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The "Why I Voted" Project: Real people explain their votes


We asked 22 people across Chicago why they voted. Watch, discuss and rate their answers. Then share your own.
by BradFlora and Tania Karas
Published November 5, 2008 - 11:19 AM
The "Why I Voted" Project: Real people explain their votes
Every vote's got a story behind it.  What's yours?

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Voting's a pain.

You have to take off time from work...wait in line...study up on candidates whose positions seem impossible to pin down.

Meanwhile economists and statisticians busy themselves every year explaining just how meaningless any one vote really is.

And yet record numbers of Americans turned out to vote in this year's historic national election all last week and yesterday. Why?

Having heard quite enough from the pundits this season, we decided to ask actual American voters on their way out of Chicago polling places. We're calling this the "Why I Voted" project.

Tania Karas (our intrepid intern) and I interviewed 22 people outside of polling places in the
Chicago area.

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01/ 1 year 13 weeks ago
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Interesting project, guys.

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