King Walker and his grandmother, Flossie, assume they is perhaps the oldest and youngest pair voting in Atlanta Tuesday.
ATLANTA — Voter turnout is traditionally low in off yr elections however two Atlanta residents weren’t about to let this chance cross them by.
King Walker and his grandmother, Flossie, assume they is perhaps the oldest and youngest pair voting in Atlanta Tuesday.
King simply turned 18 two weeks in the past and Flossie is about to show 94. He stated he could not wait to hitch his Grandma on the polls.
“After I was youthful I’d all the time watch her go vote,” the Booker T Washington Excessive Faculty Scholar stated.
He turned 18 on October twelfth and to have fun, he requested his virtually 94-year-old Grandma to come back with him as he forged his first poll.
Voting has all the time been essential to Flossie, even when she would not know precisely who she voted for the primary time she went to the polls.
However watching her grandson vote for the primary time? She’ll keep in mind that, stating that she was “very, very happy with him.”
King attended the Democracy Now class via Atlanta Public Faculties, Rock the Vote, AMB Sports activities and Leisure, and the New Georgia Challenge when he was 17 as a result of he needed to find out about voting rights.
“I used to be doing the discussion board at APS and three of the candidates had been there: Andre Dickens, Antonio Brown, and Sharon Homosexual. So, we received to ask them questions and that influenced who I used to be going to vote for,” he stated.
King added that he did his homework and stated he was prepared for Election Day.
“I used to be nervous and excited as a result of it was my first time voting. And also you’re seeing all of the names and the folks you’ve got talked about and mentioned,” he stated.
Nonetheless, he was grateful to have his grandmother by his aspect.
“It was thrilling, to observe him get out and vote for the primary time,” Flossie stated in regards to the day.
Nevertheless, it wasn’t all easy crusing for King. His precinct could not discover his voter registration, so he needed to vote by provisional poll.
Despite the fact that there wasn’t a line, it took him almost an hour to get via the method, however he did vote and he stated he is extremely grateful to his grandma for being there with him.
