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Election Day should be a Federal Holiday

Federal Holiday for Election Day?


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Republicans win when turnout is low.
No Republican will support any measure that expands or facilitates the franchise.
Giving people a day off to vote does not expand the franchise.
 
Giving people a day off to vote does not expand the franchise.

But it certainly does facilitate it.

That's why I said expand AND facilitate.

"Reading is Fundamental"
 
Unless I am not getting all the results dats on this poll - a very unusual thing seems to be happening.

YES votes are 36 and of that amount 35 are Board members - that comes out to 97% being members.
NO voters are 62 and of that amount only 8 are Board members - that comes to 13% being members.

Is it normal for "guests" to be mobilized to flood polls like this?
 
Unless I am not getting all the results dats on this poll - a very unusual thing seems to be happening.

YES votes are 36 and of that amount 35 are Board members - that comes out to 97% being members.
NO voters are 62 and of that amount only 8 are Board members - that comes to 13% being members.

Is it normal for "guests" to be mobilized to flood polls like this?

It would certainly be a cost effective way to address discussion of the issue.

Them SuperPACs gonna spend all that money somewhere!
 
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It should - it should be a "civics" holiday; similar to Memorial Day, or the 4th of July.

Yes it should be a holiday similar to 4th of July. The only reasons someone should have for not voting for president is because either they do not like any of the candidates, in a state the denies former felons the right to vote, or because they simply choose not to vote.
 
Unless I am not getting all the results dats on this poll - a very unusual thing seems to be happening.

YES votes are 36 and of that amount 35 are Board members - that comes out to 97% being members.
NO voters are 62 and of that amount only 8 are Board members - that comes to 13% being members.

Is it normal for "guests" to be mobilized to flood polls like this?

Some liberal nut or conservative nut is ****ing with the polls.
 
In those cases you do what I do, you select none of the above by ignoring that office on the ballot. I cannot remember more than two occassions since I've been a registered voter (1992) where I have voted for every single office on the ballot. Most of the time I vote for less than half of the offices on the ballot because there's nobody I CAN vote for in good conscience.
So the best action is inaction?

Oh, and if forced to vote, I'd tend to vote for the greater of the two evils, in the hope that people will realize exactly what that individual is.
That seems rather counterintuitive. You would vote for the person who would do worse?

UNLESS that greater of the two evils is female, in which case she couldn't get my vote for any reason.
Only polls a woman should use are shiny, metal ones. Am I right?

Re: voting when there is not a good candidate. Sometimes I vote against a really awful candidate by voting for a bad candidate. Most of the time I just skip voting for that race as Tigger does.
As far as the two evils are concerned, given the chance, would you vote 3rd party just to spite the larger two?
 
This sounds okay to me. Do we go a step farther and make voting compulsory? Not voting in each race, per say, just checking in, as it were. You can still abstain, you just have to go to the voting location and drop off a blank ballot, or have "none of the above" checked.
 
First Liberals want to take money away from the rich (people who run businesses) now they want to make them pay you for not working on Election Day which only takes a few minutes to complete...oh yeah, that's really gonna' fly.
 
This sounds okay to me. Do we go a step farther and make voting compulsory? Not voting in each race, per say, just checking in, as it were. You can still abstain, you just have to go to the voting location and drop off a blank ballot, or have "none of the above" checked.

Don't think that would pass constitutional muster.
Not only that, how does it add to anything, if people are just randomly picking candidates, because they're forced to.
 
So the best action is inaction?

In many cases, YES. At least for those of us who put a high price on Ideology.

That seems rather counterintuitive. You would vote for the person who would do worse?

Look at it this way.... Assuming Obama gets elected and beats a "moderate" Republican for the second time, what do you think the chances are that the Republicans run another "moderate" in 2016? I'd suggest they're pretty LOW. Especially after 4 more years of Obama's attempts to destroy everything that this nation was built on.

Only polls a woman should use are shiny, metal ones. Am I right?

Something like that. Not a huge fan of strippers, personally; but women don't belong in the political arena.

As far as the two evils are concerned, given the chance, would you vote 3rd party just to spite the larger two?

Not "just to spite" the other parties. In 2008 I voted for Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party. He was a candidate that I could support, and happened to be on the ballot here in Massachusetts.

I look at it this way.... It's less about winning or losing and more about remaining ideologically pure.
 
No, I don't want hordes of politically apathetic people flooding the polls just because they have nothing better to do. They'll just end up voting for whoever promises to give them the most free money, i.e. Democrats.
 
No, I don't want hordes of politically apathetic people flooding the polls just because they have nothing better to do. They'll just end up voting for whoever promises to give them the most free money, i.e. Democrats.

Because the last thing we'd want is democracy. People choosing their rulers bah!
 
Because the last thing we'd want is democracy. People choosing their rulers bah!

We already have that. People have plenty of time to vote as it is. If they feel voting is too inconvenient for them, they obviously don't care that much in the first place and I fail to see why we should change the system on their account.
 
no, it shouldn't be a holiday.... but elections should be moved to the weekend though.

we have too many federal holidays as it is...Independence Day is the only one I would allow, but I wouldn't pay people to stay home for it though.
 
If it were a federal holiday, then I could send in an absentee ballot and take 3 day vacation. Oh, wait...
 
If it were a federal holiday, then I could send in an absentee ballot and take 3 day vacation. Oh, wait...

hahah...PERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRFECT....lol....lets see 3 day weekend take a comp day or vacation day take a mini vacation and vote early absentee...
 
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