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Election Day 2008: Hour One

Bo Lipari, executive director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting speaks about voting problems--and what voters can do about them--in New York and elsewhere.

Then
Bob Hennelly, WNYC reporter, talks about the races in New Jersey--and why he thinks the Garden State is at a generational crossroads.

Then
Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, reporter for Feet in 2 Worlds and the Polish Daily News, joins us live from a polling site in Greenpoint.

Check out the Feet in 2 Worlds twitter feed

Then
Elizabeth Fiedler, news reporter for WHYY in Philadelphia, talks to us live from a polling site in North Philadelphia.

Then
Fred Echols, All Things Considered Host WVTF, Virginia Public Radio, joins us to break down what's happening in Virginia.

Throughout the show we'll be taking your voting stories from all over the New York Region. How did it feel to vote? Comment below with your experience!

And: is watching the returns an event for you? Where do you watch?

Bo Lipari's information and advice for New York State voters this Election Day
Additonal voter resources from the New York Times

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Election Day 2008: Hour Two

Daniel Moulthrop, from WCPN Cleveland Public Radio's "Sound of Ideas" public affairs show, talks about the swing state of Ohio,

Then
Eduardo de Oliveira, reporter for the New England Ethnic Newswire at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, and the Nashua Telegraph, as well as the Feet in 2 Worlds project, describes the scene in New Hampshire.

Then
Allison Fine, co-founder of Twitter Vote Report, senior editor at Personal Democracy Forum, and author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age, will talk about Twitter Vote Report, and how it might be an antidote to a complicated Election Day.

Then
Dave Dewitt, reporter at WUNC, North Carolina Public Radio, joins us to break down what's happening in North Carolina.

Then
Douglas Kellner, co-chair of New York State's Board of Elections and partner in the law firm of Kellner Herlihy Getty & Friedman, and Penny Venetis, professor at Rutgers Law School and co-director of constitutional litigation clinic at Rutgers Law School, discuss voting in New York and New Jersey.

Then
Molly Ball, political reporter for the Las Vegas Review Journal, discusses voting in Nevada.

Then
Adaora Udoji, The Takeaway's co-host, is in Georgia for Election Day. She talks about the voting there.

Throughout the show we'll be taking your voting stories from all over the New York Region. How did it feel to vote? Comment below with your experience!

And: is watching the returns an event for you? Where do you watch?

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