"Maggie Hill waited in line 10 hours to vote for Kerry"

[Bluebear]

By MARTHA IRVINE, AP National Writer

"Under-30 voters came through in big numbers this year, with more than 20 million casting a ballot for president, researchers found. The turnout bested their 2000 showing by more than nine percentage points and heartened activists who worked to get young voters to the polls.

In Gambler, Ohio, Maggie Hill waited in line for nearly 10 hours to vote for John Kerry. She skipped field hockey practice and ate pizza and cookies delivered to hungry students by their professors.

"You gotta stay with it," Hill and her classmates at Kenyon College told one another, as hundreds of them sprawled in the community center playing board games, chatting and waiting for one of only two voting booths.

Researchers at the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement at the University of Maryland found that 18- to 29-year-old turnout was up by 4.6 million voters from exit poll data from the 2000 election."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_el_ge/young_voters

[JohnKleeb]

1. Always in the most saddest circumences, theres always honor after all

I would have done it too, thats how important this was to me.

[mhr]

2. Another Republican Myth Blown Away!

eom

[Pirate Smile]

3. Where is the outrage about these waits! No one should have to

wait ten hours to vote. How many votes did we lose because someone couldn't wait ten hours?

I'd like to see a breakdown of the numbers of voting machines or booths allocated in the different areas - colleges, urban areas, etc. I know there were lines a lot of places but this is insane.

[tech3149]

6. you're right but....

I'd sleep in the street for a week to cast my vote.

[whirlygigspin]

4. I love these type of stories

that have Joe Barnyard waiting in line 10hours with thousands of people just to vote against *Bush at a poll, and then the poll numbers show *Bush winning that same poll by a huge margin.

-Who ya gonna beleive? Joe Barnyard and your lying eyes or CNN?

*Bush won by Millions I tell ya, Millions!
anyone want to buy some swampland in Fl.? I'm selling it cheap!
ROFL

[kikiek]

5. God bless Maggie Hill. I appreciate her tenacity.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. kick

[RememberTheCoup]

8. Heh heh! That should be GAMBIER, not Gambler.

funny typo

[sbj405]

9. I hope she'll do it again.

That's my fear. This election was some of these people's first and they waited and waited and we're still stuck with chimpy. I hope it energizes more than it discourages.

[robbedvoter]

10. But was her vote counted?

Famous last words:
"I have no time for those crying in your teacups for stolen elections"
John Kerry, campaign trail 2003