Ambulance becomes polling place for elderly woman

[tblue37]

This one will choke you up!

http://www.kdbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=9291947&nav=menu608_2_3

Associated Press - November 4, 2008 4:15 PM ET

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - 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 today's election.

She arrived at her San Antonio polling place on a gurney in an ambulance. An election judge and support worker climbed aboard with an electronic voting machine and let her cast her ballot. Her daughter arranged for the ambulance ride at the last minute after Owen failed to get an absentee ballot.

The San Antonio Express-News reports Owen is a Marine Corps veteran who served in World War II. She 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 today.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. This is just that kind of election...

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!

[tblue37]

2. I am touched by all the elderly and infirm people who are

doing everything they can to make sure they vote for Obama no matter what they have to suffer to do so.

[morillon]

3. Wow. That story tops everything I've heard.

Obama supporters are incredibly dedicated.