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Why this 81 year old Georgia woman is voting for the first time in her life
By Mark Robertson
An 81-year-old woman is going viral for casting her first-ever vote, but the reason why is shocking people. "I'm going to vote for the first time in my life," Betty Cartledge told WSB-TV Atlanta at an early voting polling location in Covington, Georgia.
According to the news station, Cartledge said she had never voted because her husband did not think she should. He died last year. This year, she voted.
She told WSB-TV, "I was so young and everything when we got married, I didn't ever think about it. And then when I got old, I still didn't think about it, [that] it would count."
Now, she's hoping to keep voting. "It was neat, it was good," Cartledge said of going to the polls for the first time. "If I'm here, I'll be back."