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Tribetime

(6,913 posts)
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 09:39 PM Oct 2024

Is Tuesday the day President Carter can cast his vote

I'm amazed at his strength, I've never heard of anyone in hospice so long especially at 100yrs....I bow down to you President Carter

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Is Tuesday the day President Carter can cast his vote (Original Post) Tribetime Oct 2024 OP
Yes, Tuesday is the first day of early voting. brer cat Oct 2024 #1
Just a thought as Bel would say BOSSHOG Oct 2024 #2
Trump can fill out the ballot but when he walks it over to the poll worker to scan, ... royable Oct 2024 #4
I hope if Harris wins Carter is alive to see it. Laffy Kat Oct 2024 #3
Seeing the President in such a state on his birthday with his family.... Mark.b2 Oct 2024 #5

brer cat

(27,180 posts)
1. Yes, Tuesday is the first day of early voting.
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 09:46 PM
Oct 2024

I assume he will be voting absentee, and there is no way to know if he has received his ballot. I don't know the dates for mailing & returning absentee. I used to vote by mail or drop box, but the mail service has gotten so slow I decided it was best to vote early in person.

BOSSHOG

(43,915 posts)
2. Just a thought as Bel would say
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 10:11 PM
Oct 2024

But if a former President who is not a convicted felon, rapist, scumbag hits the 100 year mark, a voting apparatus should be brought to him/her and they be allowed to vote in the comfort of whatever surroundings they may have. And the cameras should be rolling.

Another thought as Bel would say, if trump is a convicted felon can he vote or is that just one more wink and a nod?

royable

(1,426 posts)
4. Trump can fill out the ballot but when he walks it over to the poll worker to scan, ...
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 10:49 PM
Oct 2024

...she rips off her rubber double-o-seven-esque rubber mask, revealing herself to be Nancy Pelosi, and she grabs the ballot at its top two corners and rips it elegantly down the middle. And in her best Soup Nazi voice, she says, "No Vote For You!"

Laffy Kat

(16,801 posts)
3. I hope if Harris wins Carter is alive to see it.
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 10:48 PM
Oct 2024

Of course, there's a flip side to that. If the psychopath comes out ahead, I hope President Carter is in a deep sleep by then and will never know.

Mark.b2

(663 posts)
5. Seeing the President in such a state on his birthday with his family....
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 12:04 AM
Oct 2024

brought some memories from my MIL passing back on February.

President Carter’s condition appeared much like my 87-year-old MIL’s shape in the past couple of weeks of her life. She slept lots and her mouth was similarly agape.

I spent a few nights on morphine duty, giving her a dose every two hours around-the-clock. I dont think she ever knew although her eyes would open when I gave her morphine. I’ve never been more04

We got her mail-in ballot and waited as long as we could to ger her to complete it. I tried a few times to get her ballot completed, but she never truly woke up. We ended up taking the blank ballot back to the clerk’s office a couple
days after the epection.

If I were solo in taking care of her, I’m pretty sure she would have possessed compos mentis enough to vote. But, I have a BIL, who is the #2 at my county’s sherrif’s department, and who is a man that I have almost 100% total respect for. He is ethical, almost to a fault. The topic came up a few times on filling out my MIL’s ballot. He was absolutely against our casting votes for her. He is a Democrat. I’ve not felt he snookered us. Politics aside, he’s a good man.

I really hope President Carter’s final days are filled with his mind being completely cognizant of his surroundings and with his family drawing super close.

Now, I‘m praying President Carter can survive until after the election.

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