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<title>Why not make the US Election Day a national holiday to promote voter turnout?</title> | |
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:56:56 -0700</pubDate> | |
<description><!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Voter turnout in the US has been abismal, especially in recent years. If Election Day was a national holiday I think it would drastically increase voter participation. Here is a chart of voter participation. As you can see participation has not been above 60% since 1968. This needs to change. <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html">http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="http://www.reddit.com/user/dsolomo"> dsolomo </a> to <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/"> AskReddit</a> <br/> <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/otd5m/why_not_make_the_us_election_day_a_national/">[link]</a> <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/otd5m/why_not_make_the_us_election_day_a_national/">[2109 comments]</a></description> | |
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