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Archive Home > 2010 > May > 17 > Woman, 79, has worked elections since 1955

Woman, 79, has worked elections since 1955

By Scott Hammers / The Bulletin
May 17, 2010

The first time Barbara Summers volunteered to serve on an election board, Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House and Barack Obama was still six years away from being born.

Aside from a brief period in 2002 and 2003 when her husband was ill, Summers hasn’t missed an election since.

At 79,....

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