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Actually making election day a national holiday MIGHT not be a bad idea; it gives the SICK/LAME/LAZY/AND STUPID another day to get drunk, drugged up, and forget where their polling place is.
Better still make election day on a friday and a national holiday, gives all the idiots a 3 day weekend to be out of town, those who put PERSONAL PLEASURE before DUTY should not be allowed to vote.
1: ONLY BALLOTS THAT ARE CAST AT A POLLING PLACE SHALL BE COUNTED.
2: NO EARLY VOTING; ONLY ELECTION DAY VOTES SHALL BE COUNTED.
3: ABSENTEE BALLOTS SHALL ONLY BE SENT TO ACTIVE MILITARY PERSONNEL AND ACTIVE PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES.
Works for me; I haven’t missed an election since 1968 (active duty military absentee ballot), anybody who says they can’t take a couple of hours every 2 or 4 years to vote, shouldn’t be voting.

Generally I would agree, but not everybody can make it to an official polling place on Election Day. My father, for example, got sick and was confined to the hospital for a few weeks and missed Election Day 2012. He was able to vote via absentee ballot, but leaving the hospital for any reason was absolutely out of the question. Nor could he schedule his stay around elections (he didn't choose when he got sick, after all).

Likewise, there are situations when otherwise healthy people simply cannot make it to the polls on Election Day. Suppose an out-of-state parent or sibling dies, and you need to travel for the funeral? I believe a person in that situation should be allowed to vote via absentee ballot.

But I agree 100% with "those who put PERSONAL PLEASURE before DUTY should not be allowed to vote."