Eli Sanders at The Stranger wondered: Will Madelyn Dunham's vote count? She'd voted absentee some time ago. He got in touch with the Hawaii elections board, which told him:
Ms. Dunham's absentee mail ballot was received and reviewed under the Hawaii standards for processing absentee mail ballots… She was alive at that time. Her ballot will be opened tomorrow, and it will be counted in the same way that all absentee voters would be treated under our law.
That is, she was alive when the ballot was received and reviewed by the state, so this is not a proverbial case of voting from beyond the grave. Her vote will count. That's a silver lining I suppose.
