Mitch McConnell: making Election Day a federal holiday is a Democratic "power grab"

[babylonsister]

Mitch McConnell: making Election Day a federal holiday is a Democratic “power grab”
McConnell is saying the quiet part out loud on voting rights.
By Tara Golshan Jan 30, 2019, 4:40pm EST


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn’t think Election Day should be a federal holiday because that would give Democrats too much power.

McConnell took to the Senate floor Wednesday to rail against HR 1, the sweeping anti-corruption proposal House Democrats have put forward as their first bill in the majority. Among many other measures, it proposes making Election Day a federal holiday and encourages private sector businesses to do the same.

McConnell, who calls the bill the “Democratic Politician Protection Act,” sees that as a “power grab.”

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

The proposal to make Election Day a federal holiday is based on a simple reality: A wide swath of the American public doesn’t vote — and most of those nonvoters say they skipped the polls because they had to work or get kids to school and didn’t have the time.

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https://www.vox.com/2019/1/30/18203936/mitch-mcconnell-election-day-federal-holiday

[underpants]

1. Getting more votes because more people want to and can vote for a candidate

What a radical idea.

[pangaia]

2. Damn right it is a power grab you shit for a heart fuckwad.

'Cause more people voting means you and your kind are burnt toast...

[defacto7]

3. If making voting easier and more accessible is a power grab, then yes, fine, it's a power grab.

[flibbitygiblets]

10. Yeah!

[Revanchist]

4. If that happens we should have elections over a two day period

That way businesses can stagger employees so that everyone has a chance to vote and have a day off

[JDC]

5. Getting the people to vote a "power grab"

I would suggest limiting their opportunity to vote, is more of one.

These clowns know they are nothing if the people actually showed up and spoke through their vote.

[flibbitygiblets]

11. Yeah!

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Okay,here is a little bit from the

Campaign of Hubert Humphrey for President . And this was early 1960,one of our Message items was,a National Day for Voting. So this is nothing new. BTW,do recall this idea being brought forth by Tom Harkin,Paul Wellstone,and again by Bobby Kennedy.

[unblock]

7. Another republican admission that they'd lose if the will of the people counted

[sinkingfeeling]

8. So, then, why do so many other democracies have holidays for elections?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. McConnell wants to select voters

Moscow Mitch and the Russiapublicans do not want democracy. They want to select their voters, not be selected by voters.

[coeur_de_lion]

12. Sure. Because only registered Democrats can have the day off.

Asshole.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. Are most owners of companies, which make sure working-class voters are too busy to vote Republicans?

[akraven]

14. McConnell is so full of shit his skin is turning the color of people he'd like to enslave.

A simple even half-holiday would provide access to voters.

[Takket]

15. those damn democrats want all those pesky "people" to be able to vote!!!!!!!!

This is a disgrace to democracy!!!!!!!!!