Millions Stuck With Tuesday Voting
This election cycle we’ve partnered with Academy Award-winning Participant Media to produce Take Part on Tuesday. There you’ll find stories that bring the issues the candidates are talking about to life.
As part of the initiative, I’m hosing a new video series called Civics in a Minute in which we… you got it… explain U.S. civics lessons like the Electoral College or who picks the Vice President in about a minute.
Today’s topic: why we vote on Tuesdays.
The video contains a fact we don’t highlight enough, and is perhaps the most important statistic in the fight to move Election Day from Tuesday to the weekend:
15 states and tens of millions of Americans have Tuesday-ONLY voting, with no option for early or absentee voting.
Watch the video to find out which states will only let you vote on Tuesday. (more…)
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