On the House floor, Rep Jim Jordan R-OH expresses outrage that Democrats want to make Election Day a federal holiday

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On the other hand, Washington is mail-in ballots (and the postage is already pre-paid) and it’s great.

[margaretms2]

@PurpnGold

@Snow96

How about no. People can vote early, in many places it’s becoming vote by mail. It’s already super easy to vote on “election day” around the country. We don’t need another paid day off on top of the dozen or so already

I don’t understand why anyone is against this? We can’t get off for Veterans Day, Labor Day, Independence Day and Memorial Day but not Election Day?

LOL. Mitch McConnell turns “subtext” into “text”:

They’re trying to clothe this power grab with cliches about “restoring democracy” and doing it “For the People,” but their proposal is simply a naked attempt to change the rules of American politics to benefit one party. It should be called the Democrat Politician Protection Act.

LINK

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@margaretms2

LOL. Mitch McConnell turns “subtext” into “text”:

Interesting pattern even from this thread seems to be that one party thinks getting more people to vote is a good thing, and it seems the other party does not think that so much and wants to make it even harder.

[margaretms2]

It’s a long-standing belief of the American right: a feature, not a bug. Here’s Paul Weyrich, one of the founders of the Heritage Foundation explaining it clearly and concisely:

So many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome: good government. They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

Everything else is deflection, hand-waving, other forms of bad-faith nonsense: you know, the usual GOP stuff.

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@margaretms2

It’s a long-standing belief of the American right: a feature, not a bug.

I think as I was scrolling by there was even a suggestion to randomize the ballot ordering? Sheesh why not just add a CAPTCHA test: “Please click all images containing stop signs to continue.”

[PizzaReverend]

@margaretms2

It’s a long-standing belief of the American right: a feature, not a bug. Here’s Paul Weyrich, one of the founders of the Heritage Foundation explaining it clearly and concisely:

So many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome: good government. They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

Everything else is deflection, hand-waving, other forms of bad-faith nonsense: you know, the usual GOP stuff.

I can’t beleive I ever voted for such a blatantly corrupt and undemocratic institution.

[margaretms2]

Are you also a long-recovering wingnut? Join the club. There are lots of us here, or at least, there were in the past.

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If the GOP could, they would have polls taxes brought back. You know, to keep some skin in the game!

[PizzaReverend]

@margaretms2

Are you also a long-recovering wingnut? Join the club. There are lots of us here, or at least, there were in the past.

I wouldn’t say I was a wingnut, but I did vote straight Republican for most of my voting life. Ironically I lived in CA at the time, where it’s bad juju to be a Republican. But almost the instant I move to Texas, Trump happens, and I took a swing to the left.

Maybe some day the Republican party will be in a place where I could vote for one of them again. At the moment, I’m so disgusted by the lies, corruption, hypocrisy and moral cowardice of the party that I wouldn’t vote one for dog catcher.

[CanadianJudo]

Only in America would people not want a paid day off.

[Bomberfox]

Except this literally isnt a special interest holiday unless you consider civic duty to be a special interest.

[madasheck]

@W_and_C

You said where you grew up locally, some schools closed.

I’d be fine with local municipalities or employers making that decision. We don’t need a national holiday.

We don’t need two February holidays for president’s birthdays, either.

[madasheck]

@Guvnah

Why not this too?

We have enough holidays already. Every interest-group wants a holiday. We could end up with 365 holidays, and would work only one day every 4 years, on Feb 29.

I’m with W_and_C’s sarcasm about making every Monday a holiday. (My suggestion of the Monday after springing forward was also sarcasm.)

Mail in your ballots, folks. It’s quicker than standing in any line, and the 55 cent cost is cheaper than whatever it costs to get yourself to a physical polling location.

Eliminate Lincoln’s birthday and you’re all set.

[madasheck]

@Snow96

@PizzaReverend

Ok, fine. Let’s move Labor Day to the Second Tuesday of November so we don’t waste those precious manpower hours you are suddenly so concerned about.

Why is it that’s Republicans are so utterly terrified of anything that would make it easier for people to vote?

Actually wait, I have a good guess.

Voting is easy, we don’t need a holiday for it. Holliday on a Tuesday? How many take the Monday off as well and those holidays now and go away for a 4 day weekend?

We don’t need another holiday, we don’t need to move any holidays. It’s easy to vote as is.

Make it even easier and keep the polls open longer and make early voting more available. And stop taking the opposing party off the voting rolls.

[Jezcoe]

@margaretms2

@PurpnGold

@Snow96

How about no. People can vote early, in many places it’s becoming vote by mail. It’s already super easy to vote on “election day” around the country. We don’t need another paid day off on top of the dozen or so already

I don’t understand why anyone is against this? We can’t get off for Veterans Day, Labor Day, Independence Day and Memorial Day but not Election Day?

LOL. Mitch McConnell turns “subtext” into “text”:

They’re trying to clothe this power grab with cliches about “restoring democracy” and doing it “For the People,” but their proposal is simply a naked attempt to change the rules of American politics to benefit one party. It should be called the Democrat Politician Protection Act.

LINK

Well that is certainly saying the quiet part out loud.

[Bomberfox]

That was a long standing theme around these parts. Now that i know the history of poll taxes, i tend to jeer at people who suggest bringing that stuff back.

[W_and_C]

@madasheck

@W_and_C

You said where you grew up locally, some schools closed.

I’d be fine with local municipalities or employers making that decision. We don’t need a national holiday.

We don’t need two February holidays for president’s birthdays, either.

One is Presidents Day, what’s the other one ?

[PurpnGold]

Lincoln’s Birthday I believe.

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@PurpnGold

Lincoln’s Birthday I believe.

I don’t think that is a federal holiday.

[W_and_C]

@PurpnGold

Lincoln’s Birthday I believe.

But does anyone actually get that day off ?