• RagingRobot@lemmy.world
        5·
        7 days ago

        I’d feel weird voting for other stuff on a day called presidents Day now. Maybe we should add more days. Like governors day and mayors day. Oh and county comptroller day!!! We should have cookouts on that day also, obviously.

  • Noodle07@lemmy.world
    16·
    7 days ago

    In France elections are held on a Sunday so most people don’t work, the others are allowed time off to vote of course

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      101·
      7 days ago

      Well in the US, no one was originally intended to vote but the male landed gentry, who clearly could afford to travel for several days to their polling place, get plastered on local liquor, and just shout who they were voting for at whomever was supposed to jot that down. Them that person would go off and vote for whoever they wanted, in case the peasants had gotten any silly ideas and voted for the wrong guy.

    • bss03@infosec.pub
      11·
      7 days ago

      Yeah, my current position is this way, and I’m a $programmingLanguage Developer.

  • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 days ago

    In most civilized countries, voting takes place on weekends and your employer is legally obligated to let you leave work to go vote

  • bamfic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    7 days ago

    Why is it election day anyway, why not election month. California and Oregon have vote by mail; every state should

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    10·
    7 days ago

    Dudes working at most hourly lower end type jobs still wouldn’t get election day off, unless you mandated like octuple pay for anyone working that day (They should)

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 days ago

    Because Republicans don’t want you to vote if you have the kind of job that you can’t just take whatever time you want off.

  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    I used to agree that election day should be a bank holiday, but many many still have to work on bank holidays. Now I’m in a populous red state and in-person early voting has been available for years.

    I voted early in 22 and in 20. Not sure how old the law is. I think I can vote early all the way up to Saturday, maybe Sunday. too lazy to check.

    I think this is a better solution, mail voting notwithstanding. Voting doesn’t have to go on for a whole month, but a week or two early makes sense.

    Anyways I’ll be voting sometime between now and Tuesday.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    We shouldn’t specifically have Election Day off work. Everyone should get one paid day off in the period of early voting or election day. It’ll prevent the hours-long wait times at the polls on election day and allow businesses to stay in operation by spreading out the time when workers are off to vote.

    I’d prefer it even more if the money for the vacation time were paid by the government, but only of the person actually votes. Otherwise, you’ll just find a bunch of cruise specials around election season meant to capitalize on the extra vacation time, and voter turnout won’t be significantly impacted.

    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      this scheme has no incentive to actually vote. It would likely help many people in voting, but a lot would just go fishing or stay home to play games. I’m not saying make it a crime to not vote.

      tax incentives to vote sounds like a giveaway to tax-prep companies and tax-software companies, none of whom should exist at all.

      and all of this when the whole voting structure is fucked – first-past-the-post is when one candidate gets more than another, even if they get a small minority of votes.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    3·
    7 days ago

    Bcs the few are important & worshipped, the many are expendable and barely deserving of human-level acknowledgment.

    /s
    (or at least I wish it was sarcasm)