willisninety-six:

103 year old Ruline Steininger casts a vote for Hillary Clinton in Iowa, as early voting began in the state.

She was born in 1913 when women were banned from voting, and born even before the First World War began.

She has voted in every election since 1936, when she first cast her vote for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and earlier this year has sent a letter to Hillary saying:

“In my first century of life, I’ve seen many incredible things” “A pandemic, two worldwide depressions, a cure for polio, the
first Catholic president, a man on the moon, the end of smallpox, an
attack on American soil, and a black president. In my second century, I
look forward to seeing a woman president.”

Kind of really sobering when you really think about the fact that there are people in this country who are alive at this moment and lived at a time when
universal suffrage hadn’t existed yet.

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