Resplendent in a white pant suit and blue shirt, 102-year-old Jerry Emmett didn’t need much help to get to the polling booth and cast her vote and hopefully see a life-long dream come true of a woman in the Oval Office.
Jerry was born before women even had the vote in the US. And she shot to fame during the Democratic National Convention when she stood in the audience holding a sign saying “Centenarian for Hillary”.
As she headed to cast her early vote she told told the AP. “I am getting to vote for Hillary Clinton for president, which has been my dream since Bill Clinton was president.”
She also said: “I have lived for this day, to vote for her and to live to see her, the next president of the United States of America.”
Jerry told reporters, as she arrived at the polling booth on the arm of her son, Jim, that she voted for Franklin Delano Roosevelt n her first presidential election and that she saw her mother vote for the first time after women were given the vote in 1920.
