USA: POLITICS - Homeless and low-income voters in Los Angeles cast their ballots for the 2012 U.S. presidential election

Record ID: 344245

  • Title: USA: POLITICS - Homeless and low-income voters in Los Angeles cast their ballots for the 2012 U.S. presidential election
  • Date: 6th November 2012
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 6, 2012) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF ANNE DOUGLAS CENTER FOR WOMEN VARIOUS OF HOMELESS FRONT OF POLLING PLACE VOTERS AT VOTING BOOTHS CHESTER OSMOND FILLING OUT BALLOT (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHESTER OSMOND, UNEMPLOYED VOTER, ON VOTING FOR MITT ROMNEY, SAYING: "Well, Obama hasn't proven anything to us in the last four years. I think we need a change in office." PAN FROM POLL WORKERS TO VOTERS INTERIOR OF VOTING BOOTH VOTER FILLING OUT BALLOT WILL SCOTT TALKING TO POLL WORKERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) WILL SCOTT, VOTER, ON WHY THE HOMELESS SHOULD VOTE, SAYING: "First of all, I think it's very important for them to go out there and vote so that you have a president who's going to eliminate this problem because nobody has any business being out there in the street, no matter who you are or what you did." VOTER TALKING TO BALLOT WORKER VOTING BOOTH VARIOUS OF CATHRYN SHIVERS AT VOTING BOOTH (SOUNDBITE) (English) CATHRYN SHIVERS, VOTER, ON WHY SHE VOTED, SAYING: "I live out here but I don't want to live out here. I'm trying to do what I can. I'm part of the homeless." WIDE OF POLLING AREA WITH CATHRYN SHIVERS AT VOTING BOOTH
  • Embargoed: 21st November 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Uruguay
  • Country: Uruguay
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAAOBCUYLDH2U6B4LN84NQLY47Z
  • Story Text: Disenfranchised voters headed to the polls to have their voices heard in Los Angeles to cast ballots for the 2012 general election.
    In downtown Los Angeles, people of varied political stripes voted at the Anne Douglas Center for Women, which is a mission placed in an area with a large homeless community.

    "Obama hasn't proven anything to us in the last four years," said voter Chester Osmond, who is unemployed and voted for Mitt Romney. "I think we need a change in office."

    "I live out here but I don't want to live out here," said Cathryn Shivers, when asked why she voted. "I'm trying to do what I can. I'm part of the homeless."

    "First of all, I think it's very important for them to go out there and vote so that you have a president who's going to eliminate this problem because nobody has any business being out there in the street, no matter who you are or what you did," said Will Scott, who voted for President Barack Obama but urged people to vote, regardless of political affiliation.
    Across the rest of the country, the election between President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney is expected to go down to the wire with the results from a handful of "swing" states expected to decide the winner in a neck-and-neck race for the White House.
    National opinion polls show Obama and Romney in a virtual dead heat, although the Democratic incumbent has a slight advantage in several vital swing states - most notably Ohio - that could give him the 270 electoral votes needed to win the state-by-state contest.
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