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American voter participation is terrible, and has been for half a century. Recent laws rolling back voting rights haven’t made things any better. Our Executive Director Jacob Soboroff teamed up with Participant Media’s TakePart.com and hit the road to track down 2012 GOP presidential candidates Romney, Gingrich and Santorum to ask them how they’d protect your right to vote. Watch Jacob’s journey in this short film, then join our movement by signing our petition to move Election Day to the weekend so more people can vote.

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CBS: Time to stop voting Tuesdays?

I was at the CBS News Broadcast Center in New York last week to talk about our push to move Election Day to Saturday and Sunday to increase turnout. I sat down with senior political reporter Brian Montopoli and told him why we think it’s time to upgrade our voting system.

In 2011, coming onto 2012, we will be voting on a day and in a way that was set for an agrarian society 160-something years ago. Frankly it literally is just silly that we’re still voting on this day when so many Americans are working two jobs, don’t necessarily have time to make it to the polls before or after work.

Watch the complete interview and let us know what you think. (more…)

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