Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter cast his ballot in the U.S. election on Wednesday, October 16, just fifteen days after turning 100.
This is in fulfilling an earlier declared wish to live long
enough to vote for Kamala Harris.
The former Democratic leader "voted by mail,"
according to the Carter Center, the nonprofit he founded after he left the
White House in 1981 to pursue his vision of world diplomacy.
Though election Day is November 5, Carter took advantage of
early voting in his home state of Georgia, where he is receiving hospice care.
Carter had told his family earlier this year that living
long enough to vote for Harris and help defeat her Republican rival, Donald
Trump, was more important to him than his centennial, according to
the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.
He reached both milestones.
More than 420,000 people have cast their ballot since early
voting began Tuesday, October 15, in Georgia, according to Gabriel Sterling, a
state election official who posted the figures at midday.
Carter, a one-term president, has been receiving end-of-life
care in his hometown of Plains in Georgia since February last year.
Carter, a one-time peanut farmer who worked his way to the
White House, is the first former U.S. president to reach the 100-year mark.
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