Live From Main Street Columbus: Will Your Vote Count?

Voting Rights, Voter Engagement

Columbus, Ohio, September 29

Voter turnout in the 2008 primaries is at an all time high with young people registering to vote in unprecedented numbers. After two presidential elections with widespread voter disenfranchisement and many, including Ohio election officials, reporting that Ohio's voting system remains flawed--will every vote will get counted this year?

Live From Main Street's Columbus town hall is a weeklong virtual town hall series that kicks-off on September 29. Each day, Live From Main Street's virtual town hall will feature Ohio citizens and news to a national audience through televised, print and online stories. Content will include live chats, short investigative documentaries, one-on-one interviews and more. Topics include: fights around voter registration, youth organizing, voter suppression, unreliable electronic voting machines and how not to get turned away at the polls.