The particular reason why it won't close the gap is because older citizens are more likely to take advantage of increased convenience opportunities. We'd expect that citizens in every age group would take advantage of these convenience opportunities of having an extra day of voting and having an extra day of advance voting at the back end, but we would expect that as citizens get older, they'd be more likely to take advantage of those extra opportunities to vote. So within every group it should have a positive impact on participation, but the most positive impact should be among citizens as they get older.
On November 22nd, 2007. See this statement in context.