2022 Election

Voters Hit the Polls at Onondaga Town Hall

By Paige Hayes

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PAIGE HAYES: Today I’m standing outside of the many voting locations for New York’s 22nd district. Today, voters are taking it to the polls to get their voices heard.

JOAN HOPKINS: To me is it’s our voice. You know, as an American and the people that represent us. I want to have a say in that.”)

HAYES: Joan Hopkins continues by saying voting is a part of our responsibility, so we have a voice in our government. Jeffrey Rudiger has lived in the area for over 50 years and says he is voting for change.

JEFFREY RUDIGER: “It’s a big election for the state. And I think that we need to have change in the state, so I exercise my right.”

HAYES: Carolyn Scialdone has lived in the Syracuse area for over 25 years and has been voting ever since she turned 18.

CAROLYN SCIALDONE: We’re very fortunate in America that we have a right to say who our government leaders are. I don’t think we should ever take that for granted. And that’s why I chose choose to vote every year.”)

HAYES: Other voters like Andrew Bright, who has lived in Onondaga Hill for thirty years says that since it’s before dinner time, there seems to be more of the older and retired generation voting.

ANDREW BRIGHT: “Hopefully the younger people will come out and vote also.”

HAYES: Bright says there’s a moral obligation to vote.

BRIGHT: “I think if we don’t vote we have nobody else to blame but ourself.”

HAYES: And as for 90-year-old Bill Smith, he sees voting as a way to get things done.

HAYES: I’m Paige Hayes reporting at Onondaga Town Hall for Democracy in Action. 

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (DIA)- The polls in Onondaga County have been very busy as Central New Yorkers vote for the 2022 midterm elections. Onondaga Town Hall, located at 5020 Ball Rd. in Syracuse was one of the many voting locations of the 22nd Congressional district. 

 

Joan Hopkins, who has lived in Syracuse for over 25 years said that she usually does early voting but since she didn’t get around to doing that this year, she wanted to make sure she came to the polls today.

 

“It’s our right, and we should do it,” Hopkins said. “It’s part of our responsibility so that we have a voice in our government.”

 

“To me, it’s our voice,” Hopkins said.

 

Hopkins said that as an American, she wants to have a say in the people that represent us.

 

A neighbor of Hopkins that also has lived in the area for over 25 years, Carolyn Scialdone said, “I have voted single year since I turned 18 and it’s a fundamental right that I think that everybody should do.”

 

“We’re very fortunate in America that we have a right to say who our government leaders are,” said Scialdone following, “I don’t think we should ever take that for granted and that’s why I chose to vote every year.”

 

Jeffrey Rudiger, who has lived in Syracuse for over 50 years said that he believes that it is his duty to get out and vote as an American. He said that regardless of your political party, everyone should get out and vote. 

 

“It’s a big election for the state and I think that we need to have change in the state, so I exercise my right,” said Rudiger.

 

Paige Barone, who went voting today with her husband Anthony Barone said that she is choosing to vote today because she thinks that every vote counts.

 

“If we’re able to have a say in how our country is run, I think it’s really important that we make an effort towards that,” said Barone.

 

Andrew Bright, who has lived in Onondaga Hill for 30 years said that there were a lot of good candidates that will hopefully get elected. 

 

“I think if I don’t vote we have nobody else to blame but ourselves,” said Bright.

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