Why Tuesday? for a change
Jacob Soboroff is the founding correspondent of AMC News on the award-winning network and has hosted specials and reported from film festivals around the U.S. including the co-hosting of the NBC series School Pride.
"Why do we vote on Tuesday? We could increase voter participation if we were to vote on a different day. Go to http://whytuesday.org and become a part of the movement."
Recorded at TEDxPhoenix 2011.
I am currently teaching a class and part of the curriculum involves this subject matter. Do you have any other posts I can look at regarding this?
Photographer El Paso
As much as I respect your organization's efforts to increase voter turnout, changing the day the polls are open isn't effective. Phoenix already offers multiple voting days, including Saturday. I voted on Saturday a week and a half ago for the Mayoral run-off election. Although voter participation increased, data indicate that the increase wasn't at the polls themselves but via mailed in ballots (90% of the total ballots were submitted by mail). In a country that values the almighty dollar above nearly everything else, it is time to attach a monetary value to voting. See my solution: http://www.10000solutions.org/solution/fine-people-who-dont-vote
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