(25 Oct 2024)
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Columbus, Ohio – 25 October 2024
1. Various of Norbert Lubamba and wife Rosette Batumike delivering their mail-in ballots
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Norbert Lubamba, Ohio Resident:
“I’m excited to vote because it was my first time to vote in the United States and I feel like it’s good because in my country we didn’t have that opportunity to vote, but today I feel really great because it was my first time, you see?”
3. Lubamba and Batumike celebrating after voting
4. Various of Blaise Balazire and others walking in to the Franklin County Board of Elections
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Anitha Kavuna, Ohio Resident:
“It’s good for us as immigrants because we are legally, you know, naturalized, so we have this opportunity to express our choice.”
6. Tight of people walking in line
7. Various of Balazire and others in line to vote
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Blaise Balazire, Ohio Resident:
“Some of us that have never had the chance to vote in our own countries, this is great to express our democracy.”
9. Various of Balazire showing his registration
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Blaise Balazire, Ohio Resident:
“Yeah, I came in 2016, and then I got my citizenship in 2022, so this is also my first time in my life coming and vote.”
11. Medium of Balazire voting
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Blaise Balazire, Ohio Resident:
“I’m feeling excited. I’m feeling excited. I can’t wait to be online and express, you know, my democracy right.”
13. Tight of Balazire voting
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Blaise Balazire, Ohio Resident:
“No, I just want to tell everybody that please go out and vote. So it’s your right. For all immigrant refugees that have been citizens, that have been, you know, naturalized, go out and vote.”
15. Medium of Balazire casting ballot
STORYLINE:
Organizations working with immigrants and refugees on Friday gathered a group of naturalized citizens living in Ohio to cast their votes in the 2024 Election.
Community organizers with Church World Service and the Community Refugee, Immigration Service, Ohio and the Columbus Refugee and Immigrants Voices met outside of the Franklin County Board of Elections and hosted a Get Out the Vote event for new Americans to vote for the very first time.
“Some of us that have never had the chance to vote in our own countries, this is great to express our democracy,” said Blaise Balazire, a community organizer with Church World Service and a first-time voter.
Balazire immigrated to the United States from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2016. He became a naturalized citizen in 2022.
Norbert Lubamba and wife Rosette Batumike delivered their first votes via mail-in ballots. They cheered as they attached stickers with the phrase “I Voted” onto their clothes.
AP Video shot by Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos
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