USA, 2nd November 2016 : A 102-year-old Prescott, Arizona, woman born before women gained the right to vote in America has cast her ballot early and voted for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n
Jerry Emmett is urging other Arizonans to follow her lead and use the state’s early voting system.<\/p>\n
Emmett made headlines in July at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia where she carried a blue-and-white sign that read “Centenarian for Hillary.”<\/p>\n
As an honorary delegate for Arizona, she announced the state’s delegation was casting 51 of its 85 votes for Clinton for president.<\/p>\n
Emmett remembers seeing her mother go to vote for the first time after the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote was ratified in August 1920.<\/p>\n
The retired educator says she’s been waiting her whole life to cast her ballot for a woman and has been eager to vote for Clinton, who would be the nation’s first female president.<\/p>\n
Source: http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/election\/102-year-old-born-women-vote-casts-vote-clinton-article-1.2854464<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"