98-Year-Old Philadelphia Resident Will Vote In Her 19th Presidential Election
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Nearly 800,000 voters are expected to go to the polls in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Among them will be 98-year-old Emma Green, casting her 19th vote for president of the United States.
Miss. Emma first voted in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1940, she remembers having to pay a "poll tax."
"You had to pay to vote and I don't remember what they did with the money. I imagine they put it in their pocket," she said.
She hasn't missed an election since.
She was thrilled to vote for the first African-American president, twice, and she confided she'll be casting her first vote for a female presidential candidate.
She'd like to be an inspiration to those who don't bother to vote.
"These young people better watch and listen closely," she said.
For the last 50 years, since she moved here, she's voted from St. Anthony's near her Oak Lane house and she will do it again on Tuesday.