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American voter participation is terrible, and has been for half a century. So why do we vote on Tuesday when our voter turnout stinks? Absolutely no good reason whatsoever, as you’ll see in this TED talk by our Jacob Soboroff. This year, we teamed up with Participant Media to ask the GOP presidential candidates how they’d increase voter turnout. You can join us by signing our petition asking the President and Congress to support the Weekend Voting Act, which would move Election Day to the weekend so more people can vote.

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French Turnout Has Tweeps Talking

As we were saying… France today voted for president with an 80% turnout. Today, as in a Sunday. And why do we vote on Tuesday again in the United States, where our turnout averages 50%? Oh, that’s right. No good reason.

One of our major disappointments with the recent U.S. Government Accountability Office study about implementing nationwide weekend voting was that it didn’t look at voter turnout in other countries with weekend voting. The good news is, people are starting to take notice.

Today a few of Twitter’s boldface names — and many more — pointed out how silly it is America votes smack in the middle of the work week. First came the realization that France had turnout we’ve only dreamed of in the United States, by Anthony De Rosa of Reuters.

After his tweet, the conversation starting picking up. (more…)

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