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.

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.

You know what?

Take the day, fam. Go vote, get some ice cream, and have a mental health day. You've earned it.

Service workers work on both of those days, so the working class lose either way.

Because the oligarchy supports the leadership they helped to create .... not in the process of how that leadership was created.

You kind of do but not a bank holiday. I believe us federal law mandates that your employer give you time to vote, but not the whole day off.

I agree it is dumb and backwards.

You can't tell me you don't understand why this is

Because corporations own you and this means they can pressure how you vote in key states.

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.

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.

And why is presidents day called Washington's birthday?

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)

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.

Because more votes in elections would mean more taxing the rich and more workers rights.

We don't get either of them off. Or weekends.

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.