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I would guess that the working poor also tend to disproportionately not work the normal 9-5 business week. Moving it to the weekend doesn't help when the weeken
by jdmichal 10y ago
I would guess that the working poor also tend to disproportionately not work the normal 9-5 business week. Moving it to the weekend doesn't help when the weekend is the busiest time for retail and food. I'm not sure whether making it a holiday fixes this either -- those are exactly the types of places that are still open on holidays. We need full time displacement, but voting over multiple days allows partial results to influence future votes.
- SmellTheGlove 10y agoYou're correct. It needs to be a real, paid day off. It wouldn't kill us as a society to do that. And if that's enough to put someone out of business - 1 paid day every 2 years - so be it.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> We need full time displacement, but voting over multiple days allows partial results to influence future votes. Voting over multiple days doesn't mean that partial results are available. (Given that, even in places that don't have all-mail elections, mail/absentee ballots are a significant fraction of ballots, we have voting over multiple days now -- even in the places that don't have "early voting" at actual polling locations. We don't have results before voting closes, though, and this prevents partial results from having an impact [outside of Presidential primaries, which are series of separate-but-related elections, where we have a very big effect of results early in the process].)
- jdmichal 10y agoThere's rarely partial results available. That doesn't stop media from doing exit polling and printing headlines like, "Banana is leading by 10%! Can Pear make up the difference?". I'm sure this already has some impact which is limited simply by the single-day period. Imagine if that was on the nightly news instead.