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I'm in Texas and we've had damn near 2 weeks of early voting. I'm going in on Friday. If you don't vote, you don't have a ton of good excuses, especially with mail in voting.
Not that I ultimately disagree, I think election day should be a national holiday, including midterms.
Also in Texas and I was surprised at the line for early voting when I went. Usually I just walk in and walk out because there's no one there before election day.
Some states (I want to say Mississippi?) have no early voting and only absentee ballots with a good excuse. So yeah, a federal holiday or some provision for time off to vote would be awesome.
No need to make it a day off, just need to guarantee enough hours to vote (in Canada employers need to adjust your schedule so you have 4h off work while voting stations are open, in most cases they don't need to do anything because they're open late enough that after work is 4h)
Isn’t voting open for much longer than 1 day? Polls are already open…and so is early voting and mail-in ballots, etc. Election Day is just like the last day when (allegedly) the winner is decided. Not really a point for a full-on, everything closed type holiday, or even a “bank holiday” like President’s Day.
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
Bcs the few are important & worshipped, the many are expendable and barely deserving of human-level acknowledgment.
/s
(or at least I wish it was sarcasm)
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.
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.
'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
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)"
I mean in my state I now have like 8 election days off.
I do, try living in a blue state.
I live in a red state and have the day off, champ.
Nice, here is an actual relevant map:
https://www.lgbtmap.org/democracy-maps/election_day_holiday_paid_time_off_to_vote
It's really about split whether or not states will let you leave work to vote