We the People Day.

should not get the time off if you don't actually use it to vote--and the sticker doesn't cut it as proof of voting. JMO.


*Ironically, I think my call was in a post where I lambasted people blaming voters for Tuesday, and the OP was about Sanders.

Everybody who votes get Holiday pay from employer.

Not that I am opposed to a day off. However, if the holiday is for voting, you can't just spend the day catching up on laundry. You have to vote. Enforcing the voting bit requires proof of voting, which is going to require modifications at the polls.

Easy check via clerk of courts office.

We do get checked in and out of the polling place by name and address, though. So, I guess that is checkable, too.

Okay, done!

I asked how the turnout had been, since it was pretty busy when I showed up (7pm), and he said they were still at less than 50%, low for this area.

I've been hearing calls for election day to be a national public holiday since at least the 1970s. I suspect it's one of those ideas which traces back to the CPUSA or the Wobblies, but I wouldn't be surprised if it goes all the way back to the formation of the republic.

I still have to advocate for calling it "We the People Day". The name will encourage turnout as well.

It just seems like something the Wobblies might have advocated. Not that it's terribly important.

BTW: I like your name for the holiday.

1) Each workplace comes up with their own holiday schedules. There is no mandate to follow the federal holiday schedule unless your workplace is government-operated. When's the last time you got a President's Day or martin Luther King day off from work?

2) Being a federal holiday... a lot of bus lines would shut down for the day. Unfortunately a lot of voters require bus access to get to their polling places.

Then I went to work for myself and (usually) got my birthday off, too. But as long as everyone gets time off on a day when the polls are open, why is it important that it be the same day off for every workplace?

I am sure they can work around the public transportation stuff if we give them a reminder. They may be out of touch enough that they won't think of that on their own. Being a lifelong city type, my polling place is a very easy walk. So, I could be out of touch on that one myself, but not because my limo is always there whenever I need it!

When I took a position with a government office after nearly 25 years in the private sector, I was surprised to find both the federal holidays you mention on the holiday schedule.

That will no doubt change as charter schools and a deep-red state administration in Ohio continue to chip away at public schools.

I'm no civics expert, and Sanders's idea would be a good start I think, but it would seem to me this would require a constitutional amendment to have any real teeth.

ETA:

Not that anyone should hold their breath waiting for that to happen, obviously.

So that most working people are not hindered from voting just because they have day jobs.

There should be high pay off national and state lotteries that you get free tickets for at the polling place. Like most lotteries, they could use half the money for the budget, so by voting you'd be getting a few minutes of fantasy and you'd help the budget without raising taxes.

The parties are not going to give up their contributions to anyone but the media.

Alaska used to give out coupons for a free pizza to every voter at the polls.

Republicans would not oppose it, but would offer a plan to cut hours even more to restrict voting. It is absolutely asinine that we continue to vote on Tuesday. My understanding is that it allowed people in rural areas to get to the polls over the weekend. As a nation that was founded on the principle representation we have lost our way.

veterans lives.

and it's already a holiday.