INDIANAPOLIS — A nursing home resident determined to vote was transported by an ambulance service to the polls.
WHNT reported that Karen Vaughn, an Indianapolis resident who has been living at a nursing home in another town, was told she had to vote in person after a mix-up with her absentee ballot.
After taking her to a doctor’s appointment, Heartland Ambulance Service EMS provider Randy Koch agreed to take her to the polls in the ambulance.
“It’s kind of a first for me,” Koch said. “Helping her to get out and do that, it’s kind of a civic duty.”
Vaughn said voting is a “God-given right.”
“Because my life depends on it,” she said. “Everybody’s life depends on it, and I’m not going to let that opportunity go away.”