@@nothamel1467 no, because he hasn't been paid by his corrupt organization since 8 years ago, when he originally left this comment lmfao, if anything politics has devolved significantly since 8 years ago in America, and don't u think there are way more significant issues in America then why we vote on a Tuesday lol? u could criticize America for almost anything, and this guy chose to speak about why we vote on a Tuesday, not healthcare, foreign wars, military industrial complex, etc, whatever corporation or organization he was working for back then must be extremely corrupt to distract Americans from the real issues, ofcourse these organizations never talk about the real issues facing Americans like Flint, Detroit going bankrupt due to corruption and outsourcing of jobs, etc, anyways people like him don't want to talk about the real issues facing most American's, they rather distract, deflect, etc
I think that election day should be a national holiday then everybody can have a chance to go and vote and it doesn't matter what day of the week or month it is
Not everyone gets national holidays off of work. Retail and tourism jobs, construction and emergency response jobs, etc etc. A law requiring employers to arrange for two hours off to vote would affect more people.
In Italy we usually get to vote on Sunday (from 7 to 23) and Monday morning (from 7 to 15). This way even people who go out of town for the weekend can vote.
@@uraniaininverno995 in s as medics we vote on a Tuesday instead of the weekend because people are to busy enjoying theirs off and having a special occasion like getting wasted with yours buds.
I say we keep it on Tuesday for tradition and make it a holiday. People work on weekends too. And their bosses are the least likely to let them off an extra hour to vote. Yes I'm aware that by law they have to give you the time...but if you think they all do that you have obviously never worked in a busy restaurant. They will just say, "Go ahead and take the hour...and don't ever come back here". We also could and maybe should make voting compulsory! Other countries do it. This way the holiday would be enforceable.
+pimpingmrli I don't see how this would work. Everyone would still work, except those working Government jobs. I work every holiday except Christmas Eve.
I've heard that the election is on a Tuesday because people who work Monday to Friday (ie, most workers) get a reminder Monday that it's election day tomorrow. That gives them the chance to vote before work and, if they forget, a second chance to vote after work. That way, forgetting isn't likely to be the reason for not voting. Has anyone else heard this argument before?
Would weekends work though? Friday is the Islamic holy day, Saturday is the Sabbath for Jews (and Seventh-Day Adventists...and college football fans), Sunday for Christians. Is voting allowed on those days? I think a better idea would be making Election Day a NATIONAL HOLIDAY (like Fourth of July or Memorial Day). Everyone gets the day off but they go vote.
Saturday would be fine if the polls stay open late enough. Sabbath ends at sunset, so you could keep the polls open until 10pm or so and Jewish people could vote after sunset. PS if you're making it a holiday, move it to Wednesday so people don't take a day off work and have a four-day weekend.
Beth Downey I had the same thought after the video ended. How would each group decide to give up their day unrighteously. He acted like people don't keep the Sabbath anymore. I think you bring up some great points though and so do these other replies!
Dom Spiegel I see what you're saying and that is a logical conclusion to draw, however it's still incorrectly equivocating 2 totally different concepts and arriving at a irrational conclusion. I don't think that's what the orig. post was saying or how hell works. Hell is event used to eradicate Sin which exists outside of Gods Law. The Judgement determines who goes to hell. It's a very interesting concept you should look up sometime
I'm a college student, and, due to two papers being due, service work that needed to be done, and going to class, I turned in the absentee ballot application a few minutes after the deadline. Thus, the only way for me to vote this year is to go to the in-person polls in my county. And there's a problem with that - related to the day of the week the election is being held on. I have class on Tuesday, and Wednesday morning. My mom won't let me skip class. I don't have a car so I would have to get one of my parents to drive me home and drive me back. I live 3 hours away. They can't take that much time off of work.
We have low turnout compared to other countries because other countries, such as Australia, legally require you to vote. Even then, they only get about 80% turnout. Boting should be a right, not a requirement.
