Three Young Cousins Cast Their First Votes

Joel Millman reports on Election Day from South Bismarck, N.D. Three young men, all first-time voters, found voting a snap at Prairie Rose Elementary School in South Bismarck, N.D. Kelvin Kirkie, Josh Coleman and Matt St. John outside the Prairie Rose Elementary School in South Bismarck, N.D., where they voted Tuesday. (Photo by Joel Millman, The Wall Street Journal) Kelvin Kirkie , 18 years old, Josh Coleman , 20, and Matt St. John , 22, are cousins, enrolled at the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, N.D., They are from the Crow Creek Sioux tribe, whose reservation is based in Fort Thompson, S.D. The town is in Buffalo County, ranked the nation’s poorest. “We’re the top of the bottom of the heap,” St. John said. All three support Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama . Dressed in baggy hip-hop clothing, two with spikey haircuts, the students stood out from the suburban matrons and retired couples voting at the Prairie Rose ... (link)