Apathy Curve: Posthumous Polling

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Thursday, April 09, 2009

Posthumous Polling

Vote:

A 64-year-old widower was charged Wednesday with casting an absentee ballot for his dead wife, which he said was fulfilling her dying wish to vote in the presidential election.

"She would not have wanted me to do this," Wroblewski said of his wife. "If she were alive, I'd be living in a hotel for a week for doing this."

But... you just said... uh...

/facepalm

That should have given you a pretty clear indication for whom the vote was cast -- but let's be explicit, shall we?

Jacqueline Wroblewski was diagnosed with lung cancer in February 2008. Although gravely ill, she voted in the primary for Barack Obama, according to her husband.

What a surprise.

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