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Disenfranchised vote in LA

2012-11-07 33 Dailymotion

They may not have a home, but they do have a voice.<br/> <br />A group of homeless people in California cast their ballot in the U.S. Presidential election Tuesday at the Anne Douglas Center for Women, a shelter in downtown L.A.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) CATHRYN SHIVERS, VOTER, ON WHY SHE VOTED, SAYING:<br/> <br />"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."<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) WILL SCOTT, VOTER, ON WHY THE HOMELESS SHOULD VOTE, SAYING:<br/> <br />"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."<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) CHESTER OSMOND, UNEMPLOYED VOTER, ON VOTING FOR MITT ROMNEY, SAYING:<br/> <br />"Well, Obama hasn't proven anything to us in the last four years. I think we need a change in office."<br/> <br />Results are trickling in across the country with Obama and Romney still running neck and neck.

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