Posted on 10/29/2024 10:19:31 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Designating Election Day as a national holiday and giving workers the day off paid would largely mitigate the need for mail-in voting and make possible a return to paper ballots, eliminating the need for voting machines which have been swamped in scandal since 2020.
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Voting used to require property ownership. Then there’s the laws that kept blacks from voting. We have to live with it. Requiring all ballots in English? Fair?
“should not entice them” {;^)
Changing Election Day to Saturday would require a Constitutional Amendment. Making it a holiday merely requires a bill and a really cool cartoon song.
Heard that somewhere. Guess we’ll have to deal with it like mail-in now.
Looks to me like Article I section 4 covers the authority of Congress to legislate “times, places, and manner” of holding elections. Congress established the current “first Tuesday after the first Monday” as election day in 1845. Congress could easily enact the proposed changes , but in reality, as long as there are democrats, won’t do it.
Working a 48/96 I leave the house at 0520 Monday morning, drive about an hour to work and get off duty at 0700 Wednesday morning. Election day is Tuesday. How am I going to make that work?
Elections certainly CAN be secured. If the powers that be want to. That’s the problem. For some reason not everybody wants a controlled process and secure elections.
**Working a 48/96 I leave the house at 0520 Monday morning, drive about an hour to work and get off duty at 0700 Wednesday morning. Election day is Tuesday. How am I going to make that work?**
Absentee. Just prove it-your situation. Do it at the county office. The late Lyn Nofziger received his ballot a day late. The postal worker knew who he was.
Btw. No new registrations after Oct. 1.
Yeah, make it harder for employers to stay in business by paying for more days off!
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