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In South Africa voting is always on a Wednesday, and I've always been told the logic is: Avoid Monday and Friday so that workers won't take a 3 day weekend. S
by overlordalex 5y ago
In South Africa voting is always on a Wednesday, and I've always been told the logic is:
Avoid Monday and Friday so that workers won't take a 3 day weekend.
Similarly, avoid Tuesday and Thursday so that workers don't take a vacation day for a 4 day weekend - even though fewer workers would do this, it would still be a massive hit on productivity, and workers would more likely to travel and thus be outside their electoral areas
Hence, midweek
- katbyte 5y agowhat is so bad about workers taking a 4 day weekend?
- tannedNerd 5y agoThey probably aren't in their hometown to vote if they take a 4 day weekend.
- xmprt 5y agoI don't think it's bad but if the purpose is to get people to vote but a lot of people are out vacationing in Yosemite then it defeats the purpose.
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- loeg 5y agoTaking a 4-day vacation somewhere that doesn't have polling booths.