Okay, One More Old Person Votes for Obama Story

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Aunt B.

She hung on long enough to vote for Obama.

Filed under: America how can I write a holy litany in your silly moo

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8 Responses

  1. Dora Fitzgerald, Politics And Emotion – Newscoma, on October 30th, 2008 at 11:59 am Said:

    [...] Aunt B. wrote about a couple of things that made me do that crazy thing called introspection and the like so I’d write about it here. She points to a story about an elderly woman who voted just moments before she died. [...]

  2. jim voorhies, on October 30th, 2008 at 12:48 pm Said:

    And according to a comment at the news site linked to at the start of this story, because she wasn’t alive on election day, her vote will probably be invalidated. The election commission is responsible for removing voters from the rolls who weren’t qualified to vote on election day next Tuesday and death os one reason for removing them.

    This isn’t Chicago, so the dead can’t vote. That’s the saddest part of this.

  3. GoldnI, on October 30th, 2008 at 1:03 pm Said:

    I posted this up on dKos, and someone in the comments apparently called the South Carolina Board of Elections, who said it would count.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/30/142041/20/853/646978

  4. dolphin, on October 30th, 2008 at 1:14 pm Said:

    Obviously it’s different state to state, but in most states you can’t be purged from the voter registry within a certain time period before the election (most places it’s 2-3 weeks).

  5. Mr. Mack, on October 30th, 2008 at 6:19 pm Said:

    The important thing for her was the act of voting, she of course would never know that it might not count.

  6. Aunt B., on October 30th, 2008 at 9:14 pm Said:

    That assumes there’s nothing left of her now to know.

    This time of year I’m much less inclined to make that assumption.

  7. jim voorhies, on October 31st, 2008 at 7:00 am Said:

    cool. it was a shame to read that it might not count.

  8. ripley, on October 31st, 2008 at 1:52 pm Said:

    here’s another one.. or rather a charming blog

    http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/

    (unless you already knew of them and I missed it?)

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