Former President Jimmy Carter casts his early ballot vote in Georgia
This story was updated on Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 3:54 p.m.
The Carter Center said Wednesday that former President Jimmy Carter officially cast his election ballot.
“The Carter Center can confirm that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter voted by mail today, Oct. 16, 2024,” they wrote in a statement.
No further details were made available.
Carter has been in hospice care in his hometown Plains since 2023. He turned 100 earlier this month.
Carter has told family that he looked forward to voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.
“He was excited to turn 100 but he’s more excited to cast his ballot for Vice President Harris,” Carter’s grandson Jason Carter told WABE in September. “And I think he’s ready to turn the page on Donald Trump like many of the rest of us.”
“It would be an incredible story at the end of his 100-year life … to have grown up in the segregated South and for one of his last political acts to be helping to elect a Black woman as a president,” Jason Carter added.
Early voting began in the state of Georgia on Tuesday and will continue until Friday, Nov. 1
Georgia voters over 300,000 ballots on Tuesday, surpassing all records on any single day of early voting.
The state is considered one of several swing states that will determine whether or not Harris or former President Donald Trump will win the race for president.
WABE’s Rahul Bali contributed to this report.
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