Voters waited an average of 5 minutes to vote at the Cathedral Church of the Nativity on Wyandotte Street in Bethlehem between 4-5:30 p.m on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amanda Carryon said she decided to vote today because of the impact of deportations on the Hispanic community.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carryon said she\u2019s Hispanic and works primarily with Hispanic people, who she said are very hard-working and good to the country. She said it\u2019s heartbreaking to see what is happening to the Hispanic community.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carryon and her friends Aileen Martinez and Josayra Martinez said they voted for Democrats on the ballot because these candidates aligned with their beliefs about human rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love for this world to change,\u201d Josayra Martinez said. \u201cAnd I want my kids to live in a good world too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amanda Little said she doesn\u2019t usually vote in midterms, but she was motivated to vote today because of issues such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u00a0 and abortions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Little said she voted for Democrats because she felt the candidates hit most of the criteria she was looking for, but said she remains interested to see if they take action after being elected.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s just a lot on the line with this election,\u201d Little said. \u201cI think it\u2019s really important to just make sure that everybody does their part to fulfill our civil duty of making sure that we have the right people in charge and making those decisions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Human rights and ICE were also the main issues on Peter Strong\u2019s mind, who said he voted for Democrats.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Strong said he wished he saw more of a push for universal healthcare from the candidates on the ballot.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters waited an average of 5 minutes to vote at the Cathedral Church of the Nativity on Wyandotte…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4818,119,121,120,6223,153,50],"class_list":["post-320685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-2-minute-read","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-analysis","tag-bethlehem","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}