One week after 100th birthday, Jimmy Carter votes for Kamala Harris in U.S. presidential poll
Former President Jimmy Carter has voted in the 2024 election, the Carter Center confirmed.
Carter, the oldest living president, voted by mail on Wednesday, according to a statement from the Carter Center.
Jason Carter, the chairman of the organization and the former president’s grandson, said in a text message on Wednesday that his grandfather’s ballot had been deposited at a drop box at the Sumter County Courthouse near his hometown of Plains in battleground Georgia.
Jason Carter told ABC News earlier this week that the former president planned on voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in the “next couple of days.”
“It’s going to be the next couple days; the absentee ballots have gone out,” Jason Carter said.
Carter recently celebrated his 100th birthday. As he neared the milestone, his family said he was trying to live until he could vote for Harris.
Carter entered hospice care in early 2023 amid health challenges. Last year, he made a rare public appearance when he attended a memorial service for his late wife, Rosalynn Carter.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was the first to report the news of Carter’s vote.
