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Meanwhile all the schools in my area are polling places so kids don’t have school.
And why is presidents day called Washington’s birthday?
In most civilized countries, voting takes place on weekends and your employer is legally obligated to let you leave work to go vote
We have it in Malaysia if the polling date is in weekdays, and we usually have general election on Saturday so most people have no reason not to vote. And even then, we have law that said employer cannot stop employees from going to vote and this is heavily enforced. Though our election is only one day, and once the polling station close, anything or anyone that arrive afterward is not counted
You can’t tell me you don’t understand why this is
Dudes working at most hourly lower end type jobs still wouldn’t get election day off, unless you mandated like octuple pay for anyone working that day (They should)
Bcs the few are important & worshipped, the many are expendable and barely deserving of human-level acknowledgment.
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(or at least I wish it was sarcasm)Because Republicans don’t want you to vote if you have the kind of job that you can’t just take whatever time you want off.
You are getting President’s Day off?
We should just have elections on presidents day.
And that way presidents day finally has an actual purpose.
I’d feel weird voting for other stuff on a day called presidents Day now. Maybe we should add more days. Like governors day and mayors day. Oh and county comptroller day!!! We should have cookouts on that day also, obviously.
In France elections are held on a Sunday so most people don’t work, the others are allowed time off to vote of course
Well in the US, no one was originally intended to vote but the male landed gentry, who clearly could afford to travel for several days to their polling place, get plastered on local liquor, and just shout who they were voting for at whomever was supposed to jot that down. Them that person would go off and vote for whoever they wanted, in case the peasants had gotten any silly ideas and voted for the wrong guy.
I think what you just described is the electoral college
Cause Americans want to BBQ not do their civic duty. If you made election day a holiday, voting numbers would Plummet while Americans get drunk and grill burgers
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
Service workers work on both of those days, so the working class lose either way.
I used to agree that election day should be a bank holiday, but many many still have to work on bank holidays. Now I’m in a populous red state and in-person early voting has been available for years.
I voted early in 22 and in 20. Not sure how old the law is. I think I can vote early all the way up to Saturday, maybe Sunday. too lazy to check.
I think this is a better solution, mail voting notwithstanding. Voting doesn’t have to go on for a whole month, but a week or two early makes sense.
Anyways I’ll be voting sometime between now and Tuesday.
I agree, giving people the day off to encourage voting makes more sense than honoring unnamed presidents (Washington and Lincoln if you’re too young to remember). Repubs overall won’t go for this because they know more voting is bad for them. Wacky, huh?
