Chelsey Shepard demonstrated her familiarity with touch-screen technology, as she navigated the electronic voting ballot. The 13-year-old could only guess, however, how voters cast their ballots a decade ago.
"They might have voted by paper [ballot]," said Shepard, who took part in a field trip, Tuesday, at the Henry County Elections and Registration Office, in McDonough.
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