she smiled. she danced in the airport. and then a few weeks later, the north miami city council named a wing of the local library after her, the library where disiline victor had had to wait in line all those hours. it would now have her name on it. look, the desiline victor voting wing. a permanent reminder of what it means to vote in this country. what it sometimes takes to play your part in our democracy. desiline victor passed away last fall at the age of 106, leaving behind an example of joy and determination in citizenship, right? even when citizenship is hard. also leaving behind the wing of the library that was name in her honor. so yesterday in north miami that. voted a the desiline victor voting wing. it was the last day to vote early before tomorrow s election. this what it looked like at the north miami library yesterday
where desiline victor used to vote in the wing named after her now. the wait to vote at the desiline victor arm of the library yesterday was three hours long. the reason the lines got so long is the county ran out of some ballots forrer a few hours. by sunset, a line of more than 200 people snaked around the library, people just waiting. one voter who had waited three hours on that line told the miami heard, quote, i would have stayed in line eight hours if i had to. campaign workers for a democratic gubernatorial candidate andrew gillum handed out water and pizza to voters waiting in line. a local company provided head phones to help people pass the time. in tend, everybody who stayed in line yesterday got to vote in the desiline victor voting wing. it s easy to see why an hours long wait would be discourage. it would be easy to get disgusted and quit. but seeing people willing to
that read i voted. [ applause ] that s desiline. desiline victor was born in 1910 in haiti. she became a citizen in 2005. in 2008, at the age of 97, she cast her first ever vote for barack obama. four years later in 2012, desiline victor arrived at her local library to vote again that time things were a little more difficult for folks all over the state. republicans in florida had just cut early voting days by nearly half. why did they do that? well we can see what the effect was, lines to vote that year were long.