An Early Voting Story

Taking all the politics out of it, if you want to know why I think this election is so important, here's one reason:

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Here's an early voting story from a medical student in Evansville, Ind.:

"I squeaked in just before the 7pm deadline to find two very frustrated poll workers and a line of a couple dozen people, due to problems with the computerized voting system not accepting people's driver's licenses. It was taking about 7-10 minutes per person just to get the computer to accept them as valid and to print out their ballot, causing very long delays.

For me the most moving moment came when the family in front of me, comprising probably 4 generations of voters (including an 18 year old girl voting for her first time and a 90-something hunched-over grandmother), got their turn to vote. When the old woman left the voting booth she made it about halfway to the door before collapsing in a nearby chair, where she began weeping uncontrollably. When we rushed over to help we realized that she wasn't in trouble at all but she had not truly believed, until she left the booth, that she would ever live long enough to cast a vote for an African-American for president.

There were about 20 people in front of me but remarkably not a single person left the room without voting over the 2 hours it took to get through the line."
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It's not about race for me: I obviously would support him even if he was an old white man and had the same views. But this is why I want it to happen even more than any other election I've ever been a part of. It's history and something positive after quite a long time of negativity and hate.

Thomas