and why doesn’t everybody vote? I don’t understand why it isn’t mandatory i think everyone should have to, men, women, and children. If you can read the ballot, you should be able to vote. I know my nephew wouldn’t have voted for trump and he’s 10!

    • FuglyDuckEnglish
      9•27 days ago
      • restrictive voting laws making it impossible (usually targeting minorities. I.e. voter id laws.)
      • lack of time. People work. Roughly 2/3’s can’t get time off, the others are sleeping or are stay at home parents (and kids at a polling place? Nightmare fuel.)
      • lack of available early or mail in voting
      • frequently fucked up poling locations, making it an all-day thing in some places (which works with lack of time,)
      • general voter apathy (“both sides!!!”)
    • @Tm12@lemmy.caEnglish
      4•27 days ago

      Are employers mandated to give a half-day for voting? That’s been the case for me in Canada.

      • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        7•27 days ago

        I believe you can’t be retaliated against for taking off time to vote but your employer isn’t required to compensate you for time spent voting.

      • Ziggurat
        6•27 days ago

        The real question is why the hell Americans (including Canadian it seems) don’t vote on Sunday like the rest of the world ? So people do not work, problem solved

    • Tao of FremontOP
      3•27 days ago

      but jury duty can take weeks, voting only takes an afternoon and you can skip work for it

      • FuglyDuckEnglish
        4•27 days ago

        Depending on where you are… it can take an entire day in some places.

        Also, for the record we’ve had Nazis showing up armed for a few elections now… and bomb threats were a new novelty.