2012 Citizen Action Award
David Orr is honored at the 7th annual Senator Paul Simon/ Paul Wellstone Awards.
David Orr w/ Dick Kay on “Back on the Beat”
Talking voter fraud and voter supression in Chicago and across the country
Weekend Voting Will Work
A new proposal in Congress to shift Tuesday voting to Saturday and Sunday by 2014 is a good idea whose time has come. The Weekend Voting Act, sponsored by Congressmen Steve Israel (D-NY) and John Larson (D-CT), deserves bipartisan support. Weekend voting will finally give busy Americans a chance to vote without squeezing another errand into their hectic work days.
It may surprise most Americans to learn that we don’t vote as much as our counterparts around the world. Europeans, Canadians and South Americansall vote more than we do. Our election schedule contributes to this discrepancy – nearly every other democracy votes on a weekend or on a holiday.
