Palin casts ballot, keeps it secret
Agence France-Presse
First Posted 05:30:00 11/05/2008
Filed Under: US elections, Politics
WASHINGTON -- Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin cast her ballot in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, on Tuesday but refused to reveal whom she voted for.
"I am also exercising my right to privilege, see, and I don't have to tell anybody who I vote for," Palin told reporters after voting at Wasilla city hall with her husband, Todd. "Nobody does. That's really cool about America."
"Tomorrow, I hope, I believe that I will be able to wake up as vice president-elect and be able to get to work, transition mode, with the president-elect John McCain," the Alaska governor added.
Palin said she was "so anxious to work for the American people. We have an optimistic and confident view of what is going to happen today.
"I recognize that this is an historical event, no matter which ticket prevails," she said. "It bodes so well for the progress that our great country is making.
"Barriers, of course, being removed. Glass ceilings being shattered, as a representation of both tickets will show.
Palin welcomed a finding by the Alaska state personnel board on Monday that she did not abuse her office as governor in dismissing the state public safety commissioner, a case which has come to be known as "Troopergate."
The report was released on the eve of the election in which Palin's role in the case became political fodder in the campaign.
"The report cleared us of any wrongdoing," she said. "I'm very thankful for that.
"We told you we had done nothing wrong," she said. "That I had done nothing wrong in replacing a cabinet member and exercised my right, my responsibility to make sure that as governor I had the right people in the right places."
Republican presidential candidate John McCain cast his vote Tuesday in Arizona accompanied by his wife, Cindy, while Democratic hopeful Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, voted in Chicago.
Obama's running mate Joseph Biden voted in Wilmington, Delaware.
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