In Denmark we vote on Tuesdays as well, yet the turnout is huge. But then again we have no super pacs, employers will look favorably on employees who want to go vote during working hours, there are lots of polling stations, we don't have to register before hand since registration cards are sent by mail to every eligible citizen in the nation.
In Oregon, we have a full three weeks. The only penultimate deadline is Friday -- if you plan to return the ballot through the mail instead of dropping it off in person.
"In 1792, a law was passed allowing each of the states to conduct presidential elections at any point in the 34 days before the first Wednesday in December. This was the date when the meetings of the Electors of the U.S. president and vice-president, known as the Electoral Colleges, were held in each state. A date in November or early December was preferable because the harvest would have been finished, but the most severe winter storms would not have begun."
Yeah, i wasn't trying to troll you if you thought i was, just most of the games that i buy are either out on the middle of the week or mondays a couple are tuesday.
I think there's a piece of text within the bill of rights which says that the bill of rights (or some other text... I'm not too familiar with US paperwork) should be updated and changed every 18 years.
There should be an expiration date on bills, that would require the government to vote on whether to keep the bill or modify it for another period of time. This way, our legal code stays relatively concise and old bills like this still aren't around.
I don't ask to be cynical, but because where I live we have early voting. You can vote for nearly two full weeks prior to election day itself (from the Monday two weeks before through Friday or Saturday a few days before). AND you can vote ANYWHERE in the city during that time (on election day you have to go to a specific polling place) and despite like 12 or 13 total days (including 1 or 2 Saturdays and a Sunday) and freedom of voting location, we STILL have record low turnouts all the time.
i heard a story once linking it to slaughter day. they chose one day in November to butcher their animals. it was a community activity and all the meat had to be processed before it spoiled.
Here's another thing: Why is voting restricted to a single day? I understand that we now don't really have a problem with traveling to a voting booth in less than 24 hours, but back in the days where we did have difficulties, why don't they just extend the time to a week or even a month?
I just voted on a Sunday. We are going on a Round 2 with the Top 2 this June 19 2022. If you vote, you can get many benefits life half day off paid, discount on passport renewals, reduction in military conscription and public education with your certificate. And there is a 36 hour alcohol ban. This year in my city it went for 42 hours and it was a bank holiday.
Actually it was a statement by Thomas Jefferson saying it should be updated every 19 years. He said this because this was during the Enlightenment when a bunch of social, economic, and political systems were changing. In Jefferson's day, a generation lasted about 19 years (now it's about 25-30 depending on who you talk to), so he thought a generation passing would be a sufficient time period to update everything.
Ppl commenting that they vote on weekdays or saturdays got me thinking. Do Europeans in general vote on sundays or just some or just the Swiss? (e.g. me)
In the Netherlands elections are usually weekday affairs, but you can vote at any polling station in your home municipality from 7:30 untill 21:30 (as far as I can remember), or you can register to vote in any other municipality within the jurisdiction the election applies to (no voting in other provinces when voting for provincial estates, that would be silly) so anyone can get out and vote some time. If for whayever reason you cannot you can have someone vote on your behalf, which you register on the back of your voting card, which is a letter you get in advance of the election.
Most European countries vote on Sundays. At the last European election (2014), the UK and the Netherlands voted on Thursday, Ireland on Friday, Latvia, Malta and Slovakia on Saturday, Czechia across both Friday and Saturday and the other 21 countries on Sunday.
No ...I remember my history teacher said something about why it was Tuesday. I just cant seem to remember it though. Darn i forgot but it really was something interesting and intelligent
It makes an important point that's valid throughout the world: Some laws were useful when they were enacted, but are now outdated and counterproductive.
You didn't use comma after "No" and you didn't capitalize 'A' in "Americans" and you also didn't end your sentence with a period. Everyone makes mistakes and it's easy to point them out.
