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By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter In Washington, D.C. and Rachel Bowman For Dailymail.Com
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326 View commentsFormer President Jimmy Carter voted this week for likely the last time in his life on Wednesday.
The 100-year-old cast his ballot in the 2024 presidential election for Vice President Kamala Harris, his family revealed.
Carter told family members that he was only trying to make it to his 100th birthday in October so he could also vote for Harris to become the first female President of the United States.
The former Democratic president's ballot for the VP's promotion was deposited in the drop box at Sumter County Courthouse near Plains, Georgia, where Carter has remained in at-home hospice care since February 2023.
Carter's grandson Jason Carter and son Chip Carter told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that their family's patriarch 'feels good' and that he 'absolutely' voted for Harris.
Jimmy Carter told his family he was hoping to live long enough to vote in this election for Vice President Kamala Harris. The former president turned 100 on October 1 – nearly two years after entering at-home hospice care
'He's never voted for a Republican in his life,' Chip added.
The longest-living president's son said his wife Becky dropped off the ballot on his father's behalf on Wednesday.
'It was a good morning for him and good for us that he got it done,' Chip said.
Early voting began on Tuesday in Georgia and more than 300,000 people cast their ballots in the first 24 hours – more than double the turnout in 2020.
Carter said it was one of his final wishes to vote in the 2024 election.
Georgia is one of the seven key swing states in the 2024 race, and Donald Trump is dead set on winning it back after losing in the Peach State to Joe Biden in 2020.
Carter - who celebrated his 100th birthday on October 1 in Georgia - told his family he was hoping to live long enough to vote in this election.
'I'm only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,' Carter told Chip and Jason.
More than 300,000 voters cast ballots on first day of early voting in Georgia starting Tuesday
Polling numbers have been positive of late for Harris, with numbers suggesting she could improve on Biden's marginal victory in the Peach State four years ago.
A Georgia judge on Tuesday temporarily halted a new rule requiring poll workers to hand count ballots in the November 5 election, in a defeat for Donald Trump, whose Republican allies pushed the change after he lost the battleground state in 2020.
'Election superintendents in Georgia have a mandatory fixed obligation to certify election results,' Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said in the filing obtained by CNN.
'Consequently, no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.'
Carter - the first American president to reach the century mark - was able to watch a flyover of four F-18 jets and several vintage planes that graced the skies over Plains, Georgia as part of the town's celebrations to celebrate his special day, per CBS News.
Jason Carter said his grandfather is 'more alert and interested in politics and the war in Gaza.'
Carter's daughter-in-law delivered his ballot to a drop box at the Sumter County Courthouse near Plains, Georgia on Wednesday
Carter was taken into hospice care in February 2023, just a few months before hisbeloved wife of 77-years, Rosalynn, died in November 2023
'He's doing okay,' Jason said of the former president just two weeks before he turned 100.
'I mean he's been in hospice for over 19 months now and he has really physically diminished and can't do much on his own, but he is emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving.'
He had previously said that the 39th president was 'no longer awake every day' while receiving hospice care.
The Democrat is the oldest living ex-president and was in office from 1977 to 1981.
His family announced he had been taken into hospice care in February 2023 and many assumed this meant he was near death.
He has been receiving end of life care at his home in Plains for 17 months, including through mourning the death of his beloved wife of 77-years, Rosalynn.
The former president was last seen at her funeral in Georgia in November last year.
Rosalynn Carter died on November 19 at the age of 96. She and Carter were the longest married presidential couple.
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