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Why Tuesday?” has launched a drive to shift America away from the traditional Tuesday Election Day to Saturday and Sunday voting, which would better enable people who can least afford to take time away from their jobs or their families to exercise their Constitutional right to vote.
“Tuesday truly is the last vestige of the poll tax,” said William J. Wachtel, the group’s co-founder. “For the single moms, people with two jobs, voting is nearly impossible.”
“Why Tuesday?,” founded in 2005 as a way to increase voter turnout and participation in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, is asking Democratic incumbent President Barack Obama and the 2012 Republican presidential candidates to submit videos of them answering whether or not they believe America’s voting system is broken; what they would specifically do to fix it if they think it’s broken, and what type of legislation they would like to see in a Voting Rights Act of 2012.
It’s a reprise of the 2008 effort in which “Why Tuesday?” Executive Director Jacob Soboroff and a friend drove cross-country in a rented car and asked federal lawmakers and presidential candidates – including Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona – why election days are on Tuesdays.
Almost no one gave the correct answer.
According to “Why Tuesday?” officials, Tuesday voting has its roots in American agriculture in the late 1800s.
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