Hat tip: Fark:
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A 61-year-old woman has admitted that she submitted a request to the Lancaster County Election Office for an absentee ballot in her late mother’s name. But Carolea Adams said she just wanted the ballot for a scrapbook of her mother, Marguerite Adams.
Adams was putting the scrapbook together when a notice to request an absentee ballot arrived for her mother.
Adams told the Lincoln Journal Star that she thought, “Since voting for Mummy was such an important thing, I’ll send it back through and get her ballot back with her name on it, and I’ll keep it for her scrapbook of materials I’m putting together.
“I had no intent of voting on her ballot,” she said. “I simply wanted the ballot and was going to put it in her scrapbook.”
Well, that explains all those deceased voters we keep getting absentee ballot requests for here in Chicago. Their relatives are just making scrapbooks. Lots and lots of scrapbooks.
Ummm, wonder how many elections she’s gotten souvenir ballots for her mom?