The problem is not necessarily what day it is on. Many just don't apreciate the privilge we have in votin, therefore they ignore it. It is an incinvience, they say, but not becasue of the day (because many work the weekends too), because it just is. They don't want to wait in line, or driving to a poling place. This may raise voter turn out and it may not. The main issure is teaching Americans that voting is important and not an inconvenience from children to adults! Write a bill for that.
problem with that is the test can be written with bias and the test could be seen as constricting an individual's rights. you have to reform the constitution to let that happen
Have they done studies to see if more people WOULD actually vote on a weekend? More may technically be available (as in they have the day off work), but on their day off voting may feel more like a chore. The one day people get to sleep in, mow their yard , etc, and you want them to spend part of it voting (and on the grounds that MORE people will be doing so meaning more time and longer lines)? This seems like an idea that sounds great on paper, but would it really change real world behaviors?
I think it is better to vote on tuesday than at weekend. You do not need the whole day just to vote, so why would you want to vote on weekend when people make plans and are often out of the city?
Uh... how do you not understand how it's bad? Think about the people who work long shifts and come home to a place where they have even more things to do. That is actually a very large amount of people.
This comment section is not geared towards lengthy discussions. Simply google something like "advantages of the electoral college". And simply because a majority (a majority that by and large doesn't really understand the EC or why we have it) wants a particular change doesn't mean that change is ideal.
I was told that we vote on Tuesdays, or the first Tuesday following the first Monday, so that employers couldn't bride or hinder people voting with their pay check.
I've never heard that before. Some employers pay on set days of the month, like mine on the 5th and the 20th. I don't think the Tuesday after the first Monday would prevent employer paycheck bribery on that pay schedule. I've heard it was on a Tuesday so that M-F employees would get reminders from their civic-minded coworkers that election day was tomorrow. I don't know if that is any better of a reason than what you heard, but it's what I heard.
you see there's a problem with the test too, where WILL Mitt stand on the GLBT issue by the time of the elections in November? They'd have to make the test 5 minutes before the vote opened in order to make it accurate for most candidates.
true denmark does a lot smart things, but it's kinda small (only 5 million) where the usa is over 300 million..... it's hard changing with the times when your big have a government designed not to change easily .
Regionalism or even communalism would "solve" the problem on a large scale, but it would still exist insofar as democracy exists. The issue would still arise within the region or commune where the minority would be bound by the decisions of the majority through force. The only solution is true individualism - the lack of monopoly government, and the ultimate protection of private property rights.
did anyone google? "...Saturdays were a work day for farmers, and Sunday was for church. And Wednesday was market day in most towns. Considering it might take a full day to travel by horse to a polling station..." you would think that in 18th century america, people will have time to go on about criticizing the president for not wanting people to vote? we have since started smiling in photos, I'm not american, maybe i am wrong, but that makes sense though.
David Northrup To properly keep sabbath you shouldn't think of anything unholy at the day, this made preparation impossible during sabbath, and they were done in sunday, making the actual journey start on Monday. Trust me am on the Internet
Elijah Konzo the Sabbath starts at about 4 o'clock on Friday and ends on Sundown Saturday so how does that correlate to voting on Tuesday they had all day Sunday to travel and all day Monday
Mhhh... You know no one is supposed to work on Sabbath, so every thing including what to eat on Sabbath is prepared on Friday. Plus it doest make sense to prepare two days before.. this spoiled fast back then
Did you read the person's comments? His outlook on how global politics should be handled is that only the most intellectual people can assume control. And if a computer runs everything, in the small chance that machine domination happens, it's practically unstoppable.
Voting by mail is easy; voting online is easier. And getting sidetracked by Twitter or some shit is even easier. People are generally in the habit of answering important mail though, because that's the same way you pay the bills that keep your Internet running.
Ehh... Not entirely true. A lot of games release on Tuesday too. CoD, Saints Row, GTA. But yeah, I guess you're right too. I looked up some other games and they release on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
(actually, not all pay taxes, but yeah I see your point) But, at least according to the guy in the video, more modern voters would come and vote on a day other than Tuesday. Is there anything disputing that?... Not that I'm saying there's really anything confirming it either...
