You can't tell me you don't understand why this is
Even if you made it a federal holiday, the wage slaves would still have to work.
how are federal holidays not mandatory time off dude there's a reason they exist. what a backwards country.
edit: apparently the concept is so foreign that people don't understand how these things work. of course there will be exceptions but of you work on a holiday you get a full day's salary as overtime. this usually assures employers only force work when necessary because most would rather not pay extra. and of course further exceptions can be made into the law. no one said life should stop when there's a holiday.
Because only people who are able to afford a day off are supposed to vote. That's also why republicans agitate against postal voting and why early vote ballot drop-offs are burning.
early vote ballot drop-offs are burning
omfjc... Thanks for the heads up. Link for anyone else who blinked and missed this on Monday.
Authorities, including the FBI, were investigating Monday after early morning fires were set in U.S. ballot drop boxes in Portland, Ore., and in nearby Vancouver, Wash., where hundreds of ballots were destroyed.
Why is it election day anyway, why not election month. California and Oregon have vote by mail; every state should
Washington State too. You're right, the election isn't just a day anymore - I voted more than a week ago.
Service workers work on both of those days, so the working class lose either way.
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
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)
The poor and desperate will vote less under the current conditions. It is all baked into the US cake. Wait until you realize that the US never passed the Equal Rights Amendment. Still waiting on those bastard laggard states to ratify it for nearly 50 years.
Because President's Day is for buying stuff. Clearly what we need is to allow stores to set up in polling places to get it to be a holiday. /s
It gives employers the ability to suppress votes.
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'll give you 3 guesses
(I'm bad at guessing)
You got 2 out of 3 correct.
Yay, C+!
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.
The ruling class wants you to celebrate them more than it wants you to have any influence in their decisions. It's frighteningly close to HR pizza party logic.
Because the oligarchy supports the leadership they helped to create .... not in the process of how that leadership was created.
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