Estelle L. Schultz, 98, was born before women had the right to vote. She is holding her absentee ballot and is featured on Iwaited96years.com
The 2016 election is notable not only for who is running—the first woman to earn the presidential nomination of a major political party—but for who is voting: women who were born before they even had the right to. People like Stellajoe Staebler, 100, of Washington state, who was born in 1916:
"I am grateful that at the age of 100 I'm still able to vote and that there is a highly qualified woman to vote for."
And Estelle Liebow Schultz, born in 1918, and who participated in her first election when she voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
"She was in the hospital about one-and-a-half years ago and was diagnosed with a heart condition and was told she only had six months to live," (Schultz's granddaughter, Sarah Bunin) Benor, of Los Angeles said. "She kept saying, 'I want to live long enough to vote,' and now she wants to see [Clinton] get inaugurated so it's almost like she's living for this election."
And Lee Feldman, 100, of Florida.
"It's about time we have a woman president," said Feldman, a widow, mother of three and a self-described strict Democrat who resides in a Kings Point condominium with her live-in aide. "It's the first time getting a chance to vote for a woman and she happens to be brilliant."
The 19th Amendment, passed in 1920, gave women the right to vote. Now, Just four years away from that centennial, the 2016 election serves as a reminder for these voters—and for their families —that there was a time it wasn’t so.
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