But then Black people might vote. America still hasn’t forgiven Black people for existing.
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 months agoIt’s such a strange concept that it isn’t a national holiday to enable everyone to vote.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
distantsounds@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If the goal was to have everyone vote, it wouldn’t be Tuesday and everyone would automatically be registered with mail-in being an option.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Or at least a legal requirement for employers to allow time off during employees shifts to vote.
mke_geek@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Federal law doesn’t require employers to give employees any time off to vote, much less paid time off. Instead, the laws vary from state to state: Just 29 states and the District of Columbia currently require employers to give employees time off to vote in general elections.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Federal law doesn’t require employers to give employees any time off to vote
I know it doesn’t.
I’m saying it should.
mke_geek@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That would be something you’d have to take up with the government. Maybe start local because every state can set different laws.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sadly, it’s not strange at all. We’re a capitalist country. This is what our votes support every two years.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In France it’s always on a Sunday, because guess what: most people don’t work on Sunday
Also if you do work on Sunday your boss is legally bound to allow you to go vote because of course we do, it’s a democracy ffs
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The US is more like the EU than any specific country as each state has its own laws but are also bound by federal ones. In Colorado, where I live, we all vote by mail in ballot, which can be mailed in or dropped off in voting drop boxes anytime. No need to drive to a polling station or wait in line.
Atin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or at least on a weekend.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s interesting to see this reply from someone calling themselves ‘Anticorp’.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What did I reply? I don’t remember. Whatever it was, I obviously rethought it since I deleted it right away. Somehow you still saw it.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You said something like: “The founding fathers only intended for educated landowners to vote, and the more you see from the Internet, the more you think they were right.”
(Something like that.)
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not strange; they don’t want the poorest and lower class people to be able to vote.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Only 14 of the 50 states do not have voting leave statues. 10 are northern states …
www.dorsey.com/~/media/…/election-guide.pdf
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Statutes, not statues.