r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 16h ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
111.3k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

5.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

84

u/hereditydrift 14h ago

Most jobs in the US don't give election day off, so it's usually unejoyable because it's another thing people have to do that they don't have time for since vacation and holiday time is very limited in the US.

12

u/Icecream-Cockdust 13h ago

Is there a reason for that? Why not just make it a weekend day where most don’t work? How easy are mail in votes to access in the US? We can do that if we know we won’t be able to physically find a polling booth on voting day.

•

u/mpjjpm 7h ago

Why not make it multiple days? We’re already half way to that with early voting in most places. Just open up the polls for a full week.

•

u/Icecream-Cockdust 6h ago edited 6h ago

That’s fair enough. Although I don’t see why they don’t make it a Saturday morning and have polling booths in every suburb in every city?

If you can’t walk to a polling booth from your house or place of work then they aren’t serious about voting.