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Voting has to be a federal holiday before we can make it compulsory, I feel. Or we just mail everyone ballots like Oregon does.

• danieltillett 10y ago
  Or you do like we do in Australia and hold the elections on a weekend :)
  • RijilV 10y ago
    You've never been to a bar/coffee house/grocery store/etc on a weekend? Lots of people work the weekend, often it is those who are paid less and have more rigid schedules. Also you run into religious days where some are not able to perform work. Honestly it is a hard one to mandate as a single few hour window on a single day. Someone has to be working at hospitals for example. Maybe it should be election week
    • NathanOsullivan 10y ago
      In Australia you are permitted to either vote early in person, or submit your vote by post if you are unable to vote on polling day due to work.
    • vacri 10y ago
      It already is 'election week' in Australia. You can vote early, and you can postal-vote. The weekend vote is much easier to get the masses out voting, because most people don't have work (or school) to deal with on the weekend. At the last federal election I voted on the Wednesday beforehand, simply because I was passing by an early voting station. And the queues at Australian voting stations on The Day aren't anywhere near as long as in the US. I've heard some horror stories where some people have had to wait 4+ hours (on a Tuesday) to vote in the US.
      • nommm-nommm 10y ago
        I've never seen a queue at a polling station more than a couple of people long in the US. I don't live in the South though.