To your point, too, I did appreciate the current wording has shifted. One might argue that it's shifted in tone, purpose, and even toward a greater vagueness. Certainly our argument would be to open the doors to greater education to, as you noted, the so-called absent citizens, and find new levers to help them engage at that very grassroots level so they can move from grassroots to much greater and fuller political and democratic participation.
On March 31st, 2014. See this statement in context.