APA Closing Early Tuesday To Allow Staff Time Off To Vote

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APA plans to close its offices in Los Angeles, Nashville, Atlanta and New York at 3 p.m. Tuesday, November 6, as an initiative to allow employees and executives the time to vote in their respective districts.

“We are making this commitment to our employees and hope to see this become a collective industry decision, making it as easy as possible for people to vote,” commented Lee Dinstman, managing partner and head of television literary at APA.  “With agency hours starting early and going late, we think the rights and responsibilities we have as a citizenry to vote is more important than anything, especially in today’s political climate with an election as important as this one.  Our number one job on Tuesday should be to vote.”  

During the last mid-term election in 2014, voter participation was at its lowest since the 1940s, with only 36 percent of the voting-age population making it to the polls, the agency said in its statement, adding that “several studies have shown one of the main reason voters missed their opportunity to vote included inflexible job or school schedules.   

APA President/CEO Jim Gosnell, added, “Given how ‘Hollywood’ finds itself in the center of a lot of political conversations, it is only appropriate that we encourage everyone in our industry to practice what we preach and to exercise one of the most fundamental rights we have in this country.”