NYC couple travels 9,300 miles from India to vote - Yahoo! News

NYC couple travels 9,300 miles from India to vote - Yahoo! News
NYC couple travels 9,300 miles from India to vote - Yahoo! News
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NEW YORK – A New York City couple has traveled halfway around the world in the name of civic duty.Susan Scott-Ker and her husband arrived in New York on Wednesday after flying 9,300 miles to vote in Tuesday's presidential election.They have been working India but decided to return to New York when their absentee ballots failed to arrive. Their trip began in Bangalore with stopovers in New Delhi and Chicago.It will be their first time voting in a presidential election. The New Zealand-born Scott-Ker and her Morroco-born husband became American citizens a year ago.They estimate the trip will cost $5,000.___Information from: The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/
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snoringKatZ
So if these people who BECAME US citizens can travel halfway around the world to vote, we all can figure out a way to vote on Tuesday too.
blogginginthewind
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A-f*&#%-ing-MAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hooray for them!!!!!
and *huggywaves to snoring*
Waterbaby
must be nice to have that kind of money to burn.

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