[faucetman]

“Who pays for the travel expenses to and from the regular polling place on this “election holiday” for individuals who are working long-term assignments hundreds/thousands of miles from home?”

Absentee ballot like you must do now. OR you would be home, with the day off.

[Milton Miteybad]

Absentee ballot like you must do now. OR you would be home, with the day off.

Yeah, I gotta admit...this idea just doesn't make very much sense. It does away with the convenience and utility of early voting and replaces it with...an unpaid holiday for self-employed persons, one that they cannot even use if they are out of town on business on Election Day. I don't want to be Billy Buzzkill here, but this is just not a good proposal. Whoever came up with it just didn't think it through very well.