A 101-year-old African-American, Mrs.
Thelma Feastra, said she would pack her bags and leave the U.S. should
Republican nominee Donald Trump be elected president on Tuesday.
“I want to get the best people out there
to take care of the citizens; so I voted Hillary. I am hoping the
election will be alright.
“However, if Trump wins, I guess I will just pack my bags and leave the U.S.,” the centenarian told a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria at the Hampton Voter Registrar, the State of Virginia, after casting her vote.
Feastra, a curbside voter, said she was
motivated to vote so as to be a part of those who decided who becomes
the president of the U.S.
A curbside voter is any qualified voter
who is able to travel to the voting place, but because of age, or
physical disability is unable to enter the voting place in person
without physical assistance.
A curbside voter may vote either in the vehicle or in the immediate proximity of the voting place.
According to her, not being involved could have a consequence on who emerges the president.
“If you don’t vote, you just can’t
complain, you just take what you get,” the physically-challenged Clinton
supporter, Feastra said.
Also speaking, Feaster’s daughter,
Cassandra Williams, who drove her mother to the voting centre, said she
had heard complaints about both presidential candidates.
She, however, said that the grievances should not keep people from voting.
“There’s no good choice between Clinton
and Trump but there’s a worse choice. This year, you just have bad
candidates but one of them will still become the president even if you
don’t vote.
“Still, you have a responsibility to
come out and vote and get someone who will make our country greater
because the country is already great.”
Williams said she was motivated to vote
because she marched for the right to vote in the 1960s adding, she was
arrested but did not regret the experience.
“It was just something I had to do,” she said.
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