evidence: Deadline: Ballots must be inserted into a drop box by 8 p.m. on Election Day to be counted. [...] If a living voter casts an absentee ballot prior to Election Day and the clerk learns they have died before the ballot is tabulated, the deceased voter’s ballot is rejected and will not be counted. This procedure regularly results in the rejection of thousands of ballots during statewide and federal elections. There are safeguards in place to ensure an absentee ballot cannot be voted on behalf of another individual (deceased or otherwise), including a signature match performed on the signed absentee ballot envelope.