Dead people can vote in North Dakota

So apparently if you vote absentee, and then die before the election, most states throw out your vote. Twenty-seven ballots have been thrown out in Minnesota this year already. I’m not sure how I feel about this. Sure if a person died before the election they wouldn’t have been able to vote, but they weren’t dead when they voted. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth to know that people go through and throw out people’s votes. So if a soldier, fighting for our country, gets shot dead Monday, his vote no longer matters? That just doesn’t seem right to me. If a person voted legally, it should count in my book, and in North Dakota it does.