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The 39th president, who entered hospice care in February 2023, submitted an absentee ballot, according to a grandson. His family said he had been eager to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.

The longest-lived president in American history has voted again.

Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 on Oct. 1 and has been in hospice care since February 2023, submitted his absentee ballot on Wednesday, according to Jason Carter, the former president’s grandson.

Jason Carter, the chairman of the Carter Center, said in a text message on Wednesday that his grandfather’s ballot had been deposited at a drop box at a courthouse in Americus, Ga. In Georgia, a relative may return a completed absentee ballot for a voter.

For weeks, according to the Carter family, the former president was privately playing down becoming a centenarian. Instead, Mr. Carter’s relatives said, he was most eager about voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Under Georgia law, Oct. 7 was the first day that county registrars could distribute domestic absentee ballots. Elections officials began mailing military and overseas ballots last month. Georgia’s in-person early voting period began on Tuesday, and regulators reported record turnout.

Elections officials said they were not certain when Mr. Carter, who spent many days of his post-presidency on Carter Center election-monitoring missions around the world, first cast a ballot of his own. But in 1943, Georgia became the first state to lower its voting age to 18; when Georgia voters decided to amend the state Constitution, Mr. Carter was months away from his 19th birthday.

Soon enough, though, he was in elected office himself. In 1962, he won a seat in the State Senate, after a chaotic scandal in which Mr. Carter’s opponent initially benefited from a ballot-stuffing scheme. (Decades later, Mr. Carter would recall that he was such an unknown then that a Georgia newspaper identified him as “Jerry Carter from Plains.”)

Mr. Carter cited the episode as a reason that he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, who died last year, founded the Carter Center, a nongovernmental organization, after they left the White House in 1981. But before his defeat by Ronald Reagan, one of Mr. Carter’s earliest lobbying efforts as president focused on his ideas about voter registration and campaign finance.

State records show that Mr. Carter has been an especially reliable voter as a former president. He has routinely cast ballots in general elections, of course, but has also been a fixture of primary runoffs and special elections. For more than a decade, he has exclusively voted by mail in the elections tracked by the state.

Mr. Carter still lives in Plains — the tidy city in southwest Georgia that he turned into an outpost of presidential politics nearly a half-century ago — and votes in Sumter County, where plenty of people still know him as “Mr. Jimmy.” A Republican presidential nominee last carried Sumter in 2004, when George W. Bush won it by 126 votes.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a 586-vote margin of victory there in 2020.

The margins have come to matter in Georgia, one of the most closely contested states in presidential elections. Had Mr. Carter gotten his way in the 1970s, though, they would matter less: He recommended abolishing the Electoral College.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/us/jimmy-carter-votes-georgia.html?

This man is amazing and a true humanitarian, It’s awesome to see his goal accomplished! May he stay healthy and continue to have a next goal to see the first ever female president inaugurated.

God1000:
This man is amazing, and a true humanitarian. It’s awesome to see his goal accomplished! May he stay healthy and continue to have a next goal to see the first ever female president inaugurated.

Kamala will not win. Her support for abortion and her poor border policy are against her chances.

Sharingiscaring:
Kamala will not win. Her support for abortion and her poor border policy are against her chances.

she will win, it will happen


She's far better than the demagogue and convicted felon

As expected, he is part of the establishment.

Trust Americans! They are always passionate about their nation or country. Carter as a former president of the US wouldn't be an exception given his former position.

But in Nigeria, you see riff-raffs and touts flogging elderly people like Carter who refused to vote in a drug baron, certificate forger, bullion van and identity theft crook.

In Trump we trust!

Hmmmm

HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT

Noted.

Ok

God1000:
she will win, it will happen


She's far better than than the demagogue and convicted felon

Unfortunately, the real American voters care more about their border security than you care about Trump's misdemeanors. Meanwhile, if he's a convicted felon, why is the US law letting him run for office?

Trump must win!

Trump ejebego

Is Jimmy Carter sane enough to make a decision of whom to vote.
The children should have said they voted Kamala Harris on behalf of their 100yr father

Harris is winning... No doubt about it.

I love what Trump stands for, but his term in office encouraged white supremacists and racism. As a black man, I cannot imagine voting for a regime that encourages discrimination of black people. That's all!

..if fit were biden trump would have gotten better chance.

But with Harris it will be slim margin for either side.

If Dem like make Benjamin Franklin come cast vote, she would not go still win

Democratic doing all to win people’s votes with their rogue candidate.
How can a person on hospice in a vegetative state decide on who to vote for?
Well, it’s for Americans to decide.
Few Nigerians I’ve talked to can’t even decide between Harris and Trump.
Someone said it’s like Atiku and Tinubu situation.
I said I prefer Atiku to Tinubu.

Sharingiscaring:
Unfortunately, the real American voters care more about their border security than you care about Trump's misdemeanors. Meanwhile, if he's a convicted felon, why is the US law letting him run for office?

the real Americans don't like him, no sane American will vote for such an embarrassment

Say no to rainbow people.

richiemcgold:
That's Jimmy Carter and OBJ in Nigeria in 1977

🤔 .. how time flies

I think that picture was actually from Obasanjo's visit to the US, not the other way round... That looks like inside of the White House.
But he did visit Nigeria...

Edit: Nice to see you've added the second picture after I corrected you. 👀

Okay

God1000:
the real Americans don't like him

Rather, the immigrant Americans don't like him

Are we even sure he is aware he voted?

Ok

God1000:
The 39th president, who entered hospice care in February 2023, submitted an absentee ballot, according to a grandson. His family said he had been eager to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.



https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/us/jimmy-carter-votes-georgia.html?

Almighty God, grant unto me the same and more portion of Grace of longevity you granted to Former US President, Jimmy Carter.

santaclaws:
Harris is winning... No doubt about it.

I love what Trump stands for, but his term in office encouraged white supremacists and racism. As a black man, I cannot imagine voting for a regime that encourages discrimination of black people. That's all!

Maybe you’ve not been reading the news lately.
The same blacks that are saying they’ve been deceived enough by democrats and will vote Trump?
And that Obama’s govt was d worst for blacks

God1000:
she will win, it will happen


She's far better than the demagogue and convicted felon

Convicted by Biden courts. He's won already. America needs strong leadership.

Good. Donald trump will win