Video Your Vote: Students Reflect on the Election
and Voting
Video
Your Vote is a joint project
between the NewsHour and YouTube to document the
experiences of voters across the country and collect
voter opinions on the 2008 election.
Sammie, a student at Eleanor Roosevelt High School
in New York City, registered with Rock the Vote, but
when she arrived at the polling station found that she
was not officially registered and had to cast a provisional
ballot.
Students from City Honors High School in Buffalo, New
York, interviewed Election Comissioner Ralph Mohr about
involving young people in voting.
Students from Hillsborough High School in Tampa,
Florida, report from outside the polls in the Seminole
Heights area of the city.
Students from Thomas Fitz-simon High School in Philadelphia
interviewed teachers about their voting experiences
and complications with voting or registering.
In California, students from Oakland High School
caught campaign supporters approaching voters as they
entered polling stations.
Student reporters from Valley High School in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, talk to voters and poll workers at the polls.
Charles and Nathalie, from Annandale High School in
Virginia interviewed a new voter in Springfield.
Charles and Nathalie, from Annandale High School in
Virginia talk to a voter who helped distribute information
about his choosen candidate at the polls.
A student from Ridge Community High School in Davenport,
Florida, talks about how she prepared to cast her first
vote.
Students from Ridge Community High School in Florida,
interviewed an African-American McCain supporter at
a rally prior to the election about the pressures she
feels choosing a candidate and what she tells Obama
supporters.
A new voter at Oakville Senior High in St. Louis,
Missouri, talks about the election issues important
to her.
This [teen] is an immigrant from Mexico, and he works long hours at a local farm milking dairy cows, five hours per milking, twice a day.
