if you vote early or by mail, but then die before election day, does/should your vote count?
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@interfluidity Isn't that mainly a thing of practicality?
Since you cannot determine who cast the vote as long as anonymity is given, you'd have to give up anonymity to do this. I'd say that would be an unacceptable price.
@interfluidity Ah, that makes sense.
In that case, i guess it comes down to comparing the effort to the expected gain in precision. Compared to people with for example dementia voting or intentional voter fraud, of course. Can't say what i think without comparison :-)
@admitsWrongIfProven if you really wanted to, you could hold early drop-off/mail-in votes in their envelopes until election day, check the envelopes against recent death certificates, and throw away the (unopened) envelopes from voters who died. drop-off/mail-in votes are typically anonymous on the inside, but the outer envelope is identified and signed, so the voter can be checked against the voter roll (both as a valid voter, and to prevent multiple votes).