JACKSON, Wyo. — Community Entry Service of Jackson celebrated election day and the right to vote with a socially distant picnic at May park, Tuesday. “We simply wanted to celebrate the process, and not focus on the outcome,” said Carolyn Worth, the Director of the Jackson Dignity Division.
“Probably 80% of our clients voted,” said Worth. Among those was John Gregg, who celebrated his first time voting, at age 70. He decided to vote because he thought this election was more important than ever and had been apprehensive in the past due to his speech impediment, explained Worth.
John registered and voted in-person at the Rec Center with the help of Carolyn. “Today he came in and we were talking about voting and he said he had never voted before because of his speech impediment, I’ve been working with John for over 10 years and never knew,” said Worth.
She discussed how the celebration was about the right to vote, not who clients were voting for. “A lot of our clients ended up doing mail-in ballots, everytime clients come into the office we provide them with the resources to vote, not who to vote for.”
Everyone wore red white and blue to the picnic and socially distanced by households.
