Indecision, and then, a sister’s push gets Baltimore woman to vote
Nov 05, 2024
By HALEY PARSLEYCapital News ServiceBALTIMORE – Novela Sellers wasn’t sure if she would vote until her sister called her and convinced her to go to the polls. “She just wore my phone out,” said Sellers, 65. Her sister told her to vote for Democrats Kamala Harris for president and Angela Alsobrooks for U.S. Senate. “I just hope I didn’t do the wrong thing,” the retired Baltimore native said, speaking outside her voting site at Latrobe Homes Community Center in East Baltimore. “I don’t trust none of them. I just feel that they … they just don’t do a good job.” Sellers said she originally favored Hogan for Senate, and had planned to vote for him, even marking his name on her sample ballot, which she’d received in the mail. But after speaking with her sister, Sellers crossed out the Republican’s name and drew a check mark next to Alsobrooks’ name.She had little faith, however, in the Democratic candidates representing her well. “I don’t care about those two,” she said. “They’re kind of hypocrites, you know? They don’t seem like they’ll do what they say. And every time you put somebody in the office, they do what they want to do.”But Republican Donald Trump, who is hoping to return to the White House, didn’t appeal to Sellers, either. “Well, I always felt he was against Black people,” she said. “It’s like a natural feeling, you know, that he was not for us.”She wavered, but ultimately cast her ballot for Harris. “I just hope by putting her there she can move up. That she’ll be a good person and do the right things … and then really, really be for the people.”