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6 Many of you are affliated with the reform efforts put together by the Alliance for Better Campaigns. What changes would you like to see made?  
BOB SQUIER replies:

One of the things that I think would be valuable for voters is to understand more about why people do certain things in political advertising and in politics in general. And this project seemed a perfect way to try and help voters penetrate the control room and penetrate the campaign manager's office to get a better understanding about how politics really works.

Now at the same time, we're going to actually try to intrigue people with the idea of actually coming into the process and making a better use of the process. There is a lot of cant spoken about why people don't vote. I think a lot of the reason is that people don't know how to vote. They're not, they're not registered, they don't feel like they have the tools. Sure they may feel turned off but they may just feel, you know, "Things are just fine, why do I have to fool around with it?"

We're going to try to do some research that really looks into that question. It's the dark side of the moon. We all talk about the voters. Nobody talks about the non-voters. What we're going to try to do is to see if we can find a ways to intrigue non- voters with the process and to get them engaged.
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