These voters sat out in 2016. Now they could determine the next U.S. president


  • World
  • Wednesday, 21 Oct 2020

FILE PHOTO: A woman wears a mask with a message urging voter participation while she waits in line to enter a polling place on the first day of the state's in-person early voting for the general election in Durham, North Carolina, U.S. October 15, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake/File Photo

(Reuters) - Iowa resident LeAnne Putman-Thomas has watched her country pursue wars, endure recessions and elect its first Black president. Yet the 53-year-old never felt compelled to vote.

That changed this month, when she went to an early voting center to cast a ballot for Democrat Joe Biden - or, more accurately, to vote out Republican incumbent Donald Trump.

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