How they voted: making a first visit to the polling booth

Vincent Terry,  42, was voting for the first time.

An African American truck driver who sports a silver ring in his nose, Terry said he supported President Bush in principle after 9/11, but was moved to go to the polls because of the chance to vote for Barack Obama.

"Now we live in a time of change," he said. "It's time for America to change."

Terry said he had tried to vote early in San Francisco on Monday and waited three hours in line only to learn that his polling place was across the bay in Oakland, where he lives. He was happy to find only a short line today.

"This is my first time," he said. "I always took the attitude, 'What is my vote going to do?' "

Also important to Terry was the chance to vote for Proposition 8. "I'm not against gay people," he said, "but I'm against gay society that everyone should accept."

—Richard C. Paddock

Comments

[ginalollobrigida]

Black folks vote for Obama because he's half black and they feel it's okay because America needs change.

But if a white voter exercises their right to vote for McCain because he's white, then that voter is being racist.

Doesn't anyone see a double standard in all this???

[Browne]

I have real issues with this little blurb. The LA Times only covers the black community when someone gets shot and then they search and search and search to find this one ignorant person who spouts out this Yes On 8 non sense and that's pretty much it for non Bernand Parks, Ridley-Thomas black community coverage. Why doesn't the LA Times just pretend like we don't exist since the point of the black community for the LA Times seems to be to spread racist propaganda in the "I'm not touching you way" across the internet.