Over the long weekend, interview someone who has lived in another country about their experience voting or what they know about voting in that country. Summarize the results by writing your own post here- just a paragraph! Try to comment on ONE of your classmates' posts before class. Some potential questions you came up with today:
· What age can you vote? · Are there any gender restrictions? Are there separate poling places? · How do you physically vote- what are the machines like? Are there machines or ballots? (What are the protocols for voting) · Where are the voting centers? How many are or were there? · What are your thoughts about voting there? How did or does it feel to vote? · What was your first experience voting like?
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Liliana D.
10/7/2012 12:59:38 am
I interviewed my father, Roberto Di Giuseppe. I talked to him about what the voting system is like in Italy. There were similar things in Italy that is also done in America but of course there is also differences. You have to be 18 years old to vote and you have to be an Italian citizen. The voting machines are the same like in America. Located in schools, you go into a private booth and after your done deciding who you vote for you put your paper in the ballot. There are also police and military surrounding the area. Though you have to show ID to vote, if your ID is expired you can't vote. He also said in Italy you have a president and a prime minister. The president is elected every seven years. When I asked him what are his thoughts on voting he said, “Its necessary to have the right person to do the right thing for our country so I'm proud to vote.” I then asked him what was his first experience voting was like and he said, “First time I voted was when I was 18 and I felt like I could finally help make a difference for my country”. It was fun to learn about how voting was like in another country.
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Briana E
10/8/2012 06:54:56 am
In Ireland just like in Italy and America you must 18 to vote.
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Yennifer P.
10/7/2012 04:30:53 am
I interviewed by mom and my father. They are both from Colombia. They said that you need to be 18 and a Colombian citizen. There is an identification almost like your ID in the United States only it never expires. In order to vote you need to line up out the school that the Colombian district gave you when you registered you ID. They will send you the address of where to vote. After you look at the papers hanged up and you find your ID number. This tells you what table to vote in. You go and vote and after you are done voting you put in finger in red ink that lasts 6-8 days in order to avoid fraud. It was nice learning about voting in Colombia.
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Jessica Toro
10/7/2012 01:52:03 pm
I find it amazing that we have similar stories because both our parents are from Colombia. i learned about the fraud thing with you because my mom really didn`t remember what they did.
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Hafsa
10/7/2012 06:12:51 am
I interviewed my mother, Malika Zeroual about the voting in Morocco. My mother has only voted once and that was when my father was running. Morocco is a constitutional monarchy that has a multi-party system and the head of the government is the Prime Minister and the head of the state is the King. Morocco also consists of many branches and most people vote for a representative. For example, when my father ran in 1992 he ran against many other people and their role was to represent a certain place in Morocco. Every place (like every state) has their own representative. The representatives are part of different parties and whatever party wins decides who will lead their own party. The age to vote in Morocco is 18 years old or anyone with an ID card. Voting is considered very important and often takes place in hospitals, schools, etc; The lines are quite large. Both genders can vote and in fact 30 members of the representatives have to be women. To show that you voted they ink your thumb with red paint. There isn't any trafficking when it comes to community/representative voting but it does happen when it comes to voting for the bigger head of the government. The representatives do sometimes pay people to vote for them though. In the end, the king appoints the prime minister.
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Leslie M.
10/8/2012 01:54:37 pm
I found it surprising how the voting in Morocco is similar to the voting in Peru due to the way that both countries have a multi-party system. I also became interested when you mentioned that at least 30 members of the representatives had to be women which shows how women are striving for gender equality even in the politics.
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Jessica Toro
10/7/2012 01:49:52 pm
I interviewed my mom Rosalba Ramirez who is a Colombian citizen and she did vote over there. She said voting is very similar to here. In order to vote you have to be 18 and have a specific ID. She explained that you had to be register at the municipal level. After she said you register they send you the address on where to vote through the mail. There is always two people running against each other and you chose you want to pick and its on booths when she use to vote and they were usually at schools. She said that she only was able to vote ones because she came to America when she was 21 and voting was every four years. When she was able to vote she felt like a real citizen.
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Jodecy Rivas
10/9/2012 07:43:08 am
Colombian voting is just like American voting
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Briana E.
10/8/2012 06:46:57 am
I research the voting rights and regulations in Ireland. In Ireland you must be 18 years old to vote. Irish citizen can vote at an time. To be able to vote you must be registered at on address. If you are living aboard you can not vote during Ireland elections. If you have a physical illness or disability, full-time member of the Deference Force or studying full time at a college you do not have to be at the voting polls to vote.
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Briana E.
