Voting Assignment
PHILADELPHIA WD 42 PCT 06
WARD: 42 DIVISION: 6
POLLING PLACE:
Wyoming Library
ADDRESS:
E Wyoming Ave & B St
Philadelphia, PA 19120
Voter #1 Gentleman
Interview Questions and Answers
1. What motivated you to come out and vote?
It’s a change. “I want to keep (one of the political
parties) out of office.” If my
vote makes a difference, then yeah for sure I will come out and vote
2. Do you vote in every election?
“Yes I do!” It needs to be a change.
3. What changes do you hope to see in Philadelphia as a
result of this election?
The streets need to be cleaned up, there is too much killing
and I really would like to see the cops stop being “crooked” “Just let justice be.”
4. What impact do you feel that your vote will have on the
election?
I hope it has a big impact. The (one of the political
parties) are being ridiculous, I don’t like that, them telling us what to do
and all.
5. Did you learn about voting in school?
I learned about voting in the streets, and catching on to
what was going on around me.
Voter #2 Neighbor/Close Friend
Interview Questions and Answers
1.What motivated you to come out and vote?
I want to have a say on what’s going on in my country.
2. Do you vote in every election?
Yes.
3. What changes do you hope to see in Philadelphia as a
result of this election?
“I know that all changes can’t exactly be mad because of the
fact of it being so many changes needed to be done, but just one would be mad.
I cannot say exactly what because there is just so many, but as I said one
change would satisfy me “
4. What impact do you feel that your vote will have on the
election?
“I’m going to be a winner. I’m a senior so I’ll get
something good, I know that its going to count. If I get what I want, that’ll
be great.“
5. Did you learn about voting in school? If yes, did that
impact your willingness to vote today?
Of course, in school we would have like a play example of
the presidential election and there we would be able to vote. Also in my house,
I grew up with parents who thought of voting as a must; to have a say on what
you thought in the country and what was going on.
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Voter #3 Woman
Interview Questions and Answers
1.What motivated you to come out and vote?
The negative
adds on television made me want to come out and vote so that can be changed.
2. Do you vote in every election? (How regularly do you
vote?)
Almost every election, some reasons on why I don’t wouldn’t
vote depended on the whether, how I felt, work.. etc Although I have been in
general regularly voting since 1976.
3. What changes do you hope to see in Philadelphia as a
result of this election?
I’m hoping that the mess in Philadelphia will get cleaned up
as well as with the economy that needs to get “cleaned up” as well.
4. Did you learn about voting in school? If yes, did that
impact your willingness to vote today?
Yes I did learn about voting in school, although no I do not
think that, by that happening it has a impact on my willingness to vote today..
Reflection:
All right, so after my first interview, I had an altercation
with the judge of elections, he found out about the assignment and asked me how
old I was, I told him my age and he immediately responded to my answer with a
stern “No you cannot be under the age of 18 talking about political subjects.”
He then took my paper and said he was to call his DA and ask them about it. I
honestly within that moment of time pondered on the statement. Being as though
I’m not 18 I cannot have speak on political subjects? That’s very interesting,
I actually feel otherwise. Why shouldn’t I have a say or speak upon political
subjects? I do live in this country… I mean it just makes sense that I should,
if in history class we speak on the subject of voting, which is a political
subject, when I come to just ask a voter a few questions on the importance and
meaning of voting to them, why would I have to be 18 to do such? Anyways, when
the judge of elections, went to call his DA, his DA simply felt that it was all
right, just to do the assignment I was sent out to do, in which in that case I
finished interviewing some voters. I understood that it is never okay to ask a
voter on whom they have voted for. That is just impolite, and I would never;
that is personal and morally wrong. The assignment wasn’t to question any voter
on whom they voted for, but for the voter to know their rights as a voter, and
for the voter to be informed on the importance of voting.
