YouTube is hosting a contest on behalf of the World Economic Forum. The highest-rated videos will be screened in Davos (January 23-27), where world leaders will watch the videos and upload responses of their own. Here’s our entry, shot today outside the United Nations. (more…)
ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA — Greetings from the press filing center at the Progress Energy Center. We’re on the lookout for questions about our voting system, just like we were last time around at the CNN/YouTube Democratic debate. Stay tuned for updates. Watch the question we submitted, and follow along with the debate, after the jump. (more…)
ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA — Last night Tom, our trusty field producer and camera man, and I hit the road to come here for CNN/YouTube debate… but the journey didn’t start as planned. Stay tuned for more from the debate… and yes, we made it! (more…)
Check out this video put together by Why Tuesday? Advisory Board member and YouTube News & Politics chief Steve Grove from St. Petersburg, Florida. They’re getting ready for tomorrow night’s debate. Pretty sweet. (more…)
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Recently the election reform group and friend of WT? FairVote launched an election reform video-for-cash contest of their own, and they even throw in a trip to Washington for the winner! The contest is called Upgrade Democracy, and here’s the prompt from them, complete with a video!
“If you could change anything you wanted about elections, what would our democracy look like?”
You could win $2000 and have your video seen by celebrity judges like filmmaker Richard Linklater (School of Rock, Dazed and Confused), political guru Donna Brazile,The Daily Show’s Dan Bakkedahl, and former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic!
For ideas, see FairVote’s reform proposals — a national popular vote for president, instant runoff voting for executive offices, proportional voting for legislatures, universal voter registration and a constitutional right to vote — but let your intellect and imagination run wild.
A cool contest, and a cool group. Learn more at upgradedemocracy.com. Some video responses to FairVote’s contest are after the jump. (more…)
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The Answer
In 1845, before Florida, California, and Texas were states or slavery had been abolished, Congress needed to pick a time for Americans to vote... More
Patrick, France is a post-Christian secular country. Relatively few of them attend church, and voting on Sunday does not interfere with their religious practices, because most of the population is not religious...
I think weekend voting would make the most sense, as people wouldn't have tu run home after work or wake up early to hit the polling stations beforehand.
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