[bluejekyll]

In most places you can vote before the election for varying degree of times (like 1-2 weeks). We don’t need a holiday for voting.

What we need is the ability for people to get their ballot easily, return it when they want.

Where I live, I get my ballot for every election in the mail, I fill out at home. I then walk it down to a secure ballot drop box a few blocks away. Everyone should have this experience.

[matthewdgreen]

I take it you haven't been paying attention to US politics around early voting and vote-by-mail this last couple of years. :(

PS: the disadvantage of fixing vote-by-mail is that voting is run by 50 states, with wildly different standards in each (and some run by politicians that are opposed to the entire concept.) Whereas a Federal election-day holiday is at least just one vote by Congress.

[bluejekyll]

I have absolutely been paying attention. And I find it sad and frustrating that a party is using its loose grip on power to ensure anti-democratic policies are in place based on misleading information and fear.

I agree on the holiday. It’s fine if they want to do it, I’m not against it. I just think it’s not the thing we need to be demanding.