By The Way, Democrats, You've Just Seen A DEMONSTRATION of What An ELECTION DAY HOLIDAY Would

[TrollBuster9090]

...would look like. A massive increase in Democratic votes, because many Democrats are working on election day.

That's why Republicans have fought, tooth and nail (...tooth, nail, and feeble trope) against making election day a national holiday. (Witness the half-assed straw man constructed by McConnell, below.)

But thanks to Trump's f--king up the Covid-19 crisis beyond all recognition, necessitating that people, particularly in the working class, stay home...we now see what happens when workers have the free time to go and vote. THIS HAPPENS. A massive increase in Democratic votes.

Want to REPAIR DEMOCRACY? There's easy stuff and hard stuff, and we need to do both. But this little Covid Lock Down has PROVEN that a national election day holiday would have a big effect.

The EASY stuff:

1. Make Election Day a national holiday. Either that, or move it to the weekend, and spread it out over two days.

2. Make a federal law, mandating at least two weeks advanced voting.

3. Automatic registration on your 18th birthday.

4. Expand MAIL IN voting.

5. We can't overturn Citizens United, and put limits on megadonors. But what we CAN do is put a 5% TAX on political donations, with the money being earmarked to support the voting infrastructure! The money would go to hiring more poll workers, more optical readers to replace crooked Diebold voting machines etc. The money would go to eliminate voter lines by guaranteeing the same number of polls PER CAPITA for each district. (Let's see how the Kock brothers like 100 million of their billion dollar donation to the GOP being used to increase poor peoples' access to voting. Those big-buck donations will drop off overnight.)

6. LET ALL USPS POST OFFICES SERVE AS DROP OFF BALLOT BOXES!

7. LET ALL USPS POST OFFICES SERVE AS ADVANCED VOTING LOCATIONS.

(The last two measures would have the added bonus of expanding and strengthening the role of the Post Office. The Post Office being guaranteed in the Constitution. Hard to fight against.)

The HARD stuff:

1. Give Washington and Puerto Rico statehood.

2. Expand the Supreme Court, as well as the other federal courts, to repair the partisan damage done by the GOP.

3. Eliminate the Electoral College.

4. A federal law to eliminate partisan gerrymandering. Districts should be drawn by non-partisans. Perhaps by the State Supreme Court. Not that they're necessarily non-partisan, but hey...a guy can dream. I'd recommend solving the problem with a simple mathematical equation that flags districts that have too many bends, and stretches, where partisans have drawn lines to include neighborhoods.

[Wicked Blue]

1. Lots of excellent ideas!

Also: fire the current postmaster general ASAP

[TrollBuster9090]

3. And PROSECUTE for election interference. nt

[Wicked Blue]

8. Yes!

And sue for damages

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

2. i think us little ppl should be able to deduct our contributions.

up to the $2700 limit.
it is small change for big change.

[TrollBuster9090]

4. Maybe, but I can see the current SCOTUS ruling that it's unfair to let us little people deduct $2700

while not allowing Sheldon Adleson to deduct his $300,000,000. I'd rather just eat the $1 tax on my $20 donation, than give the fat cats yet another tax deduction.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

6. well this bunch, yeah.

but i'm fine w them taking the same $2700 as me. and i give that every 4 yrs.

[Siwsan]

5. Maybe start tabulating the mail in votes a week before the election?

Don't some states start counting contemporary with receipt? They tried to get the count started a week in advance in Michigan but ended up with just a one day head start.

[RicROC]

7. decrease gerrymandering by....

basing voting districts on school districts or adjoining school districts. People know the general boundaries of their school district.

And no fancy modern art shaped districts like Gym Jordan is in or what Louise Slaughter had to contend with. Louise's looked like an old telephone receiver which began in Buffalo NY, curved up along the shoreline of Lake Ontario and ended in Rochester, 80 miles away.

[Midnight Writer]

9. We wouldn't need to add a holiday. Designate November 11, Veteran's Day, as Election Day.

[rickford66]

10. Why can't we overturn Citizens United ???

Follow the Republican game plan and work our way up the courts once it's reformed.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. I can see it now.

Massive Election Day Sales, requiring retail workers to be on the job twelve hours, sort of like President's Day in the DC area.

Election Day as a National Holiday is only suggested by people who work in offices and always have weekends and holidays off. A lot of people work shift work of some kind.

The better solution is good early voting, or perhaps all mail voting as several states already do. Quite honestly Pennsylvania's vote results are going to be a cluster fuck as they won't start counting the mailed in ballots until November 3rd. Some other state, I forget which one, won't start counting them until close of polls that day.

[Illumination]

12. In favor of these ideas & anything to make it easier for Americans to vote!...

[NedRyersonIII]

13. Better late than never

Should have been a national holiday when Carter had both houses of congress.
But let's not be bitter. That never helped anything. We gotta just grit our teeth then bare them.