Nov
8
Mom-to-be casts US vote en route to delivery room
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CHICAGO — Nothing was going to stop first-time voter Galicia Malone from casting her ballot in Tuesday’s US elections — not even the imminent birth of her first child.
The 21-year-old from Dolton, Illinois, a suburb of President Barack Obama’s adopted hometown Chicago, had been in labor since the middle of the night, with contractions five minutes apart. But she insisted en route to hospital on stopping at her local polling station to cast her ballot, Cook County clerk David Orr said in a news release.
“I never voted before so this made a major difference in my life,” Malone told Chicago’s WBBM all-news radio station. — AFP
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