Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US president to reach the milestone.

Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent the past 19 months in hospice care in his home state of Georgia.

But the former peanut farmer, who first entered politics in the 1960s as a state senator, is “emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving,” his grandson, Jason, said in September.

And the centenarian still has political ambitions: “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris” in November’s election, the humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient said, according to his grandson.

  • Flying Squid
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    312 months ago

    Early voting in Georgia is October 15. I assume he is going to vote as early as he can.

    • FuglyDuck
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      112 months ago

      does it count if you die before the actual election?

      In any case, I got my ballot last Saturday here. (in MN. I’m signed up for it to be automatic… which is super easy to do. Just go through the online registration at the MN secretary of state page, and make sure to tick the box for ‘automatically send ballots for mail in voting’ or whatever.)

      Everyone- Check your voting status here,. remember, Trump loses if we vote. Maybe we can convince Kamal to paint the White house Tiedye or something.