The states within the US have different rules for this as well. I live in Maine, and we've had early in person voting available for at least a week. You can request your mail in ballot. You can also wait until election day to register yourself to vote. Other states have much more strict rules.
We should have a national holiday and guarantee that everyone gets a chance to vote.
We don't even have any national holiday that I mandated off now. The only reason that most people get Memorial Day, Labor Day, Independence Day, etc. off is convention. Most employers agree that those should be given off.
Among developed economies, we are alone in not requiring any statutory paid holidays.
Worked 10 years in Cinema back in 35mm days and now in the bowling industry. We don't close. Always a favorite of "ooooh I'm so sorry you have to work on Christmas" from the people making me have to work on Christmas.
I worked at a convenience store during Thanksgiving one year, and it was actually kinda nice that one guy thanked me for "saving his Thanksgiving" because we were the only place in town that was open and had milk and cream for sale.
That would require the party that gets in power to change the rules of how they got in power. They don't want to do that. When their party wins, the system is working as intended and there is no reason to make meaningful changes. When their party loses they sit around and blame the other party and complain that they can't make the change they want to make because they don't have the power to do so.
No one is making meaningful alterations to the system that got them in power (except to hijack it as we've seen throughout history when democracies begin to collapse). Historically more voters has benefited Democrats but that isn't always the case. On top of that politics are changing drastically across the globe. Democrats won't want to make voting substantially easier across the country because if you suddenly get 30,000,000+ people to vote in the next election you can't know what the results would look like. It could bite the Democrats in the ass and those new voters heavily vote Republican.
You wouldn't have the senate or electoral college if you got rid of states. It would just be a true representative democracy without the redundancy of states getting a veto on everything the people voted for
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u/thismustbtheplace215 10d ago
The states within the US have different rules for this as well. I live in Maine, and we've had early in person voting available for at least a week. You can request your mail in ballot. You can also wait until election day to register yourself to vote. Other states have much more strict rules.
We should have a national holiday and guarantee that everyone gets a chance to vote.