[vannrox]

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[RonF]

It's the law in Illinois that your employer must give you time off to vote on any statewide election day.

Making election day a national holiday would be a fitting celebration of democracy and our Republic. Failing that, scheduling elections on Saturday would make a lot of sense.

I seen nothing wrong with a city government, or any government, giving it's employees time to vote. Certainly in Boston you're going to get a lot of Democrats, but that does not negate the overall idea.

If you really want to get out the vote, put up a State/Federal lottery. Vote to enter. Every voting booth stub has a number already (at least in Illiniois). Figure out a way to include absentee ballots, and there's an incentive.

Of course, I'm not all that big on get-out-the-vote campaigns. Even with the current low turnout, there's too many people who vote based on 30-second sound bites. Voting really isn't that onerous a logistical problem (I reserve those with physical limitations). If you're not interested enough in the franchise to take the trouble to vote, I rather imagine that you probably haven't put too much effort into how/why you'd vote one way or another, anyway.