Former President Jimmy Carter cast his ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday, weeks after turning 100 years old.
Carter, the oldest living president, voted by mail in the Peach State, the Carter Center confirmed, a day after in-person early voting began in the state. The vote fulfills one of the former president’s last wishes, according to his family.
The former president’s grandson, Jason Carter, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in August that Jimmy Carter had told his son, Chip Carter, that he was “only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris.”
Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, has been a critic of Harris’s opponent, former President Donald Trump, falsely claiming in 2019 that Trump lost the 2016 election. He alleged Trump “was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,” repeating unfounded claims regarding the legitimacy of the 2016 election.
Carter was elected president in 1976 but saw his presidency marred by continuing stagflation and the Iran hostage crisis. He lost his reelection bid in a landslide to Ronald Reagan in 1980.
The former president became the first former commander in chief to reach 100 years old on Oct. 1, less than a year after his wife Rosalynn Carter died at the age of 96 in November 2023. He has been in hospice care since February 2023.
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In recent years Carter has made few public appearances, including at his wife Rosalynn’s funeral service and briefly during celebrations for his 100th birthday earlier this month.
Georgia does not have a law regarding what happens if a voter dies before Election Day after casting an absentee ballot, but WSBTV reported in 2020 that the state still counts the vote due to privacy rules making it difficult to remove the ballot once it is cast.