Anna Potts has been manning the polls in Sedalia for 30 years. Her mother, Margaret Schick, got her involved in the election process by asking Potts to go to work with her.
“Had Mom survived, it would have been around 50 years. She was a member of the Democrat Club, so she automatically got in there,” Potts said. “She did it when at Washington School you had to vote right inside the front doors. In the winter time, it was colder than blazes, but now we are in the gym.”
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