You're missing the real topic of debate on this issue entirely. Those who would call for a test wouldn't want to be assured that the voters are aware of what politicians are saying, they are concerned that the voters are too ignorant in general to properly understand and make informed decisions on what they're hearing. And the argument against testing academically is the uneven distribution of quality education amongst races and classes we see in statistics.
No need to vote on Tuesday if we upgrade to Internet voting. Participation will improve, as it has in Canada, Estonia, India, and other countries that have used it. Security has also been proven manageable, because the pros who set up the systems know what they are doing. Check out my blog at Internet Voting for All!
actually not true most big games will release on a wednesday or thursday because it's the days when most people will be happy on those days and possibly willing to buy games. Even though they should do Friday because then EVERYONE can go buy say the new Grand Theft Auto instead of having to wait for say school or work.
Thank you all for watching, we're continuing the good fight for weekend voting and to protect the right to vote.
Hey..you probably won't remember making the comment or maybe even the video, and I'm not sure if you'll respond but..have you made any more progress?
@@nothamel1467 no, because he hasn't been paid by his corrupt organization since 8 years ago, when he originally left this comment lmfao, if anything politics has devolved significantly since 8 years ago in America, and don't u think there are way more significant issues in America then why we vote on a Tuesday lol? u could criticize America for almost anything, and this guy chose to speak about why we vote on a Tuesday, not healthcare, foreign wars, military industrial complex, etc, whatever corporation or organization he was working for back then must be extremely corrupt to distract Americans from the real issues, ofcourse these organizations never talk about the real issues facing Americans like Flint, Detroit going bankrupt due to corruption and outsourcing of jobs, etc, anyways people like him don't want to talk about the real issues facing most American's, they rather distract, deflect, etc
Odd. Do employers not need to give people time off to vote on election day in the States?
They're legally obligated to in Canada.
+Céline .S. Sauvé There is a law where employers have to pay individuals who leave work to vote.
Hmm. I take it that some employers find a "completely unrelated" reason to give employees grief over that?
If there is a law it is ignored.
+Céline .S. Sauvé I'm not loosing 2 hours of payment!!
I think you have to put in an early notice. And the polls open from morning until night, so its just a matter of showing up.
I think that election day should be a national holiday then everybody can have a chance to go and vote and it doesn't matter what day of the week or month it is
Not everyone gets national holidays off of work. Retail and tourism jobs, construction and emergency response jobs, etc etc. A law requiring employers to arrange for two hours off to vote would affect more people.
There are millions of Americans that have to work on national holidays.
election day is always the first monday of november because that is what it says in the constitution(1st or second)
@@tanynemartin5045 its on Tuesday
Problem with that is if it were; people would feel; vote?; f that, and go out not vote then go enjoy themselves.
8 years later: Where is this change? It's still on Tuesday!
And still on Tuesday in 2024!
In South Africa, if it's election day, it gets declared as a public holiday for that year so that people can vote.
In France, people vote on Sundays
Same here in Venezuela and Latinamerican. In fact, practically everywhere in the western world votes on sundays!
In Italy we usually get to vote on Sunday (from 7 to 23) and Monday morning (from 7 to 15). This way even people who go out of town for the weekend can vote.
In Croatia too
Here in America; it is something when anyone votes at all! I say If you don't vote you can't complain. ...I want the option to complain!
@@uraniaininverno995 in s as medics we vote on a Tuesday instead of the weekend because people are to busy enjoying theirs off and having a special occasion like getting wasted with yours buds.
In Norway, it's Monday, but you get off work.
Also, sale of alcohol is prohibited on Election Monday. That's just... weird.
In Mexico, it's on Sunday. It's illegal to drink and sell two days before because you will be too hangover to go vote.
i just recently found this channel and i love it, to bad it only 24 videos because i could sit all day and watch these
I say we keep it on Tuesday for tradition and make it a holiday. People work on weekends too. And their bosses are the least likely to let them off an extra hour to vote. Yes I'm aware that by law they have to give you the time...but if you think they all do that you have obviously never worked in a busy restaurant. They will just say, "Go ahead and take the hour...and don't ever come back here".
