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minus-squareBlibly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months ago“You mean I have to vote, and then vote again? Ugh, I wasnt even planning to show up to the actual vote. Meh…it’ll all work out fine.”
minus-squareMyBrainHurts@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoOr it won’t and I’ll complain online which is even better than voting, right?
minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIf voting day was a holiday it would less of a problem
minus-squareSpikesOtherDog@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI have worked for companies that would rather pay out unemployment due to wrongful termination than give time off for voting.
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·2 months agoIf they don’t want you voting isn’t that a clue?
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThat’s not going to un-fire them.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 months agoIf voting day was a holiday, only people who get federal holidays off would get the day off. But it would be a great excuse to get rid of early voting.
minus-squarebufalo1973@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoEasy fix (that almost every other country uses): vote on Sunday.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoGood thing no one has to work on Sundays. Easter Sunday is a federal holiday and there’s plenty of people who still have to work. If voting day becomes a federal holiday, states that don’t like the idea of poor people voting will do away with early voting.
“You mean I have to vote, and then vote again? Ugh, I wasnt even planning to show up to the actual vote. Meh…it’ll all work out fine.”
Or it won’t and I’ll complain online which is even better than voting, right?
If voting day was a holiday it would less of a problem
I have worked for companies that would rather pay out unemployment due to wrongful termination than give time off for voting.
If they don’t want you voting isn’t that a clue?
That’s not going to un-fire them.
If voting day was a holiday, only people who get federal holidays off would get the day off. But it would be a great excuse to get rid of early voting.
Easy fix (that almost every other country uses): vote on Sunday.
Good thing no one has to work on Sundays. Easter Sunday is a federal holiday and there’s plenty of people who still have to work.
If voting day becomes a federal holiday, states that don’t like the idea of poor people voting will do away with early voting.