Should Election Day replace Columbus Day as a national holiday? (poll, holidays)
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There is much debate whether Columbus Day should be celebrated as a holiday, and the need for more people to get out and vote is self-evident.
Should we just replace Columbus Day with Election Day as a national holiday? Add Election Day as an additional holiday? Keep Columbus Day only? Or have neither as holidays?
Yes more people going to vote money out of their neighbors pocket. How grand.
I vote neither.
Actually, the ones who are unable to vote now because of work are likely to be the ones who know what it is to earn their own money, and will want to keep it.
The bums already have all the time in the world to vote.
National elections only happen every two years, so swapping an existing annual holiday for a new biannual holiday means that there would be a reduction in the number of federal holidays.
The simpler thing would be to have one new federal holiday on the first Tuesday of November every even-numbered year. But it will never happen, as the majority-Republican state and federal legislatures actively pursue voter suppression and would never sign off on any measure that would increase voter turnout.
Not a bad idea. Reduce or eliminate early voting and close all bars and liquor sales for that day.
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