Making election day a holiday probably won’t have the effect you’re hoping for.
Best case: Almost everybody goes to work as usual. A few of them get a pay differential for working the holiday.
Worst case: Holiday means holiday. We’ll give all bus drivers the day off to vote – and hope the bus riders live within walking distance of their polling location.
It’s already illegal to open other people’s mail. Intercepting mail in the US is a really quick way to get absolutely fucked by the law. There haven’t been any cases of people’s votes being recorded as far as I’ve searched. What more would you want?
Making election day a holiday probably won’t have the effect you’re hoping for.
Best case: Almost everybody goes to work as usual. A few of them get a pay differential for working the holiday.
Worst case: Holiday means holiday. We’ll give all bus drivers the day off to vote – and hope the bus riders live within walking distance of their polling location.
Extremely best case: everyone votes by mail early so no one has to rush and struggle to vote on election day.
Mail voting is great. I used it with no problems, even though I still had classes on election Tuesday.
How do you ensure that the vote is secret if you vote by mail?
It’s already illegal to open other people’s mail. Intercepting mail in the US is a really quick way to get absolutely fucked by the law. There haven’t been any cases of people’s votes being recorded as far as I’ve searched. What more would you want?
Who counts the votes? That person knows.