Posted on 11/07/2014 9:59:56 AM PST by C19fan
When the 113th Congress returns next week for its lame-duck session, a senator with a very secure seat — and presidential aspirations — will be filing a bill to make Election Day a national holiday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said a reason for the legislation, the “Democracy Day Act of 2014,” is low voter turnout on Tuesday.
Sanders said his home state, which had a gubernatorial race, only had 43.7 percent voter turnout, the lowest on record. The United States Elections Project at the University of Florida estimated nationwide turnout at 36.6 percent, the senator noted, with the biggest drop-off among minorities and young people.
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Great idea!! Also have the election winner take office 2 weeks after the election. No more lame duck opportunities.
And the best idea is TERM LIMITS!!!!
As someone who lost the chance to vote, due to unexpected requirements from my job, I will fight hard to keep early voting available....I remember something about “sunshine soldiers...”
Its not like democrats have to take off from work anyway.
You're calling thackney that????
Look ... I'm on here vigorously disagreeing with him, but its a matter of principle not personal insult.
Your comment is repulsive, disgusting, reprehensible, low-down dirty scum-sucking and thoroughly disgraceful.
Shame on you.
Now I get it. I should have said “a burden for most people who work a more-or-less regular schedule.” When I was working the long weeks, I usually didn’t have to leave home until 6:30 a.m. The polls opened at 6:00, so I just got up and left home early on election day so I could vote. But no, I don’t have a problem with early voting, as that does help out a lot of people. The main point of my original post was that making voting easier hasn’t necessarily increased participation significantly, and I don’t expect Sander’s idea would make that big of a difference either. If there isn’t a sufficient motivation to vote, people won’t vote. But I see what the Democrats are doing, from Obama on down, in light the midterms. Instead of even halfway admitting that the direction they are taking the country resulted in the shellacking they got, and their own constituency wasn’t motivated enough to turn out, they’ll point to some problem with the election system itself: racism, voter suppression, or that voting is too hard. The comment made by Obama and the pundits that “a minority of voters” voted in a Republican Senate and House, seems to be a way to delegitimize the results of the election.
Ours is 6 AM to 8 PM, to accommodate early rising commuters.
and Voter Turn Out will be even lower.
Yep!
We could use another picnic day or barbecue day.
No doubt, turnout would be even less.
Democrats, like always, aren’t capable or thinking about consequences.
That was my idea. Tax day would make PEOPLE Think, you would hope~..
“with the biggest drop-off among minorities and young people.”
The problem is not the voter, it’s the parties and the candidates.
The young people and minorities drank the kool aid of “hope and change” and found the results were not good. The Democrats agenda was all ideology with horrible results for the economy. Particularly blacks in some major cities are fed up with the progressive’s government plantation society pitches and rebelling against the party that thinks it owns their vote.
Thank you JimRed.
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NEVER called him that. I said I remember something about it. If you don’t like it .. go vote when it’s convenient for you.
We disagree. I prefer to see more stay under the Photo ID requirement.
Cheers!
I would attach a rider that that voting holiday occur on the same day as the tax dead line or one day after.
Why not keep the early voting like Texas already has and works with Photo ID checks for everyone participating?
I don't know what that means.
I read your comments, and I think of weasels ...
Gentlemen of good will may, at times, disagree without thinking ill of each other.
Be careful out there.
By both those state requirements, I would not be eligible for an Absentee Ballot. My job normally will allow me access to vote. One year it did not, no warning before that afternoon.
I have seen no reason given to stop our early voting laws.
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