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Voting Stories from Around the Country and the World
"I've voted since I was 18, but I didn't always win," a woman in her 90s from the Springhouse Assisted Living Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland shared. Later in the video, her friend recalls voting for Franklin Roosevelt and how long it took women, and women of color, to obtain voting rights:
The PBS/YouTube partnership Video Your Vote brought in over 2,500 short films about Election Day from registered voters in the U.S. and around the world. All of them are plotted on the map at and color-coded by story type, from "early voting" to "post-election reactions." Here are more of our favorites, shot by staff at local PBS stations:
Early in the day, while it was still dark, Virginia Station WHRO showed Virginia Beach voters headed to the polls.
In Indiana, WTIU spoke with a young first-time voter about his experience voting for president.
And in Oregon, OPB found a voter using the McDonald's drive thru as a polling place.
How did you cast your ballot last week?
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