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Meet the Black Women Electors Who’ll Cast Their Electoral Votes Today
Biden and Harris will secure their victory today despite the GOP’s attempt to delegitimize millions of votes
When I get on the phone with Meedie Bardonille, a cardiac ICU nurse in Washington, D.C., she’s walking into work, armed with doughnuts for her colleagues.
It’s rare for interview subjects to ask how I’m doing. But then again, Bardonille is a nurse. It’s her job to care and to show concern and compassion. Even in a year that has demanded so much from our health care workers, they somehow find a way to keep pressing on.
Bardonille, however, is not your typical health care worker. She’s been on the D.C. Board of Nursing since 2017 — she currently serves as chair — and this year, she’s also a member of the Electoral College.
“And I think, particularly during this year, dealing with Covid and everything else that has happened, I understand politics and the influence of participating in the system.”
“I want to start off by saying I don’t consider myself a politician,” Bardonille says. “I am an advocate. And I think, particularly during…
