USA - If you vote by mail, but die before Election Day, does your vote count? It depends on where you lived. Oregon counts ballots no matter what happens to the voter. So does California. But in South Dakota, if you die before the election, so does your vote. Increasingly popular mail-in ballots mean voters can now choose candidates up to 60 days before an election, raising new questions about an age-old phenomenon normally associated with trickery in places like Chicago: What should be done with the ballots of the recently dead? Laws in at least a dozen states are evenly split between tallying and dumping the votes. No one keeps records on how often such deaths occur. Yet in this year's contentious campaign, the right of every American to a counted ballot has become a rallying cry - even if the voter dies before the tallying starts. More... Magazine Lane - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Adagio Teas
