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sonias Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-08 07:49 PM
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Determined Texas woman, 92, votes in ambulance (for Obama)
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Determined Texas woman, 92, votes in ambulance
SAN ANTONIO – Betty Owen is 92 and after a stroke four years ago, needs a feeding tube and can't walk. But she was determined not to miss Tuesday's election. She arrived at her polling place on a gurney in an ambulance, where an election judge and support worker climbed aboard with an electronic voting machine and let her cast her ballot.

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Owen, a Marine Corps veteran who served in World War II, cast her first ballot for Wendell Willkie, a Republican running against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940.

She became a Democrat after voting for John Kennedy in 1960. She cast a straight Democratic ballot Tuesday.


GOBAMA! :bounce::bounce::bounce:

Sonia
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Larry L. Burks Donating Member (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-08 08:27 PM
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1.  From beyond the grave
Now this is what I like to see.

After all the dirty things that they have did to America.

It seems like there should be more people willing to claw their way back up out of the grave and make their way to the polls and vote.

So they could say. " I and i a long was the one that cast the lone vote that pushed Obama over the top.

The polls in Texas should be closed by now.

And now. It's the waiting game.

I'm not getting any younger.

I pray to God. Help me hang on tonight. I want to be an eye witness to history. Once more.

Let the good guys win this one.

May Justice Prevail.

Let Freedom Ring.

God Bless America.

And.

Gooooooood Bless Texas.

Larry L. Burks
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