Get Out The Vote
November, 2008
HOW WE CAN MAKE MORE AMERICANS CAST BALLOTSTo paraphrase Mark Twain, everybody talks about voter turnout, but nobody does anything about it. In fact, a high voting rate may not be in the interest of our current administration. We asked various aca-demies and thinkers what can be done to improve our participatory democracy.Alexander Keys-sar, Harvard: Hold elections on Sundays or holidays, as is done in much of the rest of the world. Beyond making it easier for people to get to the polls, weeke...
