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Because easy and accessible voting is extremely bad for one party.
Because corporations own you and this means they can pressure how you vote in key states.
Early voting is a better solution to the problem than making it a day off, though.
“We”? Who are “we”? Star fleet?
People have to remember that this is the Internet, this thing is global.
We don’t get the day off to vote in MN but you are legally allowed to take time off to go vote (with pay). So when I was in the office, I always voted in the middle of the day right after my lunch hour.
Our boss just took us out to lunch and gave us four hours off the rest of the day to go out and vote, which is probably the most encouragement to vote I think I’ve ever gotten from any boss before. I’m sure I was entitled to it this whole time, but it’s never been encouraged like this before with this boss at any of my other workplaces, if anything, previous bosses probably would’ve talked shit if I said that’s what I wanted to do with my time.
I had a job for a few years with no MLK and no President’s day. That stretch from New Years to Memorial Day was very, very long.
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.
I’ve been mailing in my ballot for years. Sitting at home and researching each candidate and proposition at my convenience is a game changer. (This year, my ballot had 15 propositions to unravel!) I don’t need to worry about getting to the polls - or dealing with the armed, lingering asshats.
EVERYONE should be mailing in ballots.
EVERYONE should be mailing in ballots.
Not everyone gets that option from their state.
I think they’re just saying that everyone should have the option and use it.
Maybe.
Regardless, it should be clear that not everyone has this option today. There is no reason we should be saying things like “You have no excuse” like we are elsewhere.
There are more options than their used to be, but not everywhere, not for everyone, and its still not as easily accessed as it should be.
Which sucks.
Only eight states have automatic mail-in voting: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington state, plus Washington DC.
Some states have No Excuse Required mail-in options, while others have Excuse Required mail-in options. I’ve lived in all three types of states. The automatic (blue) state was best, and No Excuse (purple) state made the mail-in request easy, but I had to jump through hoops and lie my ass off to mail my ballot in the Excuse Required (red) state.
Every state should have automatic or No Excuse mail-in ballots.
They absolutely should all be automatic.
We should also, IMO, have it as a holiday. As well as early voting options everywhere. Really everything to encourage participation.
Unfortunately not the case today…
You don’t need to mail in to research candidates.
At least in my state, you can just see who is on the ballot weeks and weeks ahead of time.
Depends on your state and county/parish. Voter suppression and lack of funding means that many “red” states have fewer voting locations and even fewer early voting locations. My family who live in a Republican county in a Republican state have only two vote early locations that are picked to be least efficient (both close to each other on an extreme end and less populated portion of a huge county). They would have to drive 45 minutes to get there in good traffic. It makes it difficult for folks who may be poor and working class to get out.
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.
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.
It gives employers the ability to suppress votes.
Dems win if voter turn out is too high, so Republican block attempts to make it a day off. So why didn’t Biden push ot through when Dems last had the house and the senate?
Because they’ve never had the senate. You need 60 votes to get past the fillabuster and to fix THAT you’d need Sinama and Manchin to agree to that.
Because Democrats respect the filibuster.
why didn’t Biden push [it] through when Dems last had the house and the senate?
I think that’s only been 4 months out of the last 50 years, and I bet there was some pretty fundamental stuff to unfuck first. And then they ran out of time.
Because Dems need something to cry about every cycle. They could do so many things if they actually wanted to.
I’ll give you 3 guesses
- pancakes
- adamantium
- squirrels
(I’m bad at guessing)
You got 2 out of 3 correct.
Yay, C+!
I just need one.
- Money
You know what?
Take the day, fam. Go vote, get some ice cream, and have a mental health day. You’ve earned it.
Voting makes me sick. That’s why I call in sick. The fact my employer needs to give us 3 hours off to vote makes it that much more plausible; as no one would skyve off a half-day.
Be well. Don’t be sick. Or do, if voting makes you sick too. I feel a cough coming on even talking about it. Maybe a migraine too. Definitely feel dizzy. Some kinda verklempt. Tawk amengst yeselves.
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?
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!”
