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protomyth
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Switching to Saturday would get the US in trouble with many religions in the US that would absolutely forbid voting on a Saturday. A weekday is much safer.
Having election day be a federal holiday wouldn't hurt.
rmc
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Why doesn't that happen now? Friday is the Muslim holy day?
protomyth
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Tuesday tends to me no major religion's holy day, and the country was Judeo-Christian at its founding.
Evbn
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Unrestricted mail in voting would solve these problems. WA and OR mail in, no problem.
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Having election day be a federal holiday wouldn't hurt.