Voter suppression

Because they don't want the workers voting.

If you "can't go to the ballot because you need to work" you are a plebeian, and so they have a way of excluding you while technically not excluding you.

A lot of modern oligarchy is powered by these technicalities. Technically everyone has a "right to" participate in the system, but the whole apparatus is rigged in such a way that in material reality only the same nobility caste that has called the shots since the bronze fucking age gets to call the shots.

Cuz America is a backwards ass country

Wait, you guys are getting President's Day off work??

Sure, here you go: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7329

One of many such bills.

Take a look at the sponsors. I'll give you 1 guess at which party would vote it down, because it would hurt them in elections.

It's the same reason Puerto Rico will never be a state.

Because only people who are able to afford a day off are supposed to vote. That's also why republicans agitate against postal voting and why early vote ballot drop-offs are burning.

In most civilized countries, voting takes place on weekends and your employer is legally obligated to let you leave work to go vote

We should just have elections on presidents day.

Because easy and accessible voting is extremely bad for one party.

Like 95% of the US get neither off

In France elections are held on a Sunday so most people don't work, the others are allowed time off to vote of course

Dudes working at most hourly lower end type jobs still wouldn't get election day off, unless you mandated like octuple pay for anyone working that day (They should)

The poor and desperate will vote less under the current conditions. It is all baked into the US cake. Wait until you realize that the US never passed the Equal Rights Amendment. Still waiting on those bastard laggard states to ratify it for nearly 50 years.

Meanwhile all the schools in my area are polling places so kids don't have school.

Why is it election day anyway, why not election month. California and Oregon have vote by mail; every state should

It gives employers the ability to suppress votes.

"We"? Who are "we"? Star fleet?

People have to remember that this is the Internet, this thing is global.

I'll give you 3 guesses

You are getting President's Day off?

Because President's Day is for buying stuff. Clearly what we need is to allow stores to set up in polling places to get it to be a holiday. /s

We don't get the day off to vote in MN but you are legally allowed to take time off to go vote (with pay). So when I was in the office, I always voted in the middle of the day right after my lunch hour.

Because Republicans don’t want you to vote if you have the kind of job that you can’t just take whatever time you want off.