Post by Adriana Velez
There's a messy, uncomfortable question lurking in my mind in the wake of Hurricane Sandy: How will people vote when so many polling stations have been destroyed, and when there's a gas shortage, and when so many places are still out of power? How is this going to affect the elections? Maybe voting tomorrow isn't super high on the priority list for a lot of Hurricane Sandy victims at this moment. But still, I've heard on the news that provisions were being made... or something? Anyway, that's what I told my mom when she brought it up on the phone yesterday. "Oh sure those people can still vote, no prob!" I said. And then I hung up and wondered. Will they, really?![]()
There's a messy, uncomfortable question lurking in my mind in the wake of Hurricane Sandy: How will people vote when so many polling stations have been destroyed, and when there's a gas shortage, and when so many places are still out of power? How is this going to affect the elections? Maybe voting tomorrow isn't super high on the priority list for a lot of Hurricane Sandy victims at this moment. But still, I've heard on the news that provisions were being made... or something? Anyway, that's what I told my mom when she brought it up on the phone yesterday. "Oh sure those people can still vote, no prob!" I said. And then I hung up and wondered. Will they, really?