While New York voters made their way to poll booths across Onondaga County today, 130 journalism students from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications geared up to cover of Election Day 2011 for Democracy in Action.
The students, divided up into teams of writers, photographers and both TV and radio broadcasters, arrived at polling places throughout Onondaga County for two hour shiftsas early as 5 a.m. and stayed late into the night, interviewing everyone from candidates' mothers to bartenders.
Waiting for Mom by Tom Kennedy |
Democrat Helen Hudson enjoys victory embrace by Mitchell Franz |
Republican supporters watch as results are reported via the Onondaga County Election Board website by Samantha Okazaki |
Congresswoman says new candidates will help fix the country, by AJ Manderichio
Republican candidate Ryan McMahon casts his vote at neighborhood site, by Stephanie Narvaez.
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