Among the nearly 79 million ballots put into the ballot box yesterday, there were many special ballots that moved many people. Those are the votes of voters who have passed the age of one hundred.
For example, Quang Ninh, a locality with 32 voters aged 100 and over who personally cast their votes to elect National Assembly and People's Council deputies at all levels.
Or the image of Ms. Dang Thi Lam, 116 years old, in Hoa Vang commune, Da Nang city, slowly, personally putting her vote when the ballot box was brought to her house by the election team.
In Quang Tri, Mrs. Duong Thi Sao, 109 years old, was helped by relatives to the voting area to exercise her citizenship rights. In Hai Phong, Mr. Ngo Van Sinh, 103 years old, stayed up all night, and woke up at 2 am to prepare to vote.
Then researcher Nguyen Dinh Tu, 106 years old in Ho Chi Minh City - who was just visited and wished Tet by General Secretary To Lam during the Binh Ngo Lunar New Year 2026 recently, also personally voted very early on the great festival of the country.
Those information and images on election day, in themselves, have said a lot, making the meaning of the "River and Mountain Festival" clearer than ever.
A person who has gone through more than a century of history still cherishes his vote. That says a lot about the resilience of faith.
The hundred-year-old voters of today have lived through almost all the major turning points of the country in modern times. They witnessed the first General Election in 1946, the arduous years of war, the day the country was unified, then the period of renovation and integration...
For them, the ballot is not just a simple voting procedure. But it is the memory of a long historical journey, a symbol of the right to mastery that the whole nation has had to sacrifice with so many sacrifices.
Therefore, each vote of a hundred-year-old carries a special weight. It is a continuation of the belief from the previous generation, sent to the future of the country.
In the flow of today's election day, those images also bring a very simple but profound lesson for the younger generations.
When witnessing people who have passed the age of a hundred years still striving to go to the polling station, many young people will deeply understand that it is a precious democratic right that every citizen has a responsibility to cherish.
