[brlewis]

This sounds like an argument for making the primary elections into holidays. By the time the general election rolls around it's too late.

[groby_b]

I think that

a) All elections should offer a mail-in ballot

b) All elections should be on Saturday or Sunday

c) If you work on those days, you should be entitled to paid time off.

In that order. Alas, c) is the only item our community can affect, so we'll have to do that if we want to do anything.

[Edit: I also think that HN really could do with support for enumerations. We're engineers. We enumerate :)]

[tormeh]

The primaries can just be moved. The democratic and republican party aren't government institutions written into the constitution, they're just associations of politicians.