He voted while he was alive. What happens after that doesn’t matter…his legitimate vote has been cast.
Now, if he votes in the 2012 election, then we have a problem.
How is this generally validated for any other absentee ballot? I assume a signature, or something similar, is provided on the ballot, which can be used for authentication.
I don’t know if Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich has any kind of inside source, but in today’s article she wrote,
Maybe she just heard the same NPR story I did.