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Jimmy Carter, former US president, turns 100

www.bbc.com Jimmy Carter, former US president, turns 100

There was a flyover of jets in his hometown, and 100 people became US citizens at a naturalisation ceremony in his honour.

Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US president to reach the milestone.

Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent the past 19 months in hospice care in his home state of Georgia.

But the former peanut farmer, who first entered politics in the 1960s as a state senator, is "emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving," his grandson, Jason, said in September.

And the centenarian still has political ambitions: "I'm only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris" in November's election, the humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient said, according to his grandson.

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he made it!!
- Hopefully he makes it a couple more months! so he can vote for Kamala! (maybe even attend her inauguration? Maybe Bernie can get the school teacher lady to make him a pair of those cozy mittens....)
  
  Early voting in Georgia is October 15. I assume he is going to vote as early as he can.
  
  does it count if you die before the actual election?
  In any case, I got my ballot last Saturday here. (in MN. I'm signed up for it to be automatic... which is super easy to do. Just go through the online registration at the MN secretary of state page, and make sure to tick the box for 'automatically send ballots for mail in voting' or whatever.)
  Everyone- Check your voting status here,. remember, Trump loses if we vote. Maybe we can convince Kamal to paint the White house Tiedye or something.
  
  does it count if you die before the actual election?
  I believe it does, yes. Once the ballot is cast, it's counted.
  You could potentially die in a car crash after leaving the polling place on election day.
  
  well, still don't want him to die.... but...uh.... up to him, I suppose. After the fifteenth...
  
  You never know. He could vote again in four years.
  
  Two more weeks, buddy. You can do it!
  
  Don't you put that bad juju on Jimmy Carter
  
  No juju. I don't think Jimmy is going to be voting at the polling place. Especially when he doesn't have to.
  
  https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/elections-verify/what-happens-if-someone-votes-early-but-dies-before-election-day/536-072041c7-5bb0-4e54-8418-5e98802c4dc1
  Varies by state. Georgia is one of several states without a clear rule. At any rate, it seems to be constrained by practicality. If they already opened the envelope to count it, it’s hard to undo it.

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