Sunday Rerun: She voted for the Labor Party

 Well, now that the election is over, and everyone is happy about the results, and the losing side is vowing to work with the winners for the betterment of all the nation and all the world...

I couldn't sustain that for much longer. But let's look back at someone who really wanted to vote. And if you don't vote, please tell me why.

A woman in Florida (what IS it down there? Is it the heat, the humidity, the Disney, what???) was in labor when she got to the Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office in Orlando last Tuesday.

Fox 35 news channel talked to poll worker Karen Brinceno Gonzalez, who said that a woman was on the way to the hospital, her husband at the wheel, when she told him to swing by the polls on the way.  It was only a half mile out of the way.

The mom-to-be sat in the car while dutiful dad went in, got in line, and when it was his turn, asked poll workers to come out and help her vote early.

“He's like ‘Yeah, she's about to have a baby, but she won't go to the hospital to have a baby until she votes,’” Gonzalez told the news. “I was like, OK, what can I do to facilitate her to vote? Where is she? Where can I go to help?”

Everyone is "like" something, you see.

Ms Gonzalez stepped out to the parking lot, found the woman breathing heavily, checked her ID and gave her a mail-in ballot to be returned by 11/3.

“She said, ‘No! No! No! I need to fill it out right now,’” Gonzalez said. “So she filled it out. I gave her an 'I VOTED' sticker, and she was off to the hospital.”

These are serious Floridians down there.

Eileen Deliz is also on the staff at the Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office, and she told the Orlando Sentinel that this was not in the usual course of events. 

“We are very, very busy, but when something like that happens it just makes our day," she told the paper. “It kind of validates what we do [and] the importance of voting. Every election cycle brings us a great little story.”

The Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office did not release the woman's name. I would love to know what she and her husband named the baby.

Looking back, there was a time when Baltimore Colt season ticket holders had to go to Memorial Stadium and line up to get their playoff tickets. People who worked there reported in different years that a Fire Dept ambulance, lights on for an emergency call, pulled up, and so did a hearse with three people aboard...if you know what I mean.