We also could and maybe should make voting compulsory! Other countries do it. This way the holiday would be enforceable.
pimpingmrli I like the idea of making it a holiday (why on earth can we put everything as a holiday except election day is beyond me).
+pimpingmrli I don't see how this would work. Everyone would still work, except those working Government jobs. I work every holiday except Christmas Eve.
+Melissa Christmas Eve is not a holiday. It is just merely the day before the actual holiday.
Voting day should be a holiday, not on the weekend
That video was like two minutes longer than it needed to be....
I've heard that the election is on a Tuesday because people who work Monday to Friday (ie, most workers) get a reminder Monday that it's election day tomorrow. That gives them the chance to vote before work and, if they forget, a second chance to vote after work. That way, forgetting isn't likely to be the reason for not voting.
Has anyone else heard this argument before?
Would weekends work though? Friday is the Islamic holy day, Saturday is the Sabbath for Jews (and Seventh-Day Adventists...and college football fans), Sunday for Christians. Is voting allowed on those days? I think a better idea would be making Election Day a NATIONAL HOLIDAY (like Fourth of July or Memorial Day). Everyone gets the day off but they go vote.
This is an interesting idea. You could try to create a petition for it perhaps.
Saturday would be fine if the polls stay open late enough. Sabbath ends at sunset, so you could keep the polls open until 10pm or so and Jewish people could vote after sunset.
PS if you're making it a holiday, move it to Wednesday so people don't take a day off work and have a four-day weekend.
Beth Downey I had the same thought after the video ended. How would each group decide to give up their day unrighteously. He acted like people don't keep the Sabbath anymore. I think you bring up some great points though and so do these other replies!
Dom Spiegel No one ever said that. You're taking religion out of context.
Dom Spiegel I see what you're saying and that is a logical conclusion to draw, however it's still incorrectly equivocating 2 totally different concepts and arriving at a irrational conclusion. I don't think that's what the orig. post was saying or how hell works. Hell is event used to eradicate Sin which exists outside of Gods Law. The Judgement determines who goes to hell. It's a very interesting concept you should look up sometime
I'm a college student, and, due to two papers being due, service work that needed to be done, and going to class, I turned in the absentee ballot application a few minutes after the deadline. Thus, the only way for me to vote this year is to go to the in-person polls in my county.
And there's a problem with that - related to the day of the week the election is being held on. I have class on Tuesday, and Wednesday morning. My mom won't let me skip class. I don't have a car so I would have to get one of my parents to drive me home and drive me back. I live 3 hours away. They can't take that much time off of work.
1. Ron Paul is at the state historical society of iowa. I've been there ^3^
2. It's only taken one hundred and sixty some years for anyone to notice!
We have low turnout compared to other countries because other countries, such as Australia, legally require you to vote. Even then, they only get about 80% turnout. Boting should be a right, not a requirement.
In Denmark we vote on Tuesdays as well, yet the turnout is huge. But then again we have no super pacs, employers will look favorably on employees who want to go vote during working hours, there are lots of polling stations, we don't have to register before hand since registration cards are sent by mail to every eligible citizen in the nation.
In Oregon, we have a full three weeks. The only penultimate deadline is Friday -- if you plan to return the ballot through the mail instead of dropping it off in person.
There's always pre-voting isn't there? IF you want to vote, there's no reason why you can't.
Is pre-voting available on weekends?
Yes. I did it then.
Early voting can sometimes be any time for weeks or even a month ahead of election day, depending on your jurisdiction.
Darrell Issa nodded and said no... at the same time! Mind Blown!
"In 1792, a law was passed allowing each of the states to conduct presidential elections at any point in the 34 days before the first Wednesday in December. This was the date when the meetings of the Electors of the U.S. president and vice-president, known as the Electoral Colleges, were held in each state. A date in November or early December was preferable because the harvest would have been finished, but the most severe winter storms would not have begun."
Yeah, i wasn't trying to troll you if you thought i was, just most of the games that i buy are either out on the middle of the week or mondays a couple are tuesday.
