by Erin Frautschy Barrows
I’ll never forget what it felt like to wake up on November 3, 2004.
The sadness and disappointment of Senator Kerry losing the presidential election was quickly replaced by feelings of frustration and helplessness. I could not believe the injustice of what happened to voters in Ohio.
Waiting in line for 10 hours to vote? Being turned away because ballots ran out? Not enough voting machines? These were not things that happened in one of the world’s oldest democracies.
These were stories from a corrupt country, far away, where elections were regularly fixed and voting was just a technicality.