Why Vote on Tuesdays? By DAVID S. BRODER, Washington Post

If Andrew Young

has his way, never again will we have a Tuesday election. The former mayor of Atlanta and ambassador to the United Nations wants to

switch the nation’s voting to the weekend. …

All of these problems, Young says, contribute to the low turnouts in American

elections. According to Young, the United States ranks 139th of 172 nations in the percentage of eligible citizens voting. …

Only one voter in six said he or she had had difficulty finding time to vote because of other commitments. But three out of 10 said

they would be more likely to vote if Election Day were moved to the weekend.

That last measure was much higher for some groups who

generally lag in voter turnout. Among African-Americans, 52 percent said they would be more likely to vote on the weekend; among

Hispanics, 48 percent; and an identical 48 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds. Singles, working women and residents of Texas and California

were also notably high in saying that weekend voting would bring them to the polls.

All of which suggests that Young is right in

seeing this as an extension of the civil rights and voting rights efforts.