I think there's a piece of text within the bill of rights which says that the bill of rights (or some other text... I'm not too familiar with US paperwork) should be updated and changed every 18 years.
I don't want them to change the day we vote to the weekends! If they do, that means I'll lose a day off of school!
There should be an expiration date on bills, that would require the government to vote on whether to keep the bill or modify it for another period of time. This way, our legal code stays relatively concise and old bills like this still aren't around.
I actually knew this. I love that this change is happening.
Because it means more people are participating in the process.That's why.And that's a good thing.
After seeing your "Does Your Vote Count" video, it seems the better question is, "Why do Americans vote . . . um, period?"
I don't ask to be cynical, but because where I live we have early voting. You can vote for nearly two full weeks prior to election day itself (from the Monday two weeks before through Friday or Saturday a few days before). AND you can vote ANYWHERE in the city during that time (on election day you have to go to a specific polling place) and despite like 12 or 13 total days (including 1 or 2 Saturdays and a Sunday) and freedom of voting location, we STILL have record low turnouts all the time.
awesome video! I had no idea why we voted on Tuesdays.
i heard a story once linking it to slaughter day. they chose one day in November to butcher their animals. it was a community activity and all the meat had to be processed before it spoiled.
I read that in Australia polls are kept open for two full weeks instead of a day. Too many options.
Here's another thing: Why is voting restricted to a single day? I understand that we now don't really have a problem with traveling to a voting booth in less than 24 hours, but back in the days where we did have difficulties, why don't they just extend the time to a week or even a month?
So apparently, a vertical nod means "No" 2:18
Why hasn't this bill to move general election on weekend ever passed yet?
I just voted on a Sunday. We are going on a Round 2 with the Top 2 this June 19 2022.
If you vote, you can get many benefits life half day off paid, discount on passport renewals, reduction in military conscription and public education with your certificate.
And there is a 36 hour alcohol ban. This year in my city it went for 42 hours and it was a bank holiday.
In Sweden we have a couple of weeks to vote so everyone can fit it into their schedule. Also makes it less crowded for everyone!
1:21 - the little guy is perfect lol... stupid grin & wave, dunce cap, shoes on backwards, name tag "Bill"
Actually it was a statement by Thomas Jefferson saying it should be updated every 19 years. He said this because this was during the Enlightenment when a bunch of social, economic, and political systems were changing. In Jefferson's day, a generation lasted about 19 years (now it's about 25-30 depending on who you talk to), so he thought a generation passing would be a sufficient time period to update everything.
So we might change voting day to the weekend?
Ppl commenting that they vote on weekdays or saturdays got me thinking. Do Europeans in general vote on sundays or just some or just the Swiss? (e.g. me)
In the Netherlands elections are usually weekday affairs, but you can vote at any polling station in your home municipality from 7:30 untill 21:30 (as far as I can remember), or you can register to vote in any other municipality within the jurisdiction the election applies to (no voting in other provinces when voting for provincial estates, that would be silly) so anyone can get out and vote some time. If for whayever reason you cannot you can have someone vote on your behalf, which you register on the back of your voting card, which is a letter you get in advance of the election.
+ChiefPaddy Sunday in France at least... I suspect Chris Rock is right on the money.
+ChiefPaddy Spain votes on Sundays at least since the Dictatorship ended (1977 were the 1st elections)
Most European countries vote on Sundays. At the last European election (2014), the UK and the Netherlands voted on Thursday, Ireland on Friday, Latvia, Malta and Slovakia on Saturday, Czechia across both Friday and Saturday and the other 21 countries on Sunday.
why didnt they just make a law stating no voting on the sabbeth
No ...I remember my history teacher said something about why it was Tuesday. I just cant seem to remember it though. Darn i forgot but it really was something interesting and intelligent
It has been asked many times, but nobody listens.
Does this also apply for Britain and Thursdays?
When there are more than two candidates for an office, there are better ways of voting than pick-one, top-two-in-runoff.
