Election Volunteering
Kashia Bumpess
Mr.Hussey
American History
27 April, 2016
Primary Election Volunteer Experience
My experience volunteering with the committee of seventy was surprisingly a good
experience.At first I thought it was going to be a bad experience because I didn’t want to spend my day off volunteering at polling stations but i’m actually happy I got the chance to do this because I learned a lot about voting which could benefit me when I can actually vote myself and also I met a lot of nice and interesting people.I volunteered in ward 5 so I went to the Land Title Building and the University of Arts..When I got to the voting stations it wasn’t really busy and a lot of people didn’t vote yet so I stood outside with my partners Jaidah, Tsion, and leyitha and associated with some of the other volunteers of the committee of seventy. When people finally started to come and vote I waited until some people came out to ask them questions.Not a lot of people stopped and actually answered the questions but the ones who did answered the questions to their best ability. I did have to explain what absentee vote is and I had to explain what questioned 3 and 4 meant some of the times.
As I mentioned earlier when I was volunteering I met and associated with some of the other volunteers of the committee of seventy.Most of them were elderly didn’t really see a lot of young people volunteering. I did this one nice elderly volunteer at the Land Title Building she was telling my partners and I how it is good to get involved in politics at a young age and she even took our picture for us so we could send it to Mr.Mosely to let him know we was there.One question that I do have about the election is will these votes count in their presidential election to or not? .We couldn’t collect many artifacts like flyers because at the University of Arts the volunteers were standing inside the building even though they are not supposed to be inside the building.They were passing out flyers and we couldn’t get any because they were inside and we weren’t allowed to go in there and they weren’t passing a lot of flyers out at the Land Title Building. Some pictures we took are below and also pictures of the artifacts collected.
Pictures: | Explanations: |
This was the picture we took when we got to our first polling station the Land Title Building.We took this picture to send to Mr.Mosely to let him know we was there.This was also the picture that another volunteer of the committee of seventy took. | |
This was a picture of how the inside of the polling station looked at the Land Title Building. We couldn’t go in because it was against the law so we had take the picture from outside luckily the door was open. | |
This was a picture of some of the signs they had hanging on the walls outside of the Land Title Building.Also you kind of see another volunteer of the committee of seventy in this picture. | |
This was a picture of when we first arrived at our second polling station at the University of Arts. | |
This was a picture of a glimpse of inside the polling station at the University of Arts.The door was closed so we couldn’t really get a good picture of inside.You can see the other volunteers of the committee but they were inside they building even though they are not supposed to be inside the building.They were passing out flyers and we couldn’t get any because they were inside and we weren’t allowed to go in there. | |
This is a picture of the campaign flyers we collected at the Land Title Building. |
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