Something We All Agree On

VaporTrail

Can we get rid of xxxxing columbus day and make election day a national holiday? I'm serious.

heckofajobbrownie

Certainly. Or move it to a Saturday.

Westside Steve

@heckofajobbrownie said:

Certainly. Or move it to a Saturday.

If you're doing a change make it a holiday on a Monday.

I guess that'd mean more working people might vote, so be careful Heck.

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WSS

heckofajobbrownie

That's the whole idea, Steve. Make it easy for working people - for everybody - to vote.

calfoxwc

Vapor translation:

"Dammit. I'm going to feel bad if Cal wins the bet that Obamao won't be reelected. I have to think of something....anything...."

heckofajobbrownie

Also, if you make it a holiday on a Monday, you might entice people to make it a three day weekend like they do with Memorial Day and MLK Day and then you've ruined the whole purpose of a voting holiday. That's probably why it's better to make it a Tuesday holiday or move it to a Saturday.

I haven't seen any research on this, but I'd suspect you'd lose some people that way.

I mean, if you gave me a three day weekend in November I'd vote early or absentee and then go away somewhere, wouldn't you?

calfoxwc

gosh, maybe we should just move election day to MLK day ....

Pumpkin Eater

John Wayne? Do you mean Mad Anthony Wayne?

Westside Steve

@heckofajobbrownie said:

Also, if you make it a holiday on a Monday, you might entice people to make it a three day weekend like they do with Memorial Day and MLK Day and then you've ruined the whole purpose of a voting holiday. That's probably why it's better to make it a Tuesday holiday or move it to a Saturday.

I haven't seen any research on this, but I'd suspect you'd lose some people that way.

I mean, if you gave me a three day weekend in November I'd vote early or absentee and then go away somewhere, wouldn't you?

Yes Heck. I can see that point.

WSS

VaporTrail

I see what you mean heck, but more importantly, this week is my birthday week, so I'm 100% an advocate of making it a national holiday.

heckofajobbrownie

You're like my wife. Somehow a birthday becomes a birthweek.

VaporTrail

I have to work 12 hours tomorrow, on my birthday

And I'm trying to put together a digital copy of a laboratory notebook. Grrr. Grad school.

Westside Steve

Personally I prefer to take the entire month of november.

I will be 59 on the 27th!

WSS

Mr. T

@westside-steve said:

Personally I prefer to take the entire month of november.

I will be 59 on the 27th!

WSS

But you dont qualify for unemployment. If so I would take 99 weeks off and sit on my arse.

calfoxwc

Personally I prefer to take the entire month of november.

I will be 59 on the 27th!

WSS

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Hah. And I'll still be a year + older - I'm 61 in Dec.

VaporTrail

Holy hell. I'm a baby. I just turned 24 today. (er yesterday.... i'm a little late.)

Westside Steve

Well then, happy birthday kid!

WSS

Westside Steve

@mr.-t said:

But you dont qualify for unemployment. If so I would take 99 weeks off and sit on my arse.

LOL

I heard that!

WSS

Chicopee John

@heckofajobbrownie said:
That's the whole idea, Steve. Make it easy for working people - for everybody - to vote.

Unionized Connecticut State Workers get 2 hours off with pay so they can vote. Some people don't find this troubling. Our State is dead. Nobody seems to care.

heckofajobbrownie

Many people come in to work late, or leave early, on voting day and nobody docks their pay for the time they missed. I think you're getting worked up over something that's fairly commonplace.

In fact, I've got a friend who is alive today because he went in late to work on 9/11. He was voting. I don't suspect Morgan Stanley was planning to dock him for those two hours he missed.