It makes an important point that's valid throughout the world: Some laws were useful when they were enacted, but are now outdated and counterproductive.
people in britain must be getting a real kick out of this video
At least our leader isn't a pig fucker
Angel Gutierrez
oh well, now we have a sjw feminist
Freddie Gardner Us too. :(
You didn't use comma after "No" and you didn't capitalize 'A' in "Americans" and you also didn't end your sentence with a period. Everyone makes mistakes and it's easy to point them out.
In Australia, we vote on SATURDAY :D
Quite a strange quirk of the US. Down here in Australia, election day is always on a Saturday.
And mandatory.
The problem is not necessarily what day it is on. Many just don't apreciate the privilge we have in votin, therefore they ignore it. It is an incinvience, they say, but not becasue of the day (because many work the weekends too), because it just is. They don't want to wait in line, or driving to a poling place. This may raise voter turn out and it may not. The main issure is teaching Americans that voting is important and not an inconvenience from children to adults!
Write a bill for that.
problem with that is the test can be written with bias and the test could be seen as constricting an individual's rights. you have to reform the constitution to let that happen
Most states allow early ballot voting, so this is not a problem,.
cause that turnned out so great for you guys...
Have they done studies to see if more people WOULD actually vote on a weekend? More may technically be available (as in they have the day off work), but on their day off voting may feel more like a chore. The one day people get to sleep in, mow their yard , etc, and you want them to spend part of it voting (and on the grounds that MORE people will be doing so meaning more time and longer lines)? This seems like an idea that sounds great on paper, but would it really change real world behaviors?
what if we vote on Tuesday to keep non-issue-content voters from voting?
How about a Thursday then? Or even for a full week?
I think it is better to vote on tuesday than at weekend. You do not need the whole day just to vote, so why would you want to vote on weekend when people make plans and are often out of the city?
I was confused why it really mattered... at all... until he showed the weekend voter act - so that might do something, I suppose.
I knew about this and im not even an american.
sure make it on the weekend but how about also making it a holiday so even people who work the weekend can get in to vote.
Uh... how do you not understand how it's bad? Think about the people who work long shifts and come home to a place where they have even more things to do. That is actually a very large amount of people.
This comment section is not geared towards lengthy discussions. Simply google something like "advantages of the electoral college".
And simply because a majority (a majority that by and large doesn't really understand the EC or why we have it) wants a particular change doesn't mean that change is ideal.
I was told that we vote on Tuesdays, or the first Tuesday following the first Monday, so that employers couldn't bride or hinder people voting with their pay check.
I've never heard that before.
Some employers pay on set days of the month, like mine on the 5th and the 20th. I don't think the Tuesday after the first Monday would prevent employer paycheck bribery on that pay schedule.
I've heard it was on a Tuesday so that M-F employees would get reminders from their civic-minded coworkers that election day was tomorrow. I don't know if that is any better of a reason than what you heard, but it's what I heard.
you see there's a problem with the test too, where WILL Mitt stand on the GLBT issue by the time of the elections in November? They'd have to make the test 5 minutes before the vote opened in order to make it accurate for most candidates.
true denmark does a lot smart things, but it's kinda small (only 5 million) where the usa is over 300 million..... it's hard changing with the times when your big have a government designed not to change easily .
10 years later and we still vote on Tuesday.
Regionalism or even communalism would "solve" the problem on a large scale, but it would still exist insofar as democracy exists. The issue would still arise within the region or commune where the minority would be bound by the decisions of the majority through force. The only solution is true individualism - the lack of monopoly government, and the ultimate protection of private property rights.
did anyone google?
"...Saturdays were a work day for farmers, and Sunday was for church. And Wednesday was market day in most towns. Considering it might take a full day to travel by horse to a polling station..."
you would think that in 18th century america, people will have time to go on about criticizing the president for not wanting people to vote? we have since started smiling in photos, I'm not american, maybe i am wrong, but that makes sense though.
