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American voter participation is terrible, and has been for half a century. So why do we vote on Tuesday? Absolutely no good reason. Recent laws to restrict the franchise haven’t made things any better. This year, we teamed up with Participant Media’s TakePart.com to ask presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich how they’d protect your right to vote. You can join us by signing our petition in support of The Weekend Voting Act which would move Election Day to the weekend so more people can vote.

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Weekend Voting on ABC’s This Week

Welcome to those of you who are viewers of This Week With George Stephanopoulos who made your way here after hearing him talk about us this morning on ABC. The idea of moving Election Day to the weekend may be new to you, but it’s not to Stephanopoulos. In 2008, he endorsed the idea in an ABC News op-ed.

[Rep. Steve Israel, D-NY, and Norm Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute] argue Tuesday voting has depressed voter turnout rates in the US, and unfairly penalizes low-income voters who often choose between having to work and voting… I think Israel and Ornstein raise an important point here. Let’s go to weekend voting.

Today Stephanopoulos was responding to a viewer-submitted question about the status of the Weekend Voting Act, the bill that would move Election Day from Tuesday, where it’s been for 167 years, to Saturday and Sunday in order to increase voter turnout. (more…)

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