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Voting on Saturday would work just fine in the US. There's little difference between the two weekend days in the US when it comes to some people working or not

Voting on Saturday would work just fine in the US. There's little difference between the two weekend days in the US when it comes to some people working or not on those days (if you work Saturdays, you often also work Sundays; you're typically on a weekend shift in that case). Culturally it's an exceptionally obvious and easy compromise.

BitwiseFool 5y ago
Unfortunately, Sunday voting could be seen as disenfranchising religious communities that treat Sundays as a Sabbath / day of rest.
- christkv 5y ago
  You still have early voting if that is a complaint.
  - BitwiseFool 5y ago
    Personally, I agree, but I can easily see how not being able to vote in person on election day due to religious obligations would run afoul of the Supreme Court.
- klyrs 5y ago
  If the only day to vote was on Sunday, sure. But nobody is being oppressed by having the polls open on an additional day. And what about communities that observe Sabbath on Saturdays?
KennyBlanken 5y ago
A significant number of people, especially those lower on the socioeconomic ladder, are working on weekends. "Vote on saturday" would skew elections toward those who work M-F jobs. We need mail-in voting. It would solve so many problems. But the reason one party has fought against it so hard is because stripping certain communities of their precincts and poll workers and such to create massive waits for voting is a key part of their disenfranchisement strategy...and keeping voting as an in-person activity because it does such a wonderful job of keeping The Poors out of polls, thus starving progressive candidates of votes.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > We need mail-in voting. It would solve so many problems. But the reason one party has fought against it so hard ...for other people (their own voters, because of age demographics of the parties, being disproportionately more likely to qualify for mail-in [absentee] ballots under the restrictive rules they prefer to general mail-in availability)...

BitwiseFool 5y ago

Unfortunately, Sunday voting could be seen as disenfranchising religious communities that treat Sundays as a Sabbath / day of rest.

christkv 5y ago
You still have early voting if that is a complaint.
- BitwiseFool 5y ago
  Personally, I agree, but I can easily see how not being able to vote in person on election day due to religious obligations would run afoul of the Supreme Court.
klyrs 5y ago
If the only day to vote was on Sunday, sure. But nobody is being oppressed by having the polls open on an additional day. And what about communities that observe Sabbath on Saturdays?

KennyBlanken 5y ago

A significant number of people, especially those lower on the socioeconomic ladder, are working on weekends. "Vote on saturday" would skew elections toward those who work M-F jobs. We need mail-in voting. It would solve so many problems. But the reason one party has fought against it so hard is because stripping certain communities of their precincts and poll workers and such to create massive waits for voting is a key part of their disenfranchisement strategy...and keeping voting as an in-person activity because it does such a wonderful job of keeping The Poors out of polls, thus starving progressive candidates of votes.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> We need mail-in voting. It would solve so many problems. But the reason one party has fought against it so hard ...for other people (their own voters, because of age demographics of the parties, being disproportionately more likely to qualify for mail-in [absentee] ballots under the restrictive rules they prefer to general mail-in availability)...