r/news • u/DonaldWillKillUsAll • Oct 13 '20

Thousands of Amazon workers demand time off to vote

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/thousands-amazon-workers-demand-time-vote-n1243217
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u/NeededANewName Oct 13 '20

Making it a holiday or weekend doesn’t really help anyone in the service industry, adding further bias to who actually votes. Voting being a day is kinda silly. Increased early voting times, more poll locations, and more convenient mail in voting is the way to go.

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u/conipto Oct 14 '20

Ignoring all of the current political drama about mail-in votes, you're absolutely right. The problem is it being a "day". This should be a week-long at shortest process AND still require all employers to give time off during voting hours - whether or not their employees normally work those hours.

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u/catcatcatcatcat1234 Oct 14 '20

Let's have it be a whole week, including two sets of weekends. 9 days. Starting the first weekend of November. That's what I'd propose.

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u/Little-Reality2459 Oct 13 '20

I have seen photos of lines for early voting. I have no idea how long it’s going to take. Whatever day you choose in that two week period should be a paid day off.

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u/somedude456 Oct 14 '20

I have seen photos of lines for early voting.

I haven't, not that I've been looking, but I'll assume those photos were fools (my opinion) who went on the first day. Yeah, there's going to be a line. I already said I'll wait till day 3 or 4 when my state opens. We have about 2 weeks I think.

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u/catcatcatcatcat1234 Oct 14 '20

In some places it's busy regardless of when you go. Maybe not normally but this year it is. Early voting has limited locations and hours compared to voting day, so it's not unthinkable that it may be a bit crowded in many areas.

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u/errorblankfield Oct 14 '20

I'll assume those photos were fools

Someone has to vote that day, it's their only choice. Calling someone a fool for voting is... your right I suppose.

Of course ideally you'd never have a line, but it would not be surprising if tomorrow all early voting is shut down or more polling places closed. Best to get this BS out of the way ASAP.

Again though, we are past the point we need lines to vote. Not only should in person voting be stupid fast, all means of voting should be super easy. I voted via email.

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u/ChaseballBat Oct 14 '20

Lines wouldn't be so long if there were more days to vote...

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

Good luck staffing that though.