Vietnam Votes: Election First Step Toward Democracy
Vietnam Votes: Election First Step Toward Democracy
In South Vietnam, more than four million voters cast ballots to elect a Constituent Assembly. The elected assembly will create a new constitution and propose national elections. The heavy turnout at the polls is seen as a victory over Vietcong terror tactics. MS a city street in South Vietnam, people riding bikes, pedestrians walking and some driving. A few walking people stop to look at a bulletin board that has campaigning pictures posted on it. Above the door of a polling place are a Vietnamese sign and men walking into the building to cast their vote. CUS Women and men queue up to register to vote. MS Personnel working and sitting at the voter registration table. MS Woman walks into a voting booth to cast her vote, closing the curtain. CUS as a woman and man drop their ballots into a voter box. CU Vietnamese woman exiting the polling booth as another woman wearing a coolie hat drops her ballot into a box. High Angle shot of voting personnel counting the ballots. CU of hands opening votes.