Merry election day!

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Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have introduced an election reform bill that, among other things, would make Election Day a federal holiday. The last thing we need is another holiday with all the attendant legal consequences and economic loss. However, there’s is a noble aim; Tuesday doesn’t seem like the best day to have an election if you want to encourage turnout. The more sensible thing to do is to have elections on Sundays–like the rest of the world. Even more sensible would be to take a page from Florida–yes Florida–and make elections a week-long affair. Who says all the voting had to take place in one day? Of course, these aren’t the kinds of changes Congress could just ordain, but they could start laying the groundwork to get the states to go along. But then again, why try when it’s so much easier to make a new holiday?

Feb 20, 2005 | Comments

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