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Published: November 4, 2008
9:33 a.m.:At the West Tampa Convention Center, first-time voter Rebecca Meza, 18, and her mother Elizabeth Meza, 37, walk out of the voting booths confident in their choice for president: Barack Obama.
"He's for the middle class," Rebecca Meza says. "I'm not rich. I'm not poor. I'm middle class."
"We're looking for something different," Elizabeth Maza says. "That's Obama."
Rebecca Maza says she had fun on Election Day despite waiting about an hour to vote.
She didn't have issues voting, but she and her mother say some people were confused about having to fill out paper ballots this election.
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