Posts Tagged “election day”

Record turnouts had many voters in the city waiting up to two hours to vote

November 16, 2008 by Kristen Watts
Andrew Lutsky reads The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture while waiting in line to cast his ballot for Ralph Nader outside William Alexander School in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn on Election Day.

Manuel Williams of Canarsie, Brooklyn celebrates at Solomon's Porch in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn as President-elect Barack Obama takes the stage in Chicago for his victory speech on Nov. 4, 2008

November 4, 2008 by Kristen Watts

Regina Strachan, 69, waited to vote at a Prospect Heights, Brooklyn elementary school on election day 2008

November 4, 2008 by Kristen Watts
She was reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, the first book in her women’s literature course.

Voters wait in long lines in Park Slope, Brooklyn

November 3, 2008 by Kristen Watts
By 6:30 this morning, the line at J.H.S 51 stretched halfway around the block.