Special election: Ambulance takes voter to polls

[November 05, 2010]  HAVERTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A Philadelphia-area man didn't let an ambulance ride stop him from casting his vote. Eighty-three-year-old Charles Gorby persuaded an emergency crew to stop and let him vote Tuesday as they took him home after a two-week hospital stay.

Since the polling place was only about a block from Gorby's Havertown home, the crew agreed.

Gorby voted from a stretcher with his legs protruding from under the voting booth's curtain.

Gorby tells the Delaware County Daily Times he felt it was his responsibility to make it to the polls if he was able.

He tells the paper that "voting is the least you can do" as a citizen.

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Information from: Delaware County Daily Times, http://www.delcotimes.com/

[Associated Press]

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