Democracy in Action is an Election Day project produced by student journalists in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
On Election Day, students fan out to polling places all over Onondaga County, starting from when polls open and continuing throughout the day. Rather than focusing on specific races and results, the stories feature the voters and topics like why they vote, why this election is important in their communities, what they are teaching their children about voting and why voting truly is “Democracy In Action.”
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Six-year-old Victoria Wells joined her parents at the polls on Election Day in Syracuse. Her father says bringing her along helps teach her the value of participating in local elections…
Play SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) — It’s Election Day in Syracuse, and voters are coming out to cast their ballots at polling sites like the Hazard Branch Library. Among them…
Voters from across the political spectrum urge others to participate in elections and have their voices heard.
Play SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC NEWS) -- As voters file in and out of polling places on Election Day in Syracuse, nearly 1,000 volunteers across the city are working the polls.…
A Syracuse resident who has lived in five countries says this year's election feels different to him. He urged people to come together and take care of each other.
Play Syracuse, N.Y. (NCC News) — Election Day has arrived in the city of Syracuse. With current Mayor Ben Walsh leaving office after his final term, voters will choose a…
Redeemer Covenant Church in Liverpool was one of many voting sites in Liverpool.
Liverpool voters weighed in on Proposal One, which would preserve Olympic ski and biathlon trails and add “forever wild” forest, with residents divided over conservation and development impacts.
"It is the American way to vote today," one East Syracuse resident told us as he went to cast his ballot at the Village Court.
A Baldwinsville family showed their six-year-old the importance of participating in elections.
