It's far from their first response. Check out all of the Why Tuesday videos at Youtube.

I share Sen Biden's skepticism that changing the voting day to the weekend or to a national holiday will succeed in increasing our abysmal turnout. I hope that it will help but I would like to see evidence supporting this.

Despite this I have signed the Why Tuesday pledge. Jacob's creativity, energy, and positive attitude doesn't hurt.

Here is a summary of findings from a cross country study on voter turnout:

Pippa Norris did a study of 18 factors in 70 elections in 25 older democracies in the 1990s to see which impacted voter turnout.
["Democratic Pheonix: political activism worldwide," Cambridge Univ. Press 2002.]

According to her the most important factors were:

voting on a rest day: +7
Compulsory voting: +13
Presidential: +4
Multiparty system: +4
More ages of eligibility: +5
PR: +6
where bigger numbers mean bigger effect.

Unimportant factors included postal & advance voting, human development in that country, women enfranchised. Making more days to vote and allowing proxy voting both actually DEcreased turnout.

She predicts e-voting would have little effect on turnout.

She says her final model explains 3/4 of the variance in turnout data.

AAV said:

It's far from their first response.

Twas their first response to their video candidate challenge to the Presidential Candidates. As you correctly point out, they've got other videos with other officials, and such. All worth checking out.

Thanks for saying BALLOTS Joe.

"Do you support a paper ballot --- not a "paper trail" or a "paper record," but a paper ballot, and one that is actually counted --- for every vote cast in America?"

The only way "every vote" can ever be counted is to abolish the electoral college.
which BTW would also raise up the percentage of voters better than anything else could.
Most people don't bother voting because they know if they are a democrat in a red state and visa versa then their vote doesn't count anyway and never will.

Abolish the EC
Destroy all electronic voting machines and cast only paper ballots counted by hand.
FORCE the MSM to give equal time to ALL candidates.
Make it law that all campaign funds are 100% federally funded by tax payers where each candidate gets exactly the same amount and can not go one penny over.
Force all broadcasters to give exactly the same amount of free airtime to every candidate with the stipulation that each candidate can only talk about THEMSELVES & what their plan is. No more bullshit lying attack ads.
Hold elections over 3 days Fri-Sat-Sun and have mandatory exit polls taken but can not mention them until polls close on Sunday

Then you will have the best chance for honest elections with much larger turnouts.

Why isn't election day a paid holiday? The most important day of the year? Then we could watch the polls more closely. I blame both parties for election day not being a national holiday.