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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.
In Australia we use local primary schools as voting places. I have always walked to vote.
Also lots of people do work on election day, we offer heaps of time to vote before the day if you canβt get off for an hour to vote.
Yea, instead of a holiday just vote by mail. The state gives you like 10 days to send in your ballot. So easy.
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?
Edit: would the downvoters care to explain what's wrong with my question?
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.
An online voting system would be great. Keep the in person, just allow online as well, election locations all the sudden are not busy at all and online is easy access.
Online votes would be insanely easy to adulterate. No computers should be involved. Paper ballots.
Paper ballots are insanely easy to adulterate. No paper ballots should be involved. Computer based ballots.
Har har
You could just vote on Sundays, it's what we do in Austria.
I think in the US they all have to work on sundays too
it would be trivial to allow bus drivers and other essential workers to take half days in order to both vote and staff essential services.
and, as OP pointed out, vote by mail can also exist and be encouraged. itβs simply not as black and white as you are framing the situation.