Evan Hurst features two just-released videos reminding women that their votes are secret and no one, including a Trump-voting husband, has the right to coerce them when it comes to voting choices.

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One video is from Vote Common Good PAC and the other from the Lincoln Project. Both are embedded in Hurst's posting.

As Hurst says, what a pity that some women have to live this way, fearing husband who want to bully them about how they choose to vote.

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https://www.wonkette.com/p/in-praise-of-voting-for-kamala-harris

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Hurst sums up the situation of women who are having to live in fear of Trump-voting husbands:

"It’s like trying to get a message to a kidnapping victim."

I read this and think of stories I heard my grandmother and her five daughters tell. My grandfather opposed woman suffrage. He was incensed when women got the right to vote. He was born in Alabama in 1869, so it's perhaps not a surprise that he thought this way.

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My grandmother had a head on her shoulders and was not about to let any man tell her how to vote -- or that she couldn't vote. So to pay my grandfather back for his opposition to the vote for women, she would refuse, election after election, to tell him for whom she voted. "The ballot is sacred," she'd say, smiling -- and letting him think she had deliberately cancelled out his vote.

My grandfather died as the Depression hit.

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He left my grandmother, who was twenty years his junior, with six children and a step-son to raise. When the banks closed, they lost almost everything they had saved. Fortunately, my grandfather owned a general merchandise store and some other property in the town in which they lived.

My grandmother took over management of the store and made a great success of running it, proving my grandfather's argument that women are too weak-headed to vote wrong.

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The 5 daughters she raised were fiercely independent women. Despite the penury the Depression caused the family, the older 2 managed to get through college and became teachers. The younger 3 graduated from a 2-year business college and held good jobs all their lives.

Woe betide any man who'd ever have tried to tell them how to vote. I'm confident all would be voting for Kamala Harris now if they were alive, except perhaps for the one sister who was a regular churchgoer.

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Doug Baker

@wdlindsy One is put in mind of those occasional notes we find in Chinese-made consumer goods: "Help...I'm Uighur, working in a jean factory..."

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@SonofaGeorge Indeed -- sadly so.

Beachbum

@wdlindsy I love this story. My grandmother was a very strong woman too.

George Liquor, American

@wdlindsy Being a Trump supporter is disqualifying in a mate IMO. Cannot imagine voluntarily living with someone with a Trumpist worldview.

Sensible Crone for Harris

@wdlindsy Thank you for the story!

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@susiemagoo You're welcome. Those strong women shaped me in profound ways.

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@liquor_american I find it hard to imagine, too. I suppose many of us end up yoked to people we really didn't know at the time we married them.

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@Beachbum Thanks for telling me it was worth reading. We're fortunate to have had strong grandmothers!

bamfic

@wdlindsy My mother did the same, up until my father died earlier this year! It's always been very private to her. She wasn't gonna let him know what she was thinking. Probably because he was such an obnoxious fascist.

But sometimes she gave hints. She wasn't quite 21 (voting age) in 1960, but decades later admitted she might have voted for Kennedy. My father said, "If you'd have voted for Kennedy I wouldn't have married you!" She said, "Too bad I didn't know it would have been that easy."

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@bamfic I love your mother's cheeky response to your father. Good for her!