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Election Day Edition: Get Out the Vote Tactics
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Barring media from polling places
Posted by
Sherhonda Allen
11/2/2004 8:14:17 PM
For the first time in almost a decade, one of our photographers was confronted at two polling places in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in Colbert County. On...
For the first time in almost a decade, one of our photographers was confronted at two polling places in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in Colbert County. One poll worker came over to ask our photographer to leave, going as far as to raise his hands as if blocking the camera. A poll worker at another site was polite and didn't push the issue. Editors, here, will address the issue after Election Day, but it has always been my understanding that polling places were "public" on Election Day and should remain open to the media. I would be interested to read more on this issue in the coming, post-election days.
Sherhonda Allen
Night Editor
The TimesDaily
Florence, Alabama
NYC rules
Posted by
Mark Daly
11/2/2004 9:51:08 AM
Al, yesterday I picked up my official “permission letter” from the New York City Board of Elections. I’m required to have it if I want...
Al, yesterday I picked up my official “permission letter” from the New York City Board of Elections. I’m required to have it if I want to visit a polling site or conduct an exit survey.
Reporters, poll site watchers and pollsters all get the same letter, apparently.
The restrictions are minimal, with one caveat – any participation must be “entirely voluntary” on the part of the voters. I’m not sure what that could mean in terms of photographs, video footage, etc.
By the way, NYC registered 435,000 new voters this year, and we are still using the 1962 "Shoup" mechanical voting machines. I'm told they will work fine in the remote chance that we have a blackout -- the only electronic part is the light bulb that hangs above the curtain.
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