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ahahahahahahahahahaha you haven't seen the USA voting system lol. 2024 and its still not a federal holiday.
Aside from presidential elections, every election I took part of was in and out.
I still agree voting should be a federal holiday
Here's a good article about voter suppression. This is an extremely serious prolific problem, often targeting minorities specifically. Republican states have deliberately been restricting access to voting for the past 2 decades and have succeeded in having hundreds of vote restriction bills passed. They are still actively doing this today.
Here 8 months later just to tell you you're right
take care
Even if it was, the most vulnerable working people wouldn't get it off. Sure we can make it a holiday but we should also allow people to early vote the entire week leading up to it and also allow mail-in ballots. That would also reduce the line problem that we see in some places.
You're right it takes 5