Would you support voting on Sunday?

In a greater attempt to increase voter turnout?

I don't think American politics needs any more ties to religion. ;)

As a pretty religious guy, making election day on Sunday is problemattic. I think making it a national holidy is a better idea; it's not like America has too many holidays. If I remember correctly, we have fewer national holidays than most western nations.

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LOST REVENUES! WE CAN'T AFFORD IT!! BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!

THAT is why we have so few holidays.

...elections held on Saturday and Sunday. Give us two days, most folks have at least one of those days off, and let's see if we can't increase the voter turnout. It isn't a new idea, but it hasn't been implemented yet.

Coyul

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In American society, the average middle class working American has to work 6 days a week in order to survive, typically having Sunday as their only day off of the week...

I just thought that how easy it would make it for the RW fundies that control the Republican Party to ensure the congregation votes the right way.

Why not make it on a Saturday 8am to 6pm on paper ballots counted by people. Result know that night. Sunday to recover.

Voting on a working day is skewed against working people.

We vote on Tuesday.

Sunday is a workday for lots of people, like retailers. So exactly how would it increase turnout? If you're not working, you're shopping and preparing food for the week.

This idea that Sunday is a free day is way past silly. Wait. Maybe it's a free day for the men in front of the TV watching football.

The rest of us are busy.

Remember the season only runs about 20 weeks, so we don't sit at home watching football EVERY Sunday.

That's what Baseball season is for. :)

Rp

As it is now, the system stinks. Lots of people show up at their neighborhood polling place early, encounter long lines and have to leave to go to work. They can't vote during the workday near their work because they have to vote in their neighborhood where they're registered, which may be miles away. After work, they have to go home and encounter more lines before the polls close.

Of course the Republicans like it this way.

the fundies take bible literally and it says sunday a day of rest adn if they voted, then literally it would be a sin,.......lol lo lol lol

Voting should be a national holiday...and moved up to the month of June.

and those working, well hey, to put a 15 min, half hour effort every couple years to invest in country and future. surely we have that in us.

I personally have had to wait forty-five minutes to vote.

as i was talking was thinking about that. why i took to half hour. my place in and out. well the other day for a primary i had to wait about a half hour, was amazed the line

anyway. k so surely an hour every couple hours for the participating in the running of the government......why not

Saturday AMD Sunday, paper ballots, no peeking until the polls close Sunday night.

Most families are pressed for time every damn day of the week. Many families have voting age members who work on holidays, all holidays, no matter what the reason for the holiday. Spreading the election out over the whole weekend would allay criticism from preachers and give working folks ample time to get to the polls.

After all, the reason for the Tuesday voting day was to avoid the weekend market days. The founding fathers didn't envision a non-agrarian society with people who worked 9-5 Monday through Friday. Their countrymen spent Saturday and Sunday in town, one day selling the produce from their farms, the other for all day church (the only social scene many of them ever got).

Yes, it's high time to wake up and realize the country has changed. However, both weekend days have religious problems for a lot of people. Making voting a two day event would solve these problems and give oversecheduled, overworked family people more time to vote.

The GOP, of course, will never go for it.

because "Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest." They won't work on Sunday. They'd go bananas. Hmmmm... maybe on second thought - your idea's not so bad....

The Sabbath is an interesting problem. Seventh day adventists and Jews believe the sabbath is a different day than the Protestants and Catholics. And considering what the bible has to say about those that work on the sabbath.... better leave some options open.

Too many religious nuts screaming about Sunday.

National holiday is good too.

Saturday and Sunday are religiously loaded guns. To many sects that have Sabbath issues on those days. Many sects simply cannot do anything on either of those days.

Seriously, like a lot of folks have mentioned, it should be spread over two days.

And the local election office should be open THE WHOLE TIME, just in case what happened in Florida (voters turned away illegally) needs to be, *ahem* cleared up.

Retail people often have to work long hours on weekends and they should be able to vote as well.

My Mom's motto was: voting is a privilege, therefore, the first thing to do on Tuesday morning is to Vote. She always voted at 6:00 A.M. and went off to church to pray, after voting.

I mostly vote by mail but lately, not trusting the system, I turn in my ballot in person, put it in a locked box, and get a receipt.

Voting two days, Saturday and Sunday would accommodate all religious people, and pacify business. We can have voting tail-gate party's all over the nation. (Good for the economy) That would get our young people to vote.

Our population growth is too huge to just vote on a Tuesday. Besides, voting has become extremely complicated with all the extra referendums added.