Poll worker tells Obama as he votes early: ‘I need an ID’
BY NATASHA KORECKI Political Reporter Twitter: @natashakorecki October 25, 2012 3:48PM
President Barack Obama casts his ballot during early voting while in Chicago, Ill., on Thursday, October 25, 2012. | Andrew A. Nelles~Sun-Times Media
Updated: October 26, 2012 5:18AM
Just 12 days before the election and in the midst of a whirlwind campaign tour, President Barack Obama touched down on his home turf Thursday — and made history.
Obama returned to Chicago’s Kenwood neighborhood and became the first president to vote early in person.
“I very much appreciate everybody here,” the president said at the early voting site. “It’s good to be home back in the neighborhood.”
But the most famous man in the world still had to prove who he was.
An early voting official looked at the president and smiled: “I need an I.D.”
Why hasn’t anyone mentioned that he had to have a poll worker go over to his booth to help him? The poll worker stayed there for most of the time it took him to cast his vote.