Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often?

• ardorhb@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Wait? What?

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Private companies are not obligated to provide any amount of leave, paid or unpaid as a general requirement.

    The one requirement that I know of is allowing an employee two hours to vote on the one voting day every two years if necessary to make it to the polls. I am fairly certain this only applies if their shift is the entirety of the time the polls are open, and it is not required to be paid time.

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  • thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Federal holidays can be observed by private companies, but then who will run the movie theaters on Christmas for us to go watch CGI robots fight each other? Or serve us fast food on Labor Day? Etc etc. It’s stupid.

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    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Here’s an idea: Have a few weeks of early voting for people who need to work during the actual voting day, which is on Sunday. Yeah, I know it’s radical and this sort of thing will probably start at least one civil war and a century of chaos and destruction.

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The trick is do you want ANYTHING open on the holiday? Grocery, train station, etc? In America, if anything is open, then the cats out of the bag

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