This profile of Why Tuesday? was edited and produced by John Carluccio for Current TV. It aired in 2008 on-air and on Virgin America flights.

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Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? submits a question to Ask The President, an online forum brought to you by the Washington Times, the Nation and Personal Democracy Forum.

At the SXSW festival in Austin Texas, Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? talks with Lawrence Lessig of Change Congress about people's faith in the American government.

Even in Florida, where turnout was higher than the national average, nearly 5 million eligible voters didn't vote in the presidential election. But what if we took our elections as seriously as we take the Super Bowl? Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? headed to Tampa to find out, and caught up with Florida Governor Charlie Crist.

Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? visits Shiloh Christian School in Bismarck, North Dakota on Election Day 2008. North Dakota is the only state in the United States without voter registration. Few problems and high turnout was reported on Election Day.

Kirsten and Jacob voted early in Norwalk, CA and videotaped it for Video Your Vote. Why Tuesday? is proud to partner with YouTube and PBS on Video Your Vote. Find your polling place: http://whytuesday.org

In our new PSA, a famous actress gives her perspective about voting. Find your polling place at http://whytuesday.org. Directed by Derek Waters, creator of Drunk History.

Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? asks YOU to sign a petition asking Senators Obama and McCain to talk about the state of America's voting system during the 10/7 Presidential Debate in Nashville. Sign the petition at WHYTUESDAY.org

Jacob Soboroff introduces the The Ultimate College Bowl, the ultimate voter registration drive that unites the nation's largest voter registration organizations. Our goal is for every US college student to register and vote in the 2008 election. To enter the contest, grab the widget to register everyone of your friends to vote. Win a free Death Cab For Cutie concert for your campus, or win scholarship money, Guitar Hero 2, and more.

While Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? was at the Democratic National Convention, Tom Brokaw of NBC News spoke about Why Tuesday? and our efforts to make the state of America's voting system and issue our elected officials cannot afford to avoid.

Yesterday in Springfield, IL Sen. Barack Obama selected Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate for the presidency. Jacob Soboroff interviewed both for the Why Tuesday? Candidate Challenge last October. The ask was for candidates to discuss their plans for increasing voter participation, since the USA ranks near the bottom of all countries. Obama told Jacob he supported the idea of weekend voting to increase voter participation, but Biden said he wouldn't necessarily support weekend voting. Obama: "I think we have to make it easier to vote. And I'm assuming that Why Tuesday? is in favor of, for example, of having it on weekends, so that more people can vote." Biden: "My view is I don't see any strong evidence that having Election Day on a weekend is going to increase turnout relative to Tuesday... if I saw any data to suggest that it would create a larger turnout, then I would support that, whatever it took." While Senator Biden is right and there is no silver bullet for increasing voter participation, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance published, on page 116 of "Voter Turnout Since 1945: A Global Report" (2002), that "a study in 2000 suggested that weekend voting increases turnout rates far above statistical relevance." We're working to track down that study, and will continue to monitor the candidates' positions on the state of the voting system and election reform in the general election, so stay tuned.

Last week Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? submitted a video question to Senator Norm Coleman and Al Franken, who are up against each other for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesoata. We wanted to know what they would do to increase American voter participation. Well, they responded! If you're curious, Franken says hi to Jacob's mom in the video because in our original video question, he mentions his mom is a native Minnesotan.

This month we've spent time with a member of Congress trying to move voting to the Weekend, and we've chatted with the Speaker of the House, who indicated she would support such legislation. Last weekend at Netroots Nation in Austin, Texas, Libertarian presidential candidate and former U.S. Representative Bob Barr told Jacob Soboroff he doesn't know why it is we vote on Tuesday, but that he'd support voting on weekends to make voting more convenient. Barr: "I'll tell you - we need to do something - and we need to do a lot of different things - and that may be one of the things we need to do. As President, I would sign such legislation."

AUSTIN, TX - At the Netroots Nation conference, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, former Vice President Al Gore, and U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett spoke with Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? about the proposal currently in Congress to move Election Day to Saturday and Sunday. Pelosi: "I think it's a great idea." Gore: "Good idea, sounds like."

U.S. Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) sits down with Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? in Washington, D.C., and becomes the first member of Congress to report as a Why Tuesday? correspondent! Rep. Israel recently introduced the Weekend Voting Act into the House in an attempt to move election day from "the Tuesday after the first Monday in November," as it has been since 1845, to Saturday and Sunday. Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) introduced the same bill into the Senate earlier this year.

Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? spoke to his fellow Webby nominees and notables on the red carpet in New York City about what is hot in politics online. For more: http://whytuesday.org

Jacob Soboroff went to The Grove in Los Angeles where HBO set up the actual Votomatic Florida voting machines used in the controversial 2000 Presidential Election, complete with butterfly ballots and hanging chads, so that people can judge for themselves whether they could have effectively cast their ballot. RECOUNT premieres May 25 on HBO.

Oregon is the only state in the Union that votes entirely by mail, and as NPR's Ina Jaffe reported last week, that's not only changing the way campaigns conduct their get-out-the-vote efforts, it also removes the tradition of the secret ballot entirely from Oregon's voting system. This week for Why Tuesday? Jacob Soboroff met with United States Postal Service Communications Program Specialist Larry H. Dozier to learn more about voting-by-mail.

Jacob Soboroff thanks our subscribers for letting us know that Tom Brokaw shouted us out during MSNBC's North Carolina and Indiana election-night coverage, and plays the snippet for those who missed it. For more: http://whytuesday.org