Montgomery County Voter Hall of Fame, which celebrates voters who have not missed an election in at least 50 years, recently added 15 new members, writes Camille Baker for The New York Times.

One of them is Leola Hubbard, who voted for the first time in 1963, when she was 21. In the more than 60 years since then, she has not missed voting in an election, whether it be a primary or general.

Hubbard, who is African American, voted for the first time before the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which banned practices like poll taxes and literacy tests that were aimed at restricting Black Americans from voting.

“I know how strenuously people fought for the right,” she said. “I just felt that I owed it to all of those people who had put so much effort into getting us the right to vote.”

Since easily accessible voter records in Montgomery County only span a couple of decades, membership in the Voter Hall of Fame is partially based on the honor system.

When applying to be included, voters attest to having participated in earlier elections.

Read more about the Montgomery County residents who made the Voter Hall of Fame in The New York Times.

Montgomery County officials honor some residents by inducting them into the ‘Voters Hall of Fame’