The topic I am going to choose to make my argument will be
whether or not that we should move elections to the weekend or to even make it
a national holiday. In my opinion we should make them on the weekends because
not everybody is available during the week to actually cast their vote. Another
big reason as to why it should be moved is because it almost is biased towards
lower income people and higher income people.
People have many obligations during the week whether it’s their job or they are taking care of their kids. I mean let’s face it’s nearly impossible to get things done during the week. I’m a full time student, with no job and I’m one of the busiest people I know. During the weekends though people seem to be less busy and have time to actually do things that they aren’t able to during the week. With having elections on the weekday people aren’t able to go and cast their votes. Everyone’s vote is supposed to matter but with having it on a weekday not everyone’s vote matter. The government could also make it a holiday so that way everyone is obligated to go vote because they have the day off. Voting is already decreasing each election so how about making it easier to actually go cast a vote and make it matter.
In my opinion it is also discriminating to the lower income people. Having it on the weekday is usually when everyone is working so you get little to nothing done outside of work. For the people who don’t make as much they can’t afford to take off work because they need every last penny or they risk the loss of their jobs. But for the people that aren’t struggling can do whatever they want and not have it affect anything in their lives because they can afford it. Again everyone’s vote is supposed to matter but it’s honestly looking like the people who make more money are the only votes that matter.
As I read through many different blogs this one stuck out to me a lot more than the others, the title caught my attention because it has been a discussion I’ve had with friends and family recently. I agree with you Aubrey that the Election Day needs to be changed to the weekend so we can get more people to vote. I never considered that the Election Day was biased to lower income and higher income people, but you have a very good point because of the ‘being able to get off work’ aspect of a higher income job. And the idea of making Election Day a national holiday is the best idea for America especially since we barely had half the population vote in this recent 2016 election. If the Election Day was moved to the weekend and was a national holiday there would most likely be a twenty-five percent increase in voter turnout, drastically increasing the interest of millions. The last sentence you said leaves me speechless, “Again everyone’s vote is supposed to matter but it’s honestly looking like the people who make more money are the only votes that matter.”
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