‘Oscars’ Category

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

And The Oscar Goes To… Election Reform

Oscar Ballot

As you know if you’re familiar with our work at Why Tuesday?, the United States ranks near the bottom of all countries in the world in voter participation. Yet our politicians time and again have failed to implement election reforms that help insure that voting is a democratic imperative, not just a right that we have to in some cases literally wait on hours-long lines, or take time off from our jobs, to protect.

Just because the powers that be in Washington, our state capitols and our local governments haven’t been able to enact wide-ranging election reforms (some friends of ours in D.C. have attempted to), it doesn’t mean that the folks at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences aren’t trying. This year, as you fill out your Oscars ballot (and feel free to download your own by clicking here or the image above), you will be a part of election reform history as the ballot-counting method changes from top-vote-getter to Instant Runoff Voting. (more…)

Why Tuesday? is a non-partisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2005 to find solutions to increase voter turnout and participation in elections.

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