Teddi Smith Robillard Voted Today

This morning at 6:15 a.m., I got a call from Teddi Smith Robillard, 73, of Lexington telling me that she had just voted. 

Teddi is a former felon who has been fighting since Spring of last year to get her right to vote back in Kentucky and this is the first time she's been able to vote since the early 80s.

"It's been very weird," Teddi said, thinking back.  "For so much of my life, I've helped people to register to vote - hundreds of people - but I haven't been able to vote myself.  It always felt strange to me, but I still did it because of how important voting is. 

"As for this morning, I was very happy to vote - that I could go in there and vote for people I wanted to win."

"Some people say it doesn't do any good to vote in federal elections.  I beg to differ.  It's a good habit to get in."

"Voting on the local level is more important, of course, but that influence trickles up. "

"If you get a block of people to vote together on an issue, it can really matter.  We're powerful together and I'm adding a little more to that now that I can vote."

So if you have the right to vote, you have a little over an hour and a half to use it.