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I'm not opposed to making voting mandatory, but making election day a national holiday should come first. While I'm aware many (most? all?) polling locations a

I'm not opposed to making voting mandatory, but making election day a national holiday should come first. While I'm aware many (most? all?) polling locations allow for early voting, the reality is that many people wait for election day, and the combined hassle of having to work that day and deal with sometimes multi-hour waits (due to Republicans repeatedly closing and limiting polling locations) inevitably leads to some not voting. Of course that also ignores many of the other issues with our electoral system that convince many they shouldn't bother voting (e.g., the electoral collect and heavy gerrymandering disenfranchising large swaths of people), but those are a larger and more complicated set of issues to address.

litoE 4mo ago
> I'm not opposed to making voting mandatory, but making election day a national holiday should come first. How about having elections on Sundays instead of on Tuesdays?
amalcon 4mo ago
Making election day a (normal) national holiday would not help. The type of service sector or emergency service job that makes it a problem to vote needs to work more on a national holiday, not less. Making it a kind of super holiday where we mandate closure of everything from gas stations to non-emergency hospital services might help, but you're never getting the votes to make that change.