it counted.

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About dead people voting. [View all] rgbecker Jan 2021 OP

States differ Catbird Jan 2021 #1

Odds are, votes of those who died were closely split. louis-t Jan 2021 #2

Excellent point keithbvadu2 Jan 2021 #6

Repubs like to take insignificant anecdotal occurances and blow them all out of proportion to Liberal In Texas Jan 2021 #3

Stupid law. If you voted legally, should not matter that you later died. Easy enough fix. niyad Jan 2021 #4

I know of a dying man who made a point of voting for Trump before he died. KentuckyWoman Jan 2021 #5