Friday, July 18th, 2008
Why Tuesday? in Newsday *
As I just Tweeted, Newsday is running this article today about U.S. Rep. Steve Israel’s gig as a Why Tuesday? Correspondent and his work to push the Weekend Voting Act, which he introduced. On that note, Doug Chapin of ElectionLine.org says in the article he doesn’t think changing Election Day is going to help voter participation.
“Tuesday has history and inertia on its side,” said Chapin. “Changing it is more trouble than leaving it where it is.”
With the article, Newsday is running some exclusive video we provided them of Rep. Israel’s interview with Rep. Gary Ackerman, of New York, like Israel.
* UPDATE: Please see the comment from Doug Chapin of electionline.org for a clarification.
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