Westland resident Nancy Ruby has been a volunteer at the polls on Election Day since the 1960s.
For election workers, the day is incredibly long and comes with little pay. But, her father s daughter through and through, Ruby has always believed it was her duty to help the community.
Ruby s father lived in Italy during the reign of former Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. The prime minister ruled as a dictator and is known as the founder of the National Fascist Party. So, Ruby s father fled Italy s police state and landed in America. He really stressed to us children how good we had it here in the United States, she said. When he got off the boat, he kissed the ground in New York. He kept stressing to us how lucky we were to be able to give our opinion and do things for the government to help.