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There are in fact plenty of good reasons but this is a fancy talking point politicians like, even though it disadvantages the very people they claim to be in this game for. https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1141054521679994880
The folks who cannot get off work to vote are those who work hourly, non governmental jobs. They don’t get national holidays off. Public transportation is limited on holidays, making it harder to get to the polls. Daycares are closed. So are schools. Childcare becomes an issue.
The majority of the country (including Maine, actually - making this tweet more silly) has solved the problem by offering early voting and mail in ballots. It is, increasingly, not true that Election Day only happens on a single Tuesday.
Anyway this is not a good talking point and candidates should focus their energy on making voting happen over multiple days across the country - voting on a single Tuesday isn’t the reality of most Americans and it’s not the future of voting.
Every time I say this folks tweet at me like “but we must do something!!! Start somewhere!!!” The place, perhaps, *not* to start is the one that makes it harder to vote for the poorest among us while advantaging those who have always been able to vote in the middle of a Tuesday.
Perhaps the place you start is, instead, embracing early voting so that people have multiple days to vote and they get to pick which suits best. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
AND ALSO, YALL, “Election Day” is actually a small handful of days in every place! Municipal, county, state, federal, special elections - in theory all are important and everyone should be given opportunity to vote in each. Do we make them all holidays? Chaos.
And for the municipal buildings used as polling sites do we now need to pay municipal workers time and a half to keep the buildings open, thereby making elections far more expensive for small counties so strapped that they have to buy replacement parts for old machines on eBay?
A national holiday 
is not just a paid vacation that magically just makes it easier to vote. It would, in fact, have the opposite effect for nearly everyone who needs it to be easier.
is not just a paid vacation that magically just makes it easier to vote. It would, in fact, have the opposite effect for nearly everyone who needs it to be easier.
Anyway now that expanding voting has become a talking point - nothing wrong with that! - I suspect we’ll see a lot more of these bad but easy to digest talking points poppin up. Candidates, despite running in them, largely have no idea how elections are actually administered.
