My Opinion On Making Election Day a National Holiday
In my opinion, I believe that Election Day should be made into a national holiday. We should focus on giving everyone who is eligible to vote, the chance to vote. As an American Citizen, I believe that we all should have a say and feel as though we got the opportunity to share our opinion when we vote. There are many reasons on why people who want to vote, but are unable to, include things such as criminal records, voter ID laws, or registration difficulty. Recent studies have shown that older generations have a much higher consistency to vote than younger citizens. "Republicans have a millennial problem. Luckily for them, millennial's don’t consistently vote...To be clear, people ages 18 to 34 overwhelmingly vote for Democrats and prefer Democratic candidates even if they are registered as “independent.”"
I believe a way to make more voters actually get out and vote can happen by making Election Day a national holiday. If this were to happen, people would be off from work and school; thus making it much easier to make it to a ballot. I believe that this would give most citizens a better opportunity and have time to vote. I believe this can be a way to raise the number significantly on how many citizens vote.
However, if we were to do this and it made the number of voters rise, I would suggest that we make many more places open to vote from. Since all the schools will be closed for the holiday, they could be a good spot for more ballots. People wouldn't have to wait as long if we had more places for people to vote and this might appeal to the younger crowd. I believe that these are a few ways we can change in order to make the voting numbers rise.
"It's debatable whether election results would be different if the entire population voted, but voting determines more than which candidate wins or loses. It ultimately influences which policies elected officials enact and whose interests candidates ignore and acknowledge."
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