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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
John Bonifaz ran for secretary of state of Massachusetts, is the founder of the National Voting Rights Institute, and is currently the legal director of Voter Action. We took a trip to his office in Amherst, Massachusetts, and he responded to a couple of comments left on our videos.
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[...] Bloomberg, Rep. Steve Israel and John McCain’s daughter–an independent, a Democrat and Republican–supporting moving Election Day to the weekend in order to increase voter turnout...
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Given the history, how does anyone who lives closer than a day from his/her polling place really complain about being too busy? You can make it any day you like...
Posted by Jon on blog post Why Do We Vote On Tuesday?
October 25th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
It was nice to hear from John. I think that the video format is very limited for responding to specific comments. You only got to two of them in this clip. So I encourage John to actively comment on WT? videos and WT? blog entries.
Regarding the second comment that John responded to: John failed to acknowledge that there are proposals that allow voters to verify their vote. One such system is called PunchScan.
http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/27/the-punchscan-voting-system/