The Pulse of Albany: Election Day 2009
Journalism 1 Students
Issue date: 10/28/09 Section: News
By Caitlin Farrell, Jared Schadewald, Justin Colton, Michelle Fazio, Mary Kate Lenseth, Zachary Austin, Michael Bellizzi, Stephanie Schuyler, Jonathan Pratt and Regis Holman, Heather Dingman and Tennyson Snyder
ALBANY - Voting traffic was slow Tuesday at the 10th ward polls at The College of Saint Rose, but residents and visitors in the college's neighborhood still had thoughts about this year's election.
An employee at the Capital Q Smokehouse on Ontario Street, lives and works in the 10th ward and said he planned to vote later in the day at his polling place at St. Vincent's Community Center.
A registered Republican, 45-year-old Sean Custer told The Chronicle he intended to vote in the city's mayoral race. His global sentiment on election day: "When in doubt, throw them out."
A music education major at Saint Rose planned to return home to Troy to vote. Junior Kate Steele said she was enrolled with the Working Families Party and had not yet decided for whom she was voting.
While she is registered with the Independent party, another junior, Breanne Pfeiffer, said she would not vote today "'cause I don't know anything about it." In fact, when first approached, she was not aware it was election day.
Now 90-years-old, Eleanor Thompson, already voted for mayoral candidate Corey Ellis by midday.
We need a new mayor," said Thompson, who attended Saint Rose. She was just 12 when she first went to the polls with her father and she has gone ever since. "It's my duty. I'm only one voice and it's the only way I could use it."
She said young people are complacent and that she things Ellis can make changes in city government - "if he has grit and support he can make change."
On the other side of the aisle was Edna Rinaldi, a lifelong Democrat who was standing in her usual spot outside of the CVS on the corner of Main and Madison. For years she served there as a crossing guard. Rinaldi supports Mayor Jerry Jennings. She said the mayor needs to stay in office and finish the job he is doing including making the city streets safer.
ALBANY - Voting traffic was slow Tuesday at the 10th ward polls at The College of Saint Rose, but residents and visitors in the college's neighborhood still had thoughts about this year's election.
An employee at the Capital Q Smokehouse on Ontario Street, lives and works in the 10th ward and said he planned to vote later in the day at his polling place at St. Vincent's Community Center.
A registered Republican, 45-year-old Sean Custer told The Chronicle he intended to vote in the city's mayoral race. His global sentiment on election day: "When in doubt, throw them out."
A music education major at Saint Rose planned to return home to Troy to vote. Junior Kate Steele said she was enrolled with the Working Families Party and had not yet decided for whom she was voting.
While she is registered with the Independent party, another junior, Breanne Pfeiffer, said she would not vote today "'cause I don't know anything about it." In fact, when first approached, she was not aware it was election day.
Now 90-years-old, Eleanor Thompson, already voted for mayoral candidate Corey Ellis by midday.
We need a new mayor," said Thompson, who attended Saint Rose. She was just 12 when she first went to the polls with her father and she has gone ever since. "It's my duty. I'm only one voice and it's the only way I could use it."
She said young people are complacent and that she things Ellis can make changes in city government - "if he has grit and support he can make change."
On the other side of the aisle was Edna Rinaldi, a lifelong Democrat who was standing in her usual spot outside of the CVS on the corner of Main and Madison. For years she served there as a crossing guard. Rinaldi supports Mayor Jerry Jennings. She said the mayor needs to stay in office and finish the job he is doing including making the city streets safer.
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