Plains: Jimmy Carter cast his vote in the 2024 election on Wednesday. The former president voted by mail, the Carter Center confirmed in a statement. It happened just two weeks after Carter celebrated his 100th birthday on Oct. 1 at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he has been living in hospice care.
His son Chip Carter said before the family meeting that his father was very aware of this election. “He’s plugged in,” Chip Carter told The Associated Press. “Two months ago I asked him if he was trying to live to be 100 and he said, ‘No, I’m trying to live to vote for Kamala Harris.’”
The Carter Center’s brief statement said it had no further details to share. Georgia’s registered voters have been turning out in record numbers since early voting began Tuesday. Nearly 4,60,000 had voted in person or absentee as of Wednesday afternoon, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said.
Carter’s vote should count even if he is no longer alive by Election Day on November 5. Robert Sinners, a spokesman for the secretary of state’s office, noted that Georgia election rules state that when local election officials receive an absentee ballot “it will be considered to have been voted at that time.”
Rules vary by state on whether early votes still count if the people who cast them die before Election Day. The issue took on greater importance in 2020, when COVID-19 deaths were skyrocketing.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Carter, who has lived longer than any American president in history, celebrated his 100th birthday on October 1. Carter, a Democrat, served a single term as president from January 1977 to January 1981. His decades of humanitarian work after leaving office, including promoting human rights and alleviating poverty in countries around the world earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
His birthday, which comes 19 months after he entered hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, is marked by the broadcast of a tribute concert by country, rock and gospel music stars taped at Atlanta’s Fox Theater on last month. The concert raised more than $1 million for the international programs of the Carter Center, which he founded with his wife, Rosalynn Carter. The former president plans to tune into the concert on Georgia Public Broadcasting, according to his grandson Jason Carter.
(With contributions from the agency)
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