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If he died on Nov. 5th, would they invalidate his vote?
Up until the 1880s pretty much all Americans ballots weren't private. Some states still technically aren't private.
America isn't a true democracy anyway with its Gerrymandering, two party system, and registration to vote.
Voting registration isn't anti-democratic if it's very easy, like it is here in Australia. It's done online (and other methods) and very painless. If you don't move, you never need to update your registration.
And in actual democracies you're registered automatically when turning voting age (usually 18) and gets updates automatically when moving. Obviously, when you have a monarch, you're not living in a true democracy.
Come to think of it, we have a system where we update our details and it updates it across all other government agencies (this is optional), but I don't think it automatically updates your voting registration.
Room for improvement.
Oh and yeah, fuck the queen.
Edit: yes, the queen specifically for presiding over the sacking of Whitlam
In any good democracy the government doesn't know where you moved to until you tell them. Hence the need.
They already know then they ask for taxes to be paid. Requirement for voter registration is voter suppression.
Aside from your needlessly hostile response — They can tell if you voted. Your ballot is linked to your name.
"if voted" is different from "voted for". In a true democracy it must not be traceable who someone voted for. It simply cannot be the case in a proper democracy that the people who voted for the opponent get punished for their vote after transfer of power.
The original question was whether legally they could toss his ballot if he died before Election Day. I think the state probably has the means to locate a ballot.