Breaking News: Sen. Barack Obama’s grandmother has passed away.

Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel

Then they may be knowingly committing election fraud. In lots of states she's not an eligible voter if she's dead on election day and if the elections officials are aware of that (which everyone in the country is now) then her vote should be disqualified when they start to open and tally the absentee ballots.

I know it's mean sounding and isn't something I would have brought up, but it is the law in many states (can't find anything about HI in particular).

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalra...-grandm-1.html

Hawaii will count her absentee ballot.

I doubt our elections official would go on the record and say that they will count it if they knew they were committing voter fraud.

[CrackerBarrel]

Originally Posted by OTW

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalra...-grandm-1.html

Hawaii will count her absentee ballot.

I doubt our elections official would go on the record and say that they will count it if they knew they were committing voter fraud.

Well I dare say that he did just that (go on the record saying they are breaking election law, that is). I did some legal research and looked at Hawaii's statutes and Hawaii Revised Statutes § 15-13 addresses "Death of voter prior to opening of polls" and says:

Originally Posted by Hawaii Revised Statutes § 15-13

Whenever sufficient proof is shown to the clerk that an absentee voter who has returned the voter's return envelope has died prior to the opening of the polls on the date of election, the voter's ballot shall be deemed invalid and disposed of pursuant to section 11-154. The casting of any such ballot shall not invalidate the election.