"Votes From the Dead to Count in Election"

[GreenPartyVoter]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - In what would be her last conscious act, 90-year-old Trixie Porter gripped a pen in her weak, trembling hand, checked the candidates of her choice and scrawled a squiggled signature on her absentee ballot.

Within an hour, the petite woman who had been suffering from heart problems lay back in her hospital bed, closed her eyes and never woke up. Her ballot arrived at her local elections board two days later, Oct. 5 - the day she died.

"We commented that day that it probably won't count," said daughter Cheryl McConnell. "But she went to her grave not knowing any different. It counted with her."

An untold number of ballots like Porter's will indeed be counted because of the haphazard and cumbersome process of enforcing laws in many states to weed out the absentee votes of those who die by Election Day.

http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20041031/D862J8C80.html?PG=home&SEC=news

[beyurslf]

1. it SHOULD count.

Ballots should count if they are alive when they CAST them, not when they count them. What if you vote on Nov. 2 and are hit by a bus walking out of the polling location? Your vote still counts even if you aren't alive when they count it!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Agreed

[deadparrot]

3. They shoud count it.