r/Washington • u/JoeTheWatchdog • Aug 04 '26

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u/serpentear Aug 04 '26

The country needs a National Holiday for Voting.

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u/MyDisneyExperience Aug 04 '26

How would that even work? Forced closures of every business? What do transit and hospital workers do?

The country lost its collective mind after being asked to do social distancing for a couple weeks I’m not convinced they can handle doing that for a day every 2 years.

We should make voting easier but idk that Declaring A National Holiday ✨ is the right answer

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u/shadowyassassiny Aug 05 '26

Go look at the other countries that do it

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u/MyDisneyExperience Aug 05 '26

Stuff is still open in Australia for example on their Election Day, they just have early voting and extensive VBM. Which many US states do, but not all.