'Power grab' or expanding democracy? Candidates back Election Day holiday

The growing numbers of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are setting their sights on expanding voter participation, over objections from Republicans.

“Our campaign is about creating a vibrant democracy with the highest voter turnout of any major country on earth,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, said in a video released Tuesday announcing his 2020 candidacy,“ while we end voter suppression, Citizens United and outrageous levels of gerrymandering.”

In 2014, Sanders introduced legislation to make Election Day a national holiday, meant to increase voter turnout, and he voiced support for H.R. 1, the first bill passed this year by the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, which would do the same.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., mocked that proposal, although 22 states, including Kentucky, already mandate paid time off to vote on Election Day.

“Just what America needs, another paid holiday and a bunch of government workers being paid to go out and work ... [on Democratic] campaigns,” McConnell said in a Jan. 29 speech on the Senate floor. “This is the Democrat plan to restore democracy? ... A power grab.”

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If McTurdhole opposes it then it must be a good thing.