Ask Conyers: Why Election Is Held on the First Tuesday, after the First Monday...

[CorpGovActivist]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_%28United_States%29 (Notice that there was mutual respect for many voters' needs - respect for religious obligations, respect for work obligations, respect for the transportation realities of the day - in short, respect for the sacred franchise)

Conyers' proposal for Democracy Day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Day_%28United_States%29

If passed, it would become a four-day weekend for many!

: )

- Dave

[JackORoses]

1. This is our great Hope.

If Voting Day was turned into a Holiday, millions more would vote.

And I don't have tell you what political affiliation most of them would have.

This is the exact reason such a Holiday has never been created.
The Powers that Be really don't want everyone to vote because then they would become the 'Powers that Were'.

[CorpGovActivist]

2. Did You Notice the States...

... that make it a holiday already (and their propensity to vote blue)?

I can remember, quite well, the schools in Raleigh County, West Virginia being closed.

"Tomorrow, children, the school will be closed. There is something even more important than education taking place here tomorrow. This is a 'polling place,' where your parents will come to vote for the President of the United States."

I remember my parents taking us with them, to vote. Many of the mothers baked cupcakes, there were hot dogs, balloons, and all sorts of diversions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_%28United_States%29

That would have been the 1980 election, when many West Virginians still believed that the New Deal was alive, if ailing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_election

- Dave

[IdesOfOctober]

3. Bump n/t

[nashville_brook]

4. kick for 4-day weekend! woot!

seriously tho -- back when i had a job (phtt) i was usually one of the few voters in the office. co-workers totally didn't take off time to vote... get up early... or stand in line after work. they considered it weird that anyone would. granted, i've worked with some real turkeys who would have voted repug if they managed to get themselves to the polls.

[CorpGovActivist]

5. I Think Lots More...

... would vote, if this were done. It would also instill the sense in kids that voting is important - important enough to close school for a four-day weekend.

- Dave

P.S. It would also give the economy another pre-holiday sale for those early shoppers.

[Buttercup McToots]

6. Aye

I'd vote fer it...

[CorpGovActivist]

8. Seems Like a (Dare I Say It?)...

... "no-brainer"?

:rofl:

- Dave

[nashville_brook]

9. nyuk nyuk

:evilgrin:

[oc2002]

7. All true? so why does the Democratic party oppose making it a national holiday?

because they do not want voters to vote any more than the Republicans. Think about it? It would be too many people might just advance more 3rd party to start sprouting up.

Its all a scam. both parties.

[IdesOfOctober]

10. I'm guessing...

... a groundswell for a Constitutional amendment - initiated in the state legislatures - would light a fire under their lazy bums!

Ides