I'm sorry. This is just epic. BEYOND EPIC! Pardon me and I'm not American but I really did not know you guys vote on a Tuesday!
will Tuesday still doesn't make any sense is traveling on the Sabbath was illegal and it took two days that would make it Monday right
David Northrup To properly keep sabbath you shouldn't think of anything unholy at the day, this made preparation impossible during sabbath, and they were done in sunday, making the actual journey start on Monday. Trust me am on the Internet
Elijah Konzo the Sabbath starts at about 4 o'clock on Friday and ends on Sundown Saturday so how does that correlate to voting on Tuesday they had all day Sunday to travel and all day Monday
David Northrup That is what am trying to say... they need a day to prepare...and they cant do that on Saturday
Elijah Konzo prepare for what if they know that the election is going to be held on Tuesday they probably would have gotten prepared Friday
Mhhh... You know no one is supposed to work on Sabbath, so every thing including what to eat on Sabbath is prepared on Friday. Plus it doest make sense to prepare two days before.. this spoiled fast back then
Has it changed?
Sunday u go to church it takes a day to travel
In the 1840s, every town had a church but not every town had a polling place.
Now the next question; why didn't the Bill not pass?
Did you read the person's comments? His outlook on how global politics should be handled is that only the most intellectual people can assume control.
And if a computer runs everything, in the small chance that machine domination happens, it's practically unstoppable.
Voting by mail is easy; voting online is easier. And getting sidetracked by Twitter or some shit is even easier. People are generally in the habit of answering important mail though, because that's the same way you pay the bills that keep your Internet running.
Also to be informed I dont want people voting without knowing about who there voting for.
8 Years and still counting....
In Ap gov it was because of something to do with farming according to my teacher lol
Sign the petition at We the People, the president's Q&A forum.
thank you ver much.
I had a bit of trouble reading this.
In fact, if we can get the voting numbers down to just the people that care enough to actually research the candidates, we may be better off.
Ehh... Not entirely true. A lot of games release on Tuesday too. CoD, Saints Row, GTA.
But yeah, I guess you're right too. I looked up some other games and they release on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
(actually, not all pay taxes, but yeah I see your point) But, at least according to the guy in the video, more modern voters would come and vote on a day other than Tuesday. Is there anything disputing that?... Not that I'm saying there's really anything confirming it either...
Everyone watches football on those weekends so the vote would be less.
Because Monday is such a pain in the ass, and no one would be in the mood.
You're missing the real topic of debate on this issue entirely. Those who would call for a test wouldn't want to be assured that the voters are aware of what politicians are saying, they are concerned that the voters are too ignorant in general to properly understand and make informed decisions on what they're hearing. And the argument against testing academically is the uneven distribution of quality education amongst races and classes we see in statistics.
No need to vote on Tuesday if we upgrade to Internet voting. Participation will improve, as it has in Canada, Estonia, India, and other countries that have used it. Security has also been proven manageable, because the pros who set up the systems know what they are doing. Check out my blog at Internet Voting for All!
Vtoing on Tuesdays made since at the time but it has long since became outdated.
There are people who work all weekend. Nobody works all day Tuesday. Maybe we vote on Tuesday because it works.
+Wizmut No one works all the weekend... even if they have 2 jobs, Sunday or Saturday are still way better than Thursday
I work all weekend.
+Wizmut A lot of people vote all day Tuesday. More people will have the day off on the weekend than on Tuesday.
Cos it's the best day of the week! Morning sarks I'm quietly optimistic!!!
Awesome .. never noticed ..a 167 years and its surprising nobody asked this question "why americans vote on tuesdays ?"
First part: Good point. Second part: Because then more people can actually input their opinion?
There are too many good reasons for continuing with the electoral college.
At Chris Rock: Actually, our 'student night' is a Tuesday! Horah!
Let's open it up so we vote on more than one day.
In Oregon you can vote weeks before election day because you can send your vote by mail.
They add the popular vote to the Electoral vote.
actually not true most big games will release on a wednesday or thursday because it's the days when most people will be happy on those days and possibly willing to buy games. Even though they should do Friday because then EVERYONE can go buy say the new Grand Theft Auto instead of having to wait for say school or work.