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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.

We don't get either of them off. Or weekends.

Early voting is a better solution to the problem than making it a day off, though.

We have it in Malaysia if the polling date is in weekdays, and we usually have general election on Saturday so most people have no reason not to vote. And even then, we have law that said employer cannot stop employees from going to vote and this is heavily enforced. Though our election is only one day, and once the polling station close, anything or anyone that arrive afterward is not counted

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)

I agree, giving people the day off to encourage voting makes more sense than honoring unnamed presidents (Washington and Lincoln if you're too young to remember). Repubs overall won't go for this because they know more voting is bad for them. Wacky, huh?

I mean in my state I now have like 8 election days off.