I agree! Those of us who spend our "careers" as contractors or part-timers don't ever get a holiday; it won't help us at all. And the mass transit holiday schedule is a good point.
Expanding early voting is the key here. Including some evening hours and both Saturday and Sunday hours. Most people can fit in a couple of hours at some point over a two or three week period, and many Black churches arranged church services, a lunch, then a ride to the polls on Sunday. Back when a federal appeals court ruled a North Carolina law targeted Black voters "with surgical precision", eliminating all Sunday early voting was one of those targets. It also ended Saturday voting at 2:00 pm, with no Saturday voting the weekend before election day. Later, they passed other laws almost as restrictive that had the net effect of cutting reasonable voting hours by ordering all locations to be open on standardized hours even if very few people showed up then. Resulting in some counties having to cut the number of voting locations by 25% so they could keep the rest of them open all the hours the state demanded. And resulted in some people having to drive 15 miles each way to vote when they used to drive just 3 miles. Quite a hike when you have no car and have to beg a ride since there is no public transportation.
In the long run, it teaches that voting is important.
Tshibaka. I keep hearing 'chewbakka'.
There are no institutional norms they won't disrupt for political expediency
oh, fuck off, Rona Romney.
I know, I really gotta drop a thou on a Stihl professional, big box crap, no matter the brand ain't cuttin' it (pun intended).
Wow! Trying not to anthropomorphize.
for some reason Burn after Reading has the same effect that Fargo has on me. the Cohens are pretty good at that vibe.
not ironic, intentional!
I agree! Those of us who spend our "careers" as contractors or part-timers don't ever get a holiday; it won't help us at all. And the mass transit holiday schedule is a good point.
Point that thing somewhere else!
Cannot spell corona virus without Rona
I've got a lawsuit in Kalamazoo...
SCOTUS will need to save the GQP's future based on a more genteel apartheid.
congressional committee now releasing the subpeona they are issuing for the orange magats
I'll apologize after the entire GQP has been consumed by the Sun.
Expanding early voting is the key here. Including some evening hours and both Saturday and Sunday hours. Most people can fit in a couple of hours at some point over a two or three week period, and many Black churches arranged church services, a lunch, then a ride to the polls on Sunday. Back when a federal appeals court ruled a North Carolina law targeted Black voters "with surgical precision", eliminating all Sunday early voting was one of those targets. It also ended Saturday voting at 2:00 pm, with no Saturday voting the weekend before election day. Later, they passed other laws almost as restrictive that had the net effect of cutting reasonable voting hours by ordering all locations to be open on standardized hours even if very few people showed up then. Resulting in some counties having to cut the number of voting locations by 25% so they could keep the rest of them open all the hours the state demanded. And resulted in some people having to drive 15 miles each way to vote when they used to drive just 3 miles. Quite a hike when you have no car and have to beg a ride since there is no public transportation.