Even as he cast ballots by mail himself and launched messaging campaigns encouraging his supporters to do the same, Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to eliminate mail-in voting altogether, baselessly casting doubt on the legitimacy of mail-in votes.
Now he appears to be calling for the end of all forms of early voting.
After publicly demanding the prosecution of his political enemies, Trump encouraged the Department of Justice to investigate the outcome of the 2020 presidential election with “gusto” — and signaled that the “biggest SCANDAL in American history” will “happen again” unless the government eliminates early voting.
Honestly I never understood the push for this. Maybe it’s because I grew up around people who never had federal holidays off. Tons of people still need to work on federal holidays. What makes way more sense to me would be not having a single “Election Day.” Make it Election Week, everywhere, all the time.
Yeah there’s no point. Just make all elections mail-in, then people can vote at their convenience.
That’s also a good idea. However, election week equals more workers. Not necessarily a bad thing, just something to consider.
Overall options to consider:
All of the above.
Colorado has early voting, mail-in voting, and places to drop off your filled-out ballot.
It’s absolutely beautiful.
If you want to stand in-line the day of, you can do that, too. I’ve done that a few times, many years ago, and I think my longest wait was maybe 15 minutes, but that was out in the burbs, too.
california is the same, plus some people have volunteered thier resident or business as a voting place. Red states banned all these.`
In Canada, your employer must give you 5 hours to go vote on election day. So in most cases, you either start work after 12pm or finish before 4pm. They could also give you 5 hours mid-day, but that’s just tedious and not worth the trouble in most cases.
https://www.adp.com/spark/articles/2024/10/time-off-to-vote-8-facts-employers-should-know.aspx
Our patchwork of state laws makes it a clusterfuck. Also, even if employees should have protected time, it doesn’t prevent a shitty boss from using it as a pretext to fire you for something else that isn’t protected.
Nobody does this, in my experience.
I’ve never had an employer that didn’t, and I don’t know anyone who has.