Monday, November 12, 2007

HW: 30 Citizenship Symposium

This past week I attended two of the speeches that were held at the Citizenship Symposium at my college. The one that I attended on tuesday was a woman born in the birthplace of america, Lexington, Massachusetts. Her name was Nancy Tobi and during her speech she spoke about the different kinds of voting methods in the state of New Hampshire. There are two different kinds. One is called the Diebold and they are machines that count the votes for you and the other is just plain old hand counted voting. She was very determined in getting her point across about the different types of voting in the state and she wants it to get easier.
The one speech that I went to on thursday was with US representative and Holocaust survivor, Tom Lantos. In his speech he told of his experiences while growing up and how he only moved to the United States at the age of 19 right after World War II. His main point was to tell us that reputations are now not as important as they used to be and he has hope for the United States of America.

1 comment:

granny6x said...

Nancy Tobi often recommends this website for a detailed plan of the implementation of hand counting of paper ballots.
http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/
Hand counting is feasible. Too bad much of the country has a mental block about it. The advantages would be overwhelming and the benefits would have a ripple effect throughout our nation.