Though a nice sentiment, such a holiday would be unnecessary and too complicated to implement. As other commenters point out, mail balloting is much easier and

Though a nice sentiment, such a holiday would be unnecessary and too complicated to implement. As other commenters point out, mail balloting is much easier and already implemented in many precincts. The US is a very large country, and there are elections all the time. Would people need a day off for school board elections? What about the recent Alabama special senate election? Restricting it to only presidential elections, or once yearly elections, would be impractical for the day to day democracy of our nation. Perhaps compulsory voting would be a better idea? Though groups like the Amish and Jehovah's Witnesses would be dead set against such an idea, compulsory voting has good track records in places like Australia where there was much hand wringing over a low 91% turnout. However, many Australians point to the compulsory vote as a reason why their parliaments are bad, as it forces people with little to no interest to make a choice in an election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Australia