HW 30: Tuesdays Symposium

I attended a symposium for the first time on Tuesday, and the title of the symposium was “Citizens Gone Wild, Taking Control of our Democracy.” Nancy Tobi introduced this topic to us and mostly talked about the government and how she felt. She presented us with a power point, slideshow and talked about black box voting. New Hampshire uses two different techniques to count the votes for presidency, Diebold and Hand counting. She explained that the Diebold is a machine that counts the votes for us, but she went on to explain that it is not always correct, and it can mess up the vote counting. Nancy, herself, believes that votes should just be counted by hand because she wants to “help prevent unwanted presidency.” As soon as she started talking about politics and our president, I got aggravated because I don’t like when people discuss politics and he’s clearly our president for a reason, so it bothers me when people bash him. Anyway, I won’t talk about my feelings toward President Bush, that’s a person issue. But to finish up, she talked about how NH is a free and open election, and how she wants voting to change in American.