HW 30a : Citizenship Symposium 1

The Syposium that I attended was called "Citizens Gone Wild" and the speaker was Nancy Tobi. Nancy spoke mainly of democracy and how it came to be. Nancy grew up in Lexington, Ma. Throughout Nancy's speach she explained about the state of New Hampshire, and how their votes are counted.She discussed two ways in which votes can be counted, a hand count vote with community counters, and then the Diebold count which is eighty-one percent of how the voted are counted. One way to get the votes to be counted in an open meeting is to bring it up with a petition in your town meeting. The main discussion and point that I got out of Nancy's speech, is that hand counting ballots is a lot more beneficial and accurate than a machine doing most of the work. We may not think this to be the case but there are proven to be a lot more errors in machine counting than in regular counting. Basically Tobi is trying to get across the point of how our government is run, and how the Declaration of Independence has an effect on how the government is run.