The Symposium I attended on Tuesday was titled 'What Kind of DemocracyDo We Want?' The introduction speaker was Keene States Provost Emile Netzhammer in which he talked about citizenship and he strives for everyone to get to the polls and participate in their elections to get their voice heard. The first main speaker was Nancy Tobi and she talked about Citizens Gone Wild. Taking control of our democracy. The two parts of our democracy are Citizen oversight and free and open elections. In New Hampshire there are two approved means of counting votes and they are Hand counting and debold. Debold being the more popular at 81 % and hand counting with 18%, we are striving for more votes to be hand counted. Nacny stated that we people have the rights to abolish or change the government elections or revolutions. And one quote that i found very interesting was, "The people who cast the votes don't decide the election, the people who count the votes do."
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