{"id":112,"date":"2005-11-12T11:16:01","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T17:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=112"},"modified":"2005-11-12T13:16:50","modified_gmt":"2005-11-12T19:16:50","slug":"why-vote-on-tuesdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/why-vote-on-tuesdays\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Vote on Tuesdays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-\n\ndyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/09\/AR2005110901650.html\">Why Vote on Tuesdays?<\/a> By DAVID S. BRODER, Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>If Andrew Young <\/p>\n<p>has his way, never again will we have a Tuesday election. The former mayor of Atlanta and ambassador to the United Nations wants to <\/p>\n<p>switch the nation&#8217;s voting to the weekend. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All of these problems, Young says, contribute to the low turnouts in American <\/p>\n<p>elections. According to Young, the United States ranks 139th of 172 nations in the percentage of eligible citizens voting. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>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 <\/p>\n<p>they would be more likely to vote if Election Day were moved to the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>That last measure was much higher for some groups who <\/p>\n<p>generally lag in voter turnout. Among African-Americans, 52 percent said they would be more likely to vote on the weekend; among <\/p>\n<p>Hispanics, 48 percent; and an identical 48 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds. Singles, working women and residents of Texas and California <\/p>\n<p>were also notably high in saying that weekend voting would bring them to the polls.<\/p>\n<p>All of which suggests that Young is right in <\/p>\n<p>seeing this as an extension of the civil rights and voting rights efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s voting to the weekend. &#8230; All of these problems, Young says, contribute to the low &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/why-vote-on-tuesdays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Vote on Tuesdays?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}