I'm the correspondent for AMC News on the AMC network, as well as executive director of Why Tuesday?, a non-partisan group working to increase voter participation, and I'm a contributor to Weekend Soapbox from NPR Weekend Edition. I was also a contributor to the PBS series Wired Science. I got my MA in political theory and philosophy from NYU. You can also find me on Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and of course, via e-mail.

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Blog Entries by Jacob Soboroff

Obama, McCain Lawyers Unite for Election Reform

Posted May 6, 2009 | 05:54 PM (EST)


Letter Grade

Here in Los Angeles, you know if the restaurant you're about to eat in is clean, kind of clean, or just plain nasty by the letter grades that are clearly posted in every restaurant's front window by the Los Angeles County Department of Public...

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Voting in India? Google It!

Posted April 9, 2009 | 02:50 PM (EST)


For the 2008 United States presidential election, we at Why Tuesday? teamed with YouTube and PBS to launch Video Your Vote, a program that intended to create the largest library of polling place Election Day video ever in order to help make voting as accessible, reliable and secure...

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American Voting System Still Broken

Posted March 18, 2009 | 05:35 PM (EST)


If it ain't broke, don't fix it, goes the expression. Well, according to the New York Times, the American voting system is broken. So let's fix it. For us here at Why Tuesday? it was an extreme pleasure to see an extra-long editorial making the case for election...

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WATCH>> Hollywood Actress Stars in "Famous PSA" on Why You Should Vote

Posted October 16, 2008 | 11:52 AM (EST)


A famous actress gives her perspective about voting in this new get-out-the-vote PSA from whytuesday.org. Because democracy is about getting your views on governance recognized.

Don't know why we vote on Tuesday? Click here for...

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Study: Driving On Election Day Could Be Hazardous To Your Health

Posted October 4, 2008 | 10:33 AM (EST)


A version of this post is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

Driving on Election Day

Driving on Tuesday Election Day may be hazardous to your health, so says NPR's health policy correspondent Patti Neighmond.

A new report by Dr....

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WATCH>> Obama, Biden Election Reform

Posted August 23, 2008 | 07:42 PM (EST)


A version of this post is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

Saturday in Springfield, Illinois, Sen. Barack Obama selected Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate for the presidency. I interviewed both men for the Why Tuesday? Candidate Challenge last October. I asked...

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WATCH>> Al Franken and Norm Coleman Debate Tuesday Voting on YouTube

Posted August 14, 2008 | 03:07 AM (EST)


A version of this post is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

Minnesota has some of the highest voter participation in the United States. Now both candidates for Senate there are talking about improving voter participation nationwide, thanks to a YouTube political initiative.

Last week,...

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WATCH>> Bob Barr Doesn't Know Why We Vote On Tuesday

Posted July 24, 2008 | 08:02 AM (EST)


This post is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

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...

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WATCH>> Pelosi, Gore Like Weekend Voting Idea

Posted July 20, 2008 | 12:11 AM (EST)


This post is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

Today at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, I spoke with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, former Vice President Al Gore, and U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett about the proposals in Congress to move Election Day to...

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WATCH>> Congressman Rallies Support Online To Update Voting Laws

Posted July 18, 2008 | 12:05 AM (EST)


This post is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

U.S. Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) and I sat down yesterday in Washington, D.C., and he soon thereafter became the first member of Congress to report as a Why Tuesday? correspondent! Watch the video for our chat, and...

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WATCH: Obama Girl's Daily Conference Call?! Ludacris, will.i.am, Arianna & More On Webby Red Carpet

Posted June 11, 2008 | 07:06 PM (EST)


This post is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

NEW YORK, NY -- Last night I spoke to our fellow Webby nominees and notables on the red carpet in New York City about what is hot in politics online, and it's not just Obama Girl....

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WATCH: HBO "Recount" People Set Up Original Florida Voting Machines

Posted May 20, 2008 | 07:25 PM (EST)


This post is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

This morning I went to the Grove in Los Angeles where HBO, promoting their new film RECOUNT, set up the actual Votomatic Florida voting machines used in the controversial 2000 Presidential Election, complete with butterfly ballots...

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Election Mail Fraud? Not Here, Says Postal Service

Posted May 17, 2008 | 03:30 PM (EST)


This post is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

Oregonians' presidential preference will be known on Tuesday, but many if not most Oregonians have already voted. That's because Oregon is the only state in the Union that votes entirely by mail, and as NPR's Ina...

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Chris Rock on Why We Vote on Tuesday

Posted May 4, 2008 | 11:53 PM (EST)


This post is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

Chris Rock

New York Magazine quotes Chris Rock, currently on tour, at his Wednesday night Madison Square Garden show:

"They don't want you to vote. If they did, we wouldn't...
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How Long Does It Take To Get A Voter ID?

Posted May 2, 2008 | 08:15 PM (EST)


This video is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

At Why Tuesday? we decided to explore Monday's Supreme Court ruling which determined that requiring voters to show ID to cast a ballot is constitutional. I visited with election law expert Rick Hasen and...

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Senator Proposes Sweeping Election Reforms

Posted April 21, 2008 | 05:21 PM (EST)


This video is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

Record voter participation is expected in Pennsylvania today, but despite similar records being set across the nation this election cycle, America still ranks in the bottom twenty percent of all nations in voter turnout -...

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PA Officials: No Trouble With Touchscreens

Posted April 17, 2008 | 03:38 PM (EST)


This video is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

Recently I interviewed Princeton computer scientist Edward Felten about malfunctions of touchscreen voting machines in New Jersey on Feb. 5th. PAVotes.com says these same machines will be used on Tuesday in Montgomery and...

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Obama Girl Didn't Vote? No She Didn't!

Posted April 17, 2008 | 11:32 AM (EST)


This video is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

Philadelphia, PA — Before the ABC News Democratic debate here, I talked with internet celebrity Amber Lee Ettinger (a.k.a. Obama Girl) about why she didn’t vote. Was it logistical difficulty or something else? Check out the...

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Video Chat With Diebold Expert Threatened By Voting Machine Company

Posted April 1, 2008 | 10:21 PM (EST)


This video is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

I video chatted yesterday with Princeton professor Edward Felten. After he was alerted to strange vote tallies by Sequoia voting machines on Super Tuesday, Sequoia wrote to tell Felton that if he investigated the...

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Why Primacaucus?

Posted March 2, 2008 | 07:59 PM (EST)


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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont vote this Tuesday. Texas has some of the most confusing voting rules in the entire country - you can actually vote twice in one day! Some people...

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