This makes it incredibly important to actually show up and vote during primaries — they’re what actually decide who will host most offices.
Changing the system would be good too, but you can’t do that without holding power in the first place.
This makes it incredibly important to actually show up and vote during primaries — they’re what actually decide who will host most offices.
Changing the system would be good too, but you can’t do that without holding power in the first place.
The demos actually needs to be able to participate in Democracy for it to function. All these societal obstacles to voting seem pretty intentional to me. Make it easy and effortless to vote (like we should be doing), and turn out will grow exponentially.
Agreed. Making federal election day a federal holiday would help a lot of people make it to the polls. Where I live, the week before you can early vote in person, but I know that is not currently an option everywhere.
Can’t just make it a federal holiday, you need to make it painful for many businesses to run that day or you’ll just get election day sales. Mandate that any work outside of the stuff critical for human safety (e.g. police, firefighters, hospital.) has to pay any employee octuple their regular pay if they are working that day. Not a chance in hell Wal-Mart and the like opens that day.