Declare a National Holiday for November Election Day every year from 2013 onward. .
Why is this important?
Voter disenfranchisement happens nationally through long lines, polling stations that are too small, have little parking and/or are difficult to locate, unqualified or slow poll workers, poor line management and in many other ways.
A National Holiday every November election day would
1. Close schools : this would open up schools to be polling places.
2. Provide poll workers on that day.
3.Proclaim that voting is essential to our democracy by being a national holiday.
4. Allow voters to come throughout the day, not just as polls open and after their work hours. This would greatly lessen lines.
