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Greeson: Today’s the last chance to make sure you’re registered to have a real voice

Jamie Hightower and Carolyn Tatum, election officials, help LaVerne and Ben Bonine of Lookout Valley, Tennessee, get their ballots to vote during early voting at the Hamilton County Election Commission Friday, July 13, 2018 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. While LaVerne was stating that they tend to participate in early voting to avoid the election day crowds, Ben jokingly chimed in with, "we might be in heaven before the real thing."
Jamie Hightower and Carolyn Tatum, election officials, help LaVerne and Ben Bonine of Lookout Valley, Tennessee, get their ballots to vote during early voting at the Hamilton County Election Commission Friday, July 13, 2018 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. While LaVerne was stating that they tend to participate in early voting to avoid the election day crowds, Ben jokingly chimed in with, "we might be in heaven before the real thing." Jamie Hightower and Carolyn Tatum, election officials, help LaVerne and Ben Bonine of Lookout Valley, Tennessee, get their ballots to vote during early voting at the Hamilton County Election Commission Friday, July 13, 2018 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. While LaVerne was stating that they tend to participate in early voting to avoid the election day crowds, Ben jokingly chimed in with, "we might be in heaven before the real thing."

By Jay Greeson 3 min read

I asked Sharon Alexander if she was a glutton for punishment.

“Please do not write a story about me,” she said with the earnestness of someone understanding the big picture and the understanding of someone trying to keep everyone around her on task.

This is not about Sharon Alexander. It’s bigger than her.

photo Jay Greeson

But for a woman who is a longtime Buffalo Bills fan – “It’s hard being a Bills fan,” she admitted – and who has signed on as the co-president of the Chattanooga League of Women Voters, well, it’s easy to picture Alexander doing Rubik’s Cubes over breakfast and trying jigsaw puzzles looking only at the backs of the pieces.

“Sure it can be frustrating,” Alexander said of the hard push the League of Women Voters is making to get as many people registered to vote as possible for the upcoming November ballots. “It is frustrating, to be in a place especially where there are a lot of active people who are marching for their rights but not going to vote for their rights.”