If you mail in your ballot while you are alive in September

[WhiteTara]

but die before Nov 3rd, does it still count?

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Why wouldn't it?

[hlthe2b]

2. Depends on the state... Most will count it, but the vote can be challenged.

On a practical level it is nearly impossible for a state to separate those votes received by mail or early voting that might reflect a voter recently deceased.


This national group tracks such changes to election law:
https://www.ncsl.org/Documents/Elections/The_Canvass_October_2015_63.pdf

[magicarpet]

3. Do you feel ill ?

A friend was asking ?

[WhiteTara]

9. No, no! It just occurred to me

that with early voting all those people who are mingling about and vote R absentee, we might have more trouble than if they die before voting. Crass perhaps, but it did go through my mind. And I guess it would be a warning to us to vote early too.

[unblock]

4. If you die, you have a duty to inform the Secretary of State so they can void your ballot

Just kidding.

As a practical matter, this doesn't get checked.

Some states may have a law that says you have to be alive on Election Day. In those states, if someone figures out you died before Election Day and decides to challenge your ballot, then I suppose it could be kicked out.

Never heard of this actually happening, but Donnie's goons might well be looking into it....

[WhiteTara]

10. I thought that might be the case

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Someone would have to be both paying attention to who dies

in September, October, and early November, and have a way of knowing that you mailed in a ballot. Perhaps each state's Secretary of State, or whoever handles the elections in the state, could do that, but somehow I suspect they have a lot better things to do.

[Gothmog]

6. In Texas the answer is yes

WE had this happen in 2018

[gopiscrap]

7. In Washington State it does

[LisaL]

8. That's not something I am concerned with.

[WhiteTara]

11. okay