# A different sort of election thread: My grandmother voted! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 4, 2004, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-election-thread-my-grandmother-voted/272949 "2004-11-04T10:32:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-election-thread-my-grandmother-voted/272949/1 "2004-11-04T10:32:36Z")
My grandmother was born on December 17, 1904. Teddy Roosevelt was President of the United States, and women, althought they could vote in some states, did not yet have that right in all places. In this latest election my grandmother voted in her **20th** presidential election! How about that? It was by advance ballot, and my aunt was allowed to assist her. In true secret ballot form she isn’t saying who she voted for, and my aunt of course keeps quiet about it too, as is proper. Very MPSIMS maybe, but _I_ think it is fantastic! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-election-thread-my-grandmother-voted/272949/2 "2004-11-04T13:16:48Z")
Our grandmother is an excellent lady, isn’t she! Go Gramma! ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-election-thread-my-grandmother-voted/272949/3 "2004-11-04T15:00:28Z")
Go Granny! I just mentioned my grandmother, born in 1918, in another thread 🙂 She’s still around and she voted, too. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-election-thread-my-grandmother-voted/272949/4 "2004-11-04T15:08:05Z")
My grandmother died at 113, lived and traveled alone for the last part of her life, and voted in every election. She voted for Calvin Coolidge perhaps more often than was fashionable (i.e., long after he was dead), but she learned to like living Democrats, and voted for Muskie and McGovern and Carter before she died. Hooray for grandmothers! They don’t know everything, but they all know a few things we don’t. ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-election-thread-my-grandmother-voted/272949/5 "2004-11-04T15:23:13Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Very MPSIMS maybe, but _I_ think it is fantastic! 🆒 \<------ **Baker’s grandmother** is very cool! Not Mudane at all! I think it’s fantastic too! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-election-thread-my-grandmother-voted/272949/6 "2004-11-04T15:31:15Z")
**Baker,** why don’t you write to the White House and tell them? I’ll bet your grammie would get a letter in the mail from Bush, congratulating her on her 20th vote. May even get some media attention, if she’d like that… ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-election-thread-my-grandmother-voted/272949/7 "2004-11-04T15:32:11Z")
My grandparents both voted in Ohio this year. They are 96 and 94 respectively and have been married for 76 years. I know my grandfather at least voted Deomocratic for the first time since Carter left office. Every year he would prefer to dig up FDR and prop him up in the Oval Office, so he is never completely happy. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-election-thread-my-grandmother-voted/272949/8 "2004-11-04T15:34:08Z")
Yeah the [press loves this kind of stuff.](http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/1084597.shtml) and I think it’s absolutely fantastic. > [@](#): > > MADISON – Mary Foss has been doing it for eight decades, but every time the 100-year-old marvel steps up in line to vote at the Municipal Building, people act like it’s a special occasion. > > Accompanied Tuesday by good friend Dassie Jackson, Foss once again performed the civic duty granted to women when she was 16 years old. Foss and Jackson hit it just right, too, voting at 9:30, when there was a brief lull in the otherwise long voting lines. > > Foss, after all, had other things to do. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-election-thread-my-grandmother-voted/272949/9 "2004-11-04T15:39:14Z")
My grandfather, 93 years old, is at the polls for every election - be it federal, state, county or city. Heck, he keeps me updated on city polictics. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-election-thread-my-grandmother-voted/272949/10 "2004-11-04T15:50:25Z")
I misread this as ‘A different sort of election **threat** :my grandmother’ Forget Iraq, jobs ,crime ,same sex marriages: forget these, if you wanna win the election you need Baker’s grandmother 🙂 The opposition will collapse… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-election-thread-my-grandmother-voted/272949/11 "2004-11-04T15:58:44Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > **Baker,** why don’t you write to the White House and tell them? I’ll bet your grammie would get a letter in the mail from Bush, congratulating her on her 20th vote… Depends on who she voted for, perhaps. … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-election-thread-my-grandmother-voted/272949/12 "2004-11-04T16:35:21Z")
Well, she doesn’t say, but I would guess, if I had to, that it was for the guy who won.