• Count Regal Inkwell
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    Because they don’t want the workers voting.

    If you “can’t go to the ballot because you need to work” you are a plebeian, and so they have a way of excluding you while technically not excluding you.

    A lot of modern oligarchy is powered by these technicalities. Technically everyone has a “right to” participate in the system, but the whole apparatus is rigged in such a way that in material reality only the same nobility caste that has called the shots since the bronze fucking age gets to call the shots.

    • @Pacattack57
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      By law employers are required to allow their workers an opportunity to vote. The problem is other stuff like taking their kids to school and having to go to work right after and by the time you make it to the poll through rush hour traffic, the line is out the door and they shut it down and don’t let you vote even though you waited for an hour.

  • @[email protected]
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    I used to agree that election day should be a bank holiday, but many many still have to work on bank holidays. Now I’m in a populous red state and in-person early voting has been available for years.

    I voted early in 22 and in 20. Not sure how old the law is. I think I can vote early all the way up to Saturday, maybe Sunday. too lazy to check.

    I think this is a better solution, mail voting notwithstanding. Voting doesn’t have to go on for a whole month, but a week or two early makes sense.

    Anyways I’ll be voting sometime between now and Tuesday.

  • @Hikermick
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    Like 95% of the US get neither off

  • @LovableSidekick
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    I agree, giving people the day off to encourage voting makes more sense than honoring unnamed presidents (Washington and Lincoln if you’re too young to remember). Repubs overall won’t go for this because they know more voting is bad for them. Wacky, huh?

  • @bamfic
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    Why is it election day anyway, why not election month. California and Oregon have vote by mail; every state should

  • @chiliedogg
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    We shouldn’t specifically have Election Day off work. Everyone should get one paid day off in the period of early voting or election day. It’ll prevent the hours-long wait times at the polls on election day and allow businesses to stay in operation by spreading out the time when workers are off to vote.

    I’d prefer it even more if the money for the vacation time were paid by the government, but only of the person actually votes. Otherwise, you’ll just find a bunch of cruise specials around election season meant to capitalize on the extra vacation time, and voter turnout won’t be significantly impacted.

    • @Valmond
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      At least make it a sunday lol, a tuesday wtf?!!

    • @LovableSidekick
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      Good point, the real solution is to spread out the election and make voting easier, as in mail-in.

  • stebo
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    why the fuck is election day not on a Sunday like any normal fucking country?

    • @Qwazpoi
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      Bus doesn’t even run on Sundays where I live in large areas (one of the top 10 largest cities in the US)

    • Diplomjodler
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      If people actually voted, they might vote for people the oligarchy doesn’t like. Bet you didn’t think about that, huh? Checkmate libruls!

    • @Jackthelad
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      What? Don’t you get like 16 hours to vote on polling day?

      We have elections on Thursdays in the UK and no one claims not having the whole day off is “voter supression” because you’ve got plenty of time to vote and it only takes five minutes.

  • @doingthestuff
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    We don’t get either of them off. Or weekends.

  • @very_well_lost
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    Wait, you guys are getting President’s Day off work??

    • @[email protected]
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      This was my thought as well. Too many years of retail has left me with an instinctual hatred for holidays. Like how Labor Day is a holiday for the rich to “celebrate” the working poor who have to work that day.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah, making election day a national holiday doesn’t help those of us who don’t get most holidays off.

      • @disguy_ovahea
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        Right. Congress would need to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to mandate that employers give national holidays off to employees for this to apply to everyone.

        • @[email protected]
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          Protesting for fair rest days has taken a back seat to letting women marry women and also ensuring women don’t fucking die around childbirth or complications getting there, which seem to be very pressing and fundamental issues we seem to have lost value in solving. Also, issues like black slavery and prisoner slavery and women’s slavery and rapists choosing their kids’ mom’s and something about the overwhelming prevalence of fucking boomsticks in every part of that and everything else, like schools.

          It’s like there’s a million mind-numbingly simple things we should have solved trivially with an “of course I’m not a dick” vote that we seem to have stalled on or went backward about, and these are pushing the more nuanced class war issues onto the back back back burner pending their resolution.

          Fuck this exhausting shit and the effort to just keep a country going where people are dying and blaming Biden for it. Secede from those richbitch fuckwits and their hillbilly fan base. When all their people are dying and dead, buy the land to settle the debt and then reunify better. We don’t tolerate intolerance, and maybe that means we can’t save this version of the matri-uh, union, and maybe we need to start working on the next.

    • @jaybone
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      Maybe OP works at an elementary school 40 years ago.

      Though somehow there’s usually a mattress sale.

      • @TrickDacy
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        I’ve been getting it off for years. I know teachers do too, but I’m not a teacher.

  • @finitebanjo
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    Because more votes in elections would mean more taxing the rich and more workers rights.

  • @[email protected]
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    Because only people who are able to afford a day off are supposed to vote. That’s also why republicans agitate against postal voting and why early vote ballot drop-offs are burning.