2020 US election - It Came from Washington DC

[DHBirr]

Y'know that line about crawling over broken glass to vote?  A man in Michigan was determined to live long enough to cast an early ballot, expecting he wouldn't make it to 3 November.

And then...

...Williams took a long time filling out his ballot. His son, who drove, remembers he was very, very careful to fill the squares fully to ensure it would be counted.

Williams wanted to make the 15-foot walk himself, rather than have one of his kids drop off the ballot. He had lost 40 pounds. But he insisted on trying.

“He was really happy to tell people he had lived long enough to vote,” David remembered.

He died eight days later.

After he was gone, Williams’s family learned his final vote would not be counted under Michigan law. Votes are tallied on Election Day in the state, not as they arrive. Because Williams died before Election Day, his vote would be invalidated. About 850 such ballots had been rejected for the same reason during Michigan’s primary election in August, according to the secretary of state’s office.

And I'm sure there are StormTrumpers laughing about this.

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