By Kaitlyn Schallhorn
Every so often, Shirley Weber would come home from school and bypass the front door of her Los Angeles home.
She’d take the side yard and enter in the backdoor, careful not to disrupt those gathered in her living room. It was Election Day, and people were voting at 351 West 45th St.
The importance of voting — and access to it — was instilled in Weber, California’s secretary of state, from a young age.
When Weber’s family moved to their home in Los Angeles, her mother, Mildred Nash, volunteered as a poll worker and realized there was nowhere close for their neighbors to vote. There was no nearby library or community center. Not even a church.
So she volunteered the Nash home. People could vote in the garage, she said.
David Nash said no.