[EL] deaths after voting by mail

[Larry Levine]

OK. Let's continue the thought. You are in the military, stationed overseas.
You get your ballot 60 days before the election, mark it and mail it in.
Then the unthinkable happens. Would we strip one of the honored dead of his
or her right to vote under these circumstances. And as far as the matter of
there being enough ballots cast by people who subsequently die to make a
difference, what ever happened to "every vote counts"? We've seen plenty of
elections decided by one or two votes. And in the quest for a two-thirds
majority on some ballot measures . 

Another wrinkle: a statute passes in one house of the legislature by one
vote and goes on to the other house. Then one of the affirmative voters in
the first house dies before the bill passes the second house and is signed
into law.

As you say - it's Friday.

Larry

 

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[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Doug
Hess
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 8:54 AM
To: Election Law
Subject: [EL] deaths after voting by mail

 

 

Let's say you vote by mail and then kick the bucket before ballots are
counted or before election day. Assuming election officials notice this
about you and spot your ballot, do laws or regulations address counting that
ballot? I assume that if you were eligible to vote when you did, that dieing
before ballots are counted doesn't matter.  

 

If an election is entirely by mail and you can get ballots 30 days in
advance (is that standard?), just how many adults go six feet under in that
period. I'm wondering--for Friday amusement partially--if the number or
percentage is enough that the dead can determine an outcome? 


Doug

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