HW 30: Citizens Gone Wild (Tuesday)

On Tuesday, November 6th, I went to the symposium "Citizens gone wild" (slideshow) by Nancy Tobi. Nancy openly spoke about democracy and her feelings towards it. She was born in Lexington Mass, which is known as "the birthplace of American Liberty". She is the founder of http://www.blackboxvoting.org/, which can give you updates on the latest news in Mainstream News Reports, or information with the latest elections, voting rights, etc. The slideshow that Nancy showed was about the two different voting techniques that are used. Diebold is a machine counting method with the votes, whereas the other technique was just hand count, which is pretty self-explanatory, where each voted was hand counted. 81% of New Hampshire uses the counting software. Nancy talks about how the government takes its power from the people, and she made that very clear that the power came form the people, and that in order for the government to receive it then they needed to be open to the people. I found Nancy’s speech to be interesting because she seemed determined to make a change, I quote her when I say, "There is sunlight at the end of the tunnel". What she says shows that she still has hope and if you look at things in those certain was they you'll eventually get there with enough determination.