Independent Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders: "When Congress returns here this week, I will introduce legislation to make Election Day a national holiday—call it Democracy Day—so that everyone has the time and opportunity to vote. This would by no means be a cure-all for increasing turnout, but it would mark one important step to increase participation and create the kind of political system that the world can look upon as an example, not a failure."
I love this idea, I have loved it for years, and I desperately hope this legislation will get a vote and become federal law.
Even with the obvious caveat that, like other national holidays, there will still be businesses that require people to work, wouldn't it be kind of terrific if the "holiday season" started with a day off for many people, in order that they might vote?
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