What people who suggest this don't understand is that people who don't work some kind of "normal" office job, 8am to 5pm with weekends and holidays off, don't have remotely the same opportunities to take advantage of holidays that they do.
Please spend the next year doing some kind of shift work. At a hospital. Fast food. Retail. In a warehouse. A full year.
Then revisit Election Day as a holiday.
So, how many holidays did you actually have off at that job? Did you even get compensatory time off? Did you get extra/overtime pay when you worked those days?
Oh, and do you really think that Amazon/USPS/UPS/DHL or anyone else of that ilk will actually give all their employees the day off? Really? I suggest that if Election Day were to become a National Holiday, the very next thing that would happen would be major Election Day Sale Blowout!! meaning all the poor sods who work in retail will have to work at least twelve hours on Election Day. Forget voting. Especially in one of the ass-backwards states that has no advance voting in place.
Me, I'm retired and I have the amazing good fortune to live in a state (New Mexico) that has EXCELLENT advance voting. One reason I hope to spend the rest of my life here. But I've lived in several other states, some of which were better about making voting easier than others were. Honestly, if I ever relocate, the voting availability will be one of my main criteria for where I'll be willing to go to.
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