Voting day should be a national federal holiday, that would eliminate most concerns about the poor, lack of 'child minders', day of work, etc. The arguments so

Voting day should be a national federal holiday, that would eliminate most concerns about the poor, lack of 'child minders', day of work, etc. The arguments some people are making in this thread that it -shouldn't- take a day, should only take a 'click', are misguided imo. There is value in slowing down collectively, participating in the process, and seeing the results of that collective action. Reducing it to a task to be completed as efficiently as possible is horribly misguided -- but eliminating the barriers to participate collectively is conversely an admirable goal, which could easily be mostly solved via federal holiday.