Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Thursday, November 02, 2006
How Confident Are Ohio's Voters?
The state of Ohio was the center of attention during the 2004 Presidential race because of the controversy surrounding their votes. Many Ohio voters felt that their votes didn't count, so our own Ballot Boxers drove to the capital in Columbus on the eve of 2006's election to find out if feelings had changed:
Barbara Ritter
"They actually pulled a machine while I was there. As if it hadn't been tallying correctly, which of course made everybody doubt because people had been voting there. So there's always that question of the technology, is it accurate are people being counted.
I think there were votes that were cast that weren't counted. They contested a few people while I was there, they had to vote a challenge ballot, they were allowed to vote, but it was one of those where they would determine later if they were going to count that vote."
Wendell Ward
"I feel [if] you're minority or if you low class it don't count. If you're middle class or rich, yeah, I think [your vote] would. And you'll give them money, that's the way I feel. Because they don't look at people on the lower east side or on the west side or Parson's Ave. I can't say they don't look at them as humans, they don't look at them as it counts. We're human, we don't got a lot, but we're human."
Neal Shapiro
"It's just a check and balance system, that's what you're needing is a check and balance system that maybe should be in place where one person checks the other person to make sure that that guy's doing the job right. I think under the circumstances it's the best thing that's going in the world today, even if it's a little corrupt as long as for the most part we're able to live like we can live as we're doing today, it's worth it."
Susan Rider
"My husband teaches at a university, and he had a student and she did absentee vote, well she was going to do it and she was waiting for her ballot in the mail and she never got her ballot. So she called up and they said that it had already been voted, someone voted, and they basically couldn't do anything about it. And that one area where they had the 3,000 votes and they only had 600 voters in the area, that one, you know, so I think there is definitely some stuff going on. I don't know, I'm hoping for the best, I may be a little more cynical just because our Secretary of State who didn't handle the issues before is the one who's running."
Make sure to look through the rest of this site for more information about the issues disputed over for Ohio's 2006 election!
Disclaimer: These interviews were first published on the Common Language Project's Web site as a piece on Ohio voter disenfranchisement.
Barbara Ritter
"They actually pulled a machine while I was there. As if it hadn't been tallying correctly, which of course made everybody doubt because people had been voting there. So there's always that question of the technology, is it accurate are people being counted.
I think there were votes that were cast that weren't counted. They contested a few people while I was there, they had to vote a challenge ballot, they were allowed to vote, but it was one of those where they would determine later if they were going to count that vote."
Wendell Ward"I feel [if] you're minority or if you low class it don't count. If you're middle class or rich, yeah, I think [your vote] would. And you'll give them money, that's the way I feel. Because they don't look at people on the lower east side or on the west side or Parson's Ave. I can't say they don't look at them as humans, they don't look at them as it counts. We're human, we don't got a lot, but we're human."
Neal Shapiro
"It's just a check and balance system, that's what you're needing is a check and balance system that maybe should be in place where one person checks the other person to make sure that that guy's doing the job right. I think under the circumstances it's the best thing that's going in the world today, even if it's a little corrupt as long as for the most part we're able to live like we can live as we're doing today, it's worth it."
Susan Rider"My husband teaches at a university, and he had a student and she did absentee vote, well she was going to do it and she was waiting for her ballot in the mail and she never got her ballot. So she called up and they said that it had already been voted, someone voted, and they basically couldn't do anything about it. And that one area where they had the 3,000 votes and they only had 600 voters in the area, that one, you know, so I think there is definitely some stuff going on. I don't know, I'm hoping for the best, I may be a little more cynical just because our Secretary of State who didn't handle the issues before is the one who's running."
Make sure to look through the rest of this site for more information about the issues disputed over for Ohio's 2006 election!
Disclaimer: These interviews were first published on the Common Language Project's Web site as a piece on Ohio voter disenfranchisement.
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