10/8/2012 06:53:49 am
Also, 70% of people in Ireland vote. Ireland had e-voting machines that were later discovered people can hack into them and the elections could be fake. Now they use polling cards were you must mark in with a X who you are voting for. They use voting cards that identified who you are.
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Reyhan A.
10/8/2012 10:14:40 am
I find it beneficial how if the person is physically unable to get to the polls they're willing to let them vote from their own home; it saves the struggle.
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Liliana D.
10/9/2012 08:57:50 am
I agree. I think it's a nice way for people to still vote even though they have a physical illness or disability. I interviewed my father Ramo Besi. I former Yugoslavia my dad, Ramo Besi, was unable to vote because Tito was president at the moment and his party was recognized as a dictatorship, he was a communist therefore there was no voting. Not being able to vote didn't affect my dad in any way because even though Tito was communist the country was run amazingly and everyone was happy with their lives. Tito was the only dictator that actually loved his country my father said."Tito was a benevolent dictator, he uses authority to benefit his country" My dad said. Everyone felt safe because Tito knew what he was doing, and he was doing everything right for his country.
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Leslie M.
10/8/2012 02:07:30 pm
In connection to your dad's interview when he talks about how in your country it was governed by a nice dictator it is also similar to how when my mom for the first time was going to vote she didn't know that she was voting for a future dictator because like the tactics that many dictators use to promise the people of the country (especially one that was in huge crisis) that they will be able to make things better, I wonder if that's how Tito got into power?
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Hafsa
10/8/2012 10:02:50 pm
It's interesting to see the view of voting from someone who lived through communism
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Yennifer P.
10/9/2012 12:31:24 pm
i am shocked to learn that in history there was a beneficial dictador because i thought there would never be such thing. Emily, your interview proved me wrong!
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Nadia
10/8/2012 10:21:54 am
I am interviewing my mom and she started voting in Mexico. She started voting at the age of 18, and had to be a Mexican Citizen. You need a special ID that gave you permission to vote and it expired every ten years. You needed to go to a certain place and in this place your name was located, your name wasn’t located in all places it was only located in one place. You voted on a ballot all names were placed there and you could only vote once. As a sign, your finger was painted black and this symbolized that you have voted. You would vote for a president every six years.
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Reyhan A.
10/8/2012 10:22:48 am
For my mother, Leyla Ayhan, voting in America has a great difference compared to voting in Turkey 20 years ago. She remembers her experience as waiting around a heard of people trying to get their vote in. You men were usually the ones to get their way to the ballet first unlike the mothers of most women who were left distant from the polls. My mother remembers how after a few hours of waiting in the crowd, cops came by to form an organized line which my mom was grateful for. However, the line was extremely long. So long, it came to a point where people became impatient and just left without ever placing their vote. She remembers seeing a woman send her teenage son out to get her and her children some food. When the sound returned, people on line thought he was skipping but little did they know he was only really 16 so he wasn't even able to vote. The conflict resulted with him getting sent home which my mom thought was ashamed. Eventually, she made it to the front of the line and voted. She says that coming to America a few years later and voting was a blessing, but she wouldn't mind voting in Turkey now because the organization at the polls has changed for the better.
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Amanda
10/8/2012 12:37:17 pm
I research the voting rights and regulations in Brazil.
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Leslie M.
10/8/2012 02:15:22 pm
The person I interviewed was my mom, Alicia, who was 24 years old when she began to vote in Peru. The reason many Peruvians like my mom became interested in wanting their vote to count during the Peruvian election of 1990 was because during the 80’s Peru was on the edge of an economic collapse due to the failure of successive governments. To add to matters worse a small terrorist group, known as Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), was beginning to operate violence in small provinces. By 1985, the new president, Garcia, aimed for economic policies that eventually for a while was able to control the country’s inflation but shortly after the economy began to decrease again, where Sendero took advantage to escalate its attacks. It was then that when the 90’s election was arriving one of the candidates, Fujimori, proposed during his candidacy that he was going to try eliminate terrorism since the intensification of terrorists attacks was become a grave concern to the people and nation’s security. In the eyes of many Peruvians, like my mom, Fujimori in his first 5-year term succeeded to be seen as the head figure who hopefully could alleviate the country’s political, social and economic crisis but soon turned out to become corrupt as well. Therefore several Peruvians flee the country, like my mom, where she found the American system was more organized and secured instead of vulnerable for sabotages votes like in Peru. For the voting process my mother said that officials had you mark down your middle finger fingerprint right next to your signature. They would give you a slip with all the candidates on it for you to check off only one and slip it into the ballot. Lastly, you would present the officials your electoral handbook in order for them to stamp it so you would be able to have personal proof of the years you have voted in case you were accidentally fined for not voting.
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