Do u think the Christopher Columbus Day name should change ?

@SmartKat 🙂

@SmartKat Rename the holiday, yes - but don't make it an "Election Day" with another paid day off for "everybody in the U.S." That misnomer cheapens the meaning of the date between the folks who aren't or won't ever register and those who willingly go to the polls/online/by mail and cast their votes.

They can just rename it.When I was in school, it was a regular school day and we studied Christopher Columbus and the mistake he made coming here when