Portraits of Election Day 2010

Hundreds of thousands of New York voters made their voices heard on Election Day 2010, keeping Democrats in power within the state while Republicans took control nationally in the U.S. House of Representatives. 

Students from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications arrived at polling places throughout Onondaga County in teams as early as 4:30 a.m. and stayed throughout Election Day. Journalism students produced work for an experimental first-time venture called Democracy in Action.

REPORTS

• Tradition, issues bring voters to the polls by Kaitlin Santanna
• Anxious moments as poll manager waits for her staff by Louie Rendon
• West Side voters say they aren't looking for change by Marisa DeCandido
• The right to vote by Gina Colonette and Brian Dawson
• Vote 2010: Scenes from Skaneateles polling sites by Lauren Malinowski
• Syracuse voters suspicious of new machines by Julia Shanahan and Chari Bayanker

SCENES

Waiting for Mom by Mackenzie Reiss

Still running by Manuel Martinez

Guitar man by Jason Robertson

VIDEOS