I think we should set aside a few days a year for elections

[Ironpost]

Make them like holidays, parades and such. Encourage people to vote. Since voting is our most important tool for remaining a Democracy.

[spooked]

1. Election Day would be a wonderful Holiday

to celebrate our freedoms, take our children to vote with us, remember the men and women who gave their lives for our freedom.

On the other hand, it would probably leave Freepers with too much time on their hands for intimidation at the polls.

[Vickers]

2. We could call it "Katherine Harris Day"

Yes, I am a pissed off Florida "voter."

:P

[JLuckey]

3. Should be a 24 hour voting period.

[Dookus]

4. even better....

a 54 hour period from 6:00pm Friday night until Midnight Sunday. Make it the whole weekend.

[SCDem]

5. We get veterans day off in November but not election day

I think we should honor veterans by voting on veterans day.

[Ironpost]

6. You have my vote on that

we must elevate voting to the high honor that it deserves

[flasun]

7. workday why

Why is it on Tuesday and a workday to boot?

[Ironpost]

8. I suspect to discourage voting

[cthrumatrix]

9. bingo...

[Monte Carlo]

10. I think Election Day should be a Wednesday holiday.

It should be a work-free holiday, not on a weekend - people make plans for weekends.

Tuesday is just a bad day for it - I wouldn't make it a Monday, either, because then people would start taking vacations on the resulting 3-day weekend. People should stay home. If it's on a Wednesday, people will be near home because they worked Tuesday and have to work on Thursday. Plus, Wednesday splits up the week nicely - it could be called Election Week.

[Ironpost]

11. So wednesdays it is

Your reasoning is sound.