Posted on 10/13/2018 6:53:00 PM PDT by mdittmar
On Nov. 6, Americans will vote in one of the most important elections in our lifetime. Companies and their employees have a significant stake in the outcome. But too many people still say they don’t vote because they are too busy or their schedule won’t allow it.
We’ve seen this before. In November 2016, about 40% of eligible voters did not cast a ballot. Some made a conscious decision not to go to the polls on Election Day. But many of these voters simply didn’t have a choice. Around half of states do not require employers to give employees paid leave to vote. And more than a third of states don’t require employers to allow their employees to take unpaid leave to vote.
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With early voting and mail-in voting, there’s no excuse.
There’s advance voting, absentee voting, and voting on election day. If a voter can’t find time to vote, he/she’s obviously not that interested, or knowledgeable.
The Saturday after.
POTD!!!!
Around here, the polls are only open for 130 hours. (Not a typo).
Buy votes? What a novel idea
With all the time off the Democrats want employers to pay for, when do employees find time to work?
Well, you know, some days you just feel too dead to get up from the grave and vote ...
I’d give them a whole week of walk-in, around-the-clock voting as long as photo ID is required to get a paper ballot, you get a photo taken when you vote and its posted online for all to see (so you can’t vote twice even across state lines because a duplicate picture will throw up a facial recognition flag), and there is a mandatory $10,000 fine if you are caught voting twice in the same election. I would also add that any illegal voters found in the photos would be pursued by ICE and chucked over the border wall.
Eh, it’s a dream.
“Voting should be on the Saturday just before April 15.”
Yep, right after, in my world, each American writes a check for his income taxes because there would be no such thing as payroll withholding.
Amen ClearCase_guy - they have those two events as far apart as possible. Election day should be the next day following Tax Day
No. If you’re too stupid to register and get to the polls on your own you shouldn’t be voting.
I lost that argument, we now have all mail in ballots.
I have waited for hours to vote. It depends on time of day and local elections. I live in the country now but when I lived in the city it took longer. I agree though, PTO is not needed.
YES.
NO paid time off - it’s a privelege to vote not mandatory - but the whole state or country should have 1-2 days voluntary days off to go vote - cut mail in voting to 10 days and have inperson voting be 1-2 days.
Payroll withholding was probably the end of us. If no one really thought that was a big deal then we probably would never really get riled over anything.
I have always wondered why they didn’t make it compulsory to participate in our elections if one receives any sort of public assistance. They would never lose another election. Look at eligible voter turnout for the last 100 years.
Freegards
- but the whole state or country should have 1-2 days voluntary days off to go vote -”
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Nope.
Who would ever need a whole day off to vote?
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I would think that if you paid people with jobs to vote it would favor Republicans. Particularly since most Dems would forget all about the election if they had the day off.
It all depends on how many times you vote.
That has always been my attitude about "get out the vote" campaigns.
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