Oakland votes 2016: The day in photos
on November 8, 2016
On Election Day 2016, Oakland North photographers roamed the city. They captured images of voters at the polls, last minute campaign pushes, volunteers phone banking efforts, watch parties and other political scenes from across the city.
Click the arrows on the photo slideshow above to scroll through the photos.
Photo slideshow assembled by Briana Flin. Photos by Samantha Clark, Rosa Furneaux, Margaret Katcher, Ryan Lindsay, Yesica Prado, and Olivia Rempel.
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- As a Polish immigrant, Irene, 29, couldn’t vote today, but she brought her husband Daniel Luna, 35, to the polls. Photo by Margaret Katcher
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- Lynn Elliott-Harding, 65, a Yes on HH campaign volunteer, talked to voters outside the SGI-USA polling spot. Photo by Margaret Katcher
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- Alicia Crawford, 45, is especially excited about voting for Measure A1 and supporting affordable housing. Photo by Margaret Katcher
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- Oakland teacher Vania Deonizio, 42, is originally from Brazil, and says that as an immigrant she is hopeful that her vote for Hillary Clinton will “keep someone so full of hate” out of the White House. Photo by Margaret Katcher
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- Beth Barany, 48, says that as she voted for Hillary Clinton, she thought of the women in her family who came before her, some suffragettes and some abortion rights activists. Photo by Margaret Katcher
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- Schools, community centers, and even fire stations are acting as polling stations across Oakland. Photo by Rosa Furneaux
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- William Douglas and Tim Hoyt, firefighters at Oakland Fire Station 5, outside the polling station. Photo by Rosa Furneaux
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- Some in Oakland express frustration at their choice for president. Here, a sign for Bernie Sanders remains outside a house near a polling station. Photo by Rosa Furneaux
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- Brooke Williams, 25, votes at Oakland Fire Station 5. Photo by Rosa Furneaux
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- Oakland resident Jim Forte stands outside the Niebyl-Proctor Library, waiting for his wife to finish voting. Photo by Ryan Lindsay.
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- People react happily to the turn around of Clinton’s poll counts. It’s 7:41, the current score casting on CNN coverage is 190-170, in favor of Clinton, at a political watch party at the Temescal Brewery on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Photo by Yesica Prado.
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- Calvin Williams, who works with the Movement Strategy Center, speaks at an election party for Measure JJ at Solespace in Oakland. Photo by Samantha Clark.
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- The sign outside the Room 389 election watch party. Photo by Olivia Rempel.
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Special thanks to reporter, Sofia Memo, for stopping by the Oakland for Hillary campaign headquarters on 11/8…She and another reporter were there taking photographs and interviewing volunteers on the eve of this historic election.
After a divisive 2016 campaign in which truth was distorted by the words of a serial liar who has become our next President(!), UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism is more important than ever.
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