Should national election day be moved to the weekend or made a holiday?

[Peach]

Election day isn't really election day anymore ... there is early voting everywhere and anyone can file for an absentee ballot these days. Voting has never been easier.

Unfortunately, many times the absentee ballots are not counted unless the election is close. This discourages many people who either work long hours or have a long commute to work from voting an absentee ballot that won't even be counted.

Still, some people really do not care enough TO vote. I like to take ELECTION DAY off, though am not always able to do so, it is already a holiday to me.

 

[Leweman]

Election day isn't really election day anymore ... there is early voting everywhere and anyone can file for an absentee ballot these days. Voting has never been easier.

Unfortunately, many times the absentee ballots are not counted unless the election is close. This discourages many people who either work long hours or have a long commute to work from voting an absentee ballot that won't even be counted.

Whose fault is that? Polls might discourage people too, or news, or the weather. You either take the time to vote or you don't. It's that simple.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

GOP would never allow this because low voter turnout usually means more GOP victories.

How does the election being on Tuesday lower turnout?

How can it not? People's first priority is putting food on the table and earning a living. You think somebody who lives in a right to work state, gets a window of opportunity to either have to work, or vote, he'll not take the option that keeps his job? Sure people work on a Sat, but most don't. Makes total sense....

Because, in the US, we put polling places in office buildings, schools, neighborhood garages, fire stations, shopping malls, and any place else people can think of to make it convenient to vote.

So, again, how does it lower voter turnout?

 

[The T]

Should national election day be moved to the weekend?

Poll pending....

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MY response:

YES. Tuesday as national voting day is way out dated. Sorry but how many of you live on farms? How many of you that do live on farms require more than a day to get to the nearest voting booth?

Voting day should obviously be on a Saturday - or at least made a national holiday.

What a stupid SHIT you are...Farmers? Really?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Election day isn't really election day anymore ... there is early voting everywhere and anyone can file for an absentee ballot these days. Voting has never been easier.

Unfortunately, many times the absentee ballots are not counted unless the election is close. This discourages many people who either work long hours or have a long commute to work from voting an absentee ballot that won't even be counted.

Bullshit.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The last thing we (IMO) is something else to eat away from what little time off people (who work) already have. Forget voting on the weekend.

Nonsense.

In fact, voting should be extended to several days Nationwide, including weekends and workdays, such as a four-day voting period from Saturday ending Tuesday.

 

[Gem]

I'd be all for moving it to a weekend OR making voting day a national holiday...when we actually require people to prove they are who they claim to be when they show up to vote.

 

[FJO]

Should national election day be moved to the weekend?

Poll pending....

explain answer.



MY response:

YES. Tuesday as national voting day is way out dated. Sorry but how many of you live on farms? How many of you that do live on farms require more than a day to get to the nearest voting booth?

Voting day should obviously be on a Saturday - or at least made a national holiday.

Nothing wrong with Tuesday being election day.

But if it OK to have a ONE DAY election day it should be OK to have a ONE DAY primary day. All states having primaries/caucuses on the same day, let's say the first Tuesday in August.

That would leave three months till election and plenty of time for a convention.

Imagine all the money that could be saved! Imagine all the sanity that could be preserved!

Imagine Rick Perry being the Republican nominee because no one finds out how stupid he is until after the primary is over.

The current system of virtually four years of electioneering and interminable primary/caucus season failed to reveal how unqualified and unprepared Obama is.

 

[Dr Grump]

Why change it? Do you have something against farmers voting in elections? Do you think more people will show up if it is a weekend? People travel on weekends, they aren't going to not travel simply because there is an election.

Making it a holiday is even dumber than moving it to a weekend. Sotres would start having election day sales and people would go shopping instead.

It might not suit your enlightened point of view, but it fracking works, so leave it the frack alone.

Wow, talk about drawing long bows. What a load of shit...so having it during the week helps those who are doing long shifts or can't get to the polls? In Aus and NZ is it on a Sat...much bigger turn out....having it during the working week is just stupid. Mind you, a huge chunk of your political system is stupid...so there ya go....

Did I say it helps? What I said is that his arguments for having it on the weekend are bullshit. Every shift job I ever worked required me to work rotating weekends, so moving it to a weekend wouldn't make a bit of difference to that portion of the population. New Zealand and Australia both have compulsory voting, my guess is that contributes to the larger turnout more than it being on Saturday, but I am willing to watch you make a fool out of yourself by trying to prove me wrong.

Or did you think I was so stupid I didn't know that little fact?

Um, well I dunno. Are you calling yourself stupid if you are wrong? Aust has compulsory voting, NZ does not. So you are right and wrong...

That aside, the vast majority of people don't work on Sat or Sun, of those that work on Sat, quite a few do half days....

 

[Dr Grump]

How does the election being on Tuesday lower turnout?

How can it not? People's first priority is putting food on the table and earning a living. You think somebody who lives in a right to work state, gets a window of opportunity to either have to work, or vote, he'll not take the option that keeps his job? Sure people work on a Sat, but most don't. Makes total sense....

Because, in the US, we put polling places in office buildings, schools, neighborhood garages, fire stations, shopping malls, and any place else people can think of to make it convenient to vote.

So, again, how does it lower voter turnout?

So do we. Simple, more people work during the week....

 

[Peach]

I'd be all for moving it to a weekend OR making voting day a national holiday...when we actually require people to prove they are who they claim to be when they show up to vote.

That is actually a big concern? People NOT voting is the problem; hard core CONs are like terriers with an old slipper.

 

[Peach]

The GOP have been blocking both options for years. They know most Dems have jobs that conflict with voting and more republicans are lazy slackers, just look at the size of their leader's audience in the middle of the work day. Their MessiahRushie claims at times to have more than 40 million listeners only 20% of whom he says are Libs. That's a lot of "non-working eaters" as he likes to call them, who have no conflict between voting and a job.

As long as the GOP can filibuster, voting will never be a national holiday or get moved to the weekend.

Yes, of course elections should be moved to the weekend; but as correctly noted, the right would fight such a move aggressively.

The Left would never do that, would they?

I know, from personal experience of a county that had no Affidavits for those without photo ID, in the 2000 election, and a different county that did not have ENOUGH absentee ballots. Jeb! Bush made voting as difficult as possible; as I have written several times, I had to cast a "provisional" ballot in 2002 because addresses didn't match exactly.

You can pretend forever but the end result of the voting rights restrictions is keeping poor, and disabled voters, out of the process. As for "too stupid", literacy tests were struck down in the 1960's, thank God.

 

[Political Junky]

Yes.

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

The last thing we (IMO) is something else to eat away from what little time off people (who work) already have. Forget voting on the weekend.

Gee, sorry, we wouldn't want to inconvenience with voting. You know you don't have to vote, right? Feel free to stay home next time.

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

Should national election day be moved to the weekend?

Poll pending....

explain answer.



MY response:

YES. Tuesday as national voting day is way out dated. Sorry but how many of you live on farms? How many of you that do live on farms require more than a day to get to the nearest voting booth?

Voting day should obviously be on a Saturday - or at least made a national holiday.

Nothing wrong with Tuesday being election day.

What's right with it?

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

Election day isn't really election day anymore ... there is early voting everywhere and anyone can file for an absentee ballot these days. Voting has never been easier.

If I'm not mistaken, in most states, to legally vote absentee you have to actually be planning to be absent from your voting precinct that day.

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

True Lewe, but I still think one day should be a national holiday; I know some people who say they could not vote due to their work schedules.

Then they are either to stupid to vote, to lazy to vote or LYING. I don't know a single State that does not allow early voting or absentee ballots. Since they are your friends one would assume they are lefties which means the third choice is probably the correct one.

Sorry but over a dozen states don't have no-excuse early voting.

Its amusing how you accuse people you don't even know of lying.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Should national election day be moved to the weekend?

Poll pending....

explain answer.



MY response:

YES. Tuesday as national voting day is way out dated. Sorry but how many of you live on farms? How many of you that do live on farms require more than a day to get to the nearest voting booth?

Voting day should obviously be on a Saturday - or at least made a national holiday.

It doesn't take a day to get from anywhere to a voting booth.

And farmers don't have days off.


krist

only liberals would demand a day off to take 10 minutes to vote.

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

Should national election day be moved to the weekend?

Poll pending....

explain answer.



MY response:

YES. Tuesday as national voting day is way out dated. Sorry but how many of you live on farms? How many of you that do live on farms require more than a day to get to the nearest voting booth?

Voting day should obviously be on a Saturday - or at least made a national holiday.

Why change it? Do you have something against farmers voting in elections? Do you think more people will show up if it is a weekend? People travel on weekends, they aren't going to not travel simply because there is an election.

Making it a holiday is even dumber than moving it to a weekend. Sotres would start having election day sales and people would go shopping instead.

It might not suit your enlightened point of view, but it fracking works, so leave it the frack alone.

Primarily because our schedule as a nation has changed. Our forefathers made it Tuesday so it would be more convenient for them to make it to the voting booth. I'm sure they would laugh at the notion that people 200 years in the future would want it to stay on Tuesday so as to continue to make it convenient for the forefathers to get to the voting booth.

And I've got nothing against farmers. What have you got against people who work 9-5 M-F?



BTW, you're a grouchy old man.

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

Should national election day be moved to the weekend?

Poll pending....

explain answer.



MY response:

YES. Tuesday as national voting day is way out dated. Sorry but how many of you live on farms? How many of you that do live on farms require more than a day to get to the nearest voting booth?

Voting day should obviously be on a Saturday - or at least made a national holiday.

GOP would never allow this because low voter turnout usually means more GOP victories.

How does the election being on Tuesday lower turnout?

For every single working person who works on Tuesdays, election day on a Tuesday either a) lowers turnout or b) lowers the efficiency of the economy.


But hey, we gotta make sure Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson have plenty of time to travel into town to vote, so we should keep it on Tuesday. Even if we have to put real life managers today in the position of choosing between sacrificing the bottom line and giving their employees time off to vote.


Oh, and BTW - don't forget to always carry a coin with you when you drive your horseless buggy. If you come upon another traveller, you'll need to flip to decide which has to pull over to make way for the other. We could have invented the two lane highway but the coin flip system is just fine so no need to change it.