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Why is it election day anyway, why not election month. California and Oregon have vote by mail; every state should
The west coast, Vermont, and DC have all been mail voting for a long time. Hell, even Utah is via mail.
Washington State too. You’re right, the election isn’t just a day anymore - I voted more than a week ago.
Early voting near me started last week, I made time this monday, wasn’t even a line when I got there. Early voting all this week from 7am-7pm. Why chance a long line on election day.
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.
We shouldn’t specifically have Election Day off work. Everyone should get one paid day off in the period of early voting or election day. It’ll prevent the hours-long wait times at the polls on election day and allow businesses to stay in operation by spreading out the time when workers are off to vote.
I’d prefer it even more if the money for the vacation time were paid by the government, but only of the person actually votes. Otherwise, you’ll just find a bunch of cruise specials around election season meant to capitalize on the extra vacation time, and voter turnout won’t be significantly impacted.
this scheme has no incentive to actually vote. It would likely help many people in voting, but a lot would just go fishing or stay home to play games. I’m not saying make it a crime to not vote.
tax incentives to vote sounds like a giveaway to tax-prep companies and tax-software companies, none of whom should exist at all.
and all of this when the whole voting structure is fucked – first-past-the-post is when one candidate gets more than another, even if they get a small minority of votes.
Did you not read the part where I said the incentive requires them to vote?
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.
“People voting for their leaders? That’s socialism!”
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?
For all the shitty things about missouri, they have voting done up pretty well. 2 hours paid time off required to go vote on election day and anyone can show up like a month ahead of election day to their county clerks office or wherever the counties location is set up to early vote, plus a mail in voter system for people who can’t physically go vote. I already vote a couple weeks ago and it took like 15 minutes.
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.
Yeah but then how would we celebrate Director of Parks and Recreation day?
It has a purpose…that’s when we have big sales at the car dealerships. Just as George Washington always wanted.
How would people have time to get more car-poor if they had to stop shopping to do something silly like vote for the leader of the free world?
'cause apparently you guys elect a king every 4 years, with the power to completely change the course of your country, so it’s only right you honour him accordingly
Because easy and accessible voting is extremely bad for one party.
Or simply vote on the Sundays…
This Sunday is the last day for early voting in Ohio. There’s no voting this Monday but lots more polling places open open on election day Tuesday. I voted yesterday though.
Fun fact! The official name for that holiday is Washington’s Birthday.
I don’t know the story behind its label of President’s Day but on the federal reserve’s website it shows:
“Washington’s Birthday (President’s Day)”why the fuck is election day not on a Sunday like any normal fucking country?
Bus doesn’t even run on Sundays where I live in large areas (one of the top 10 largest cities in the US)
Because more votes in elections would mean more taxing the rich and more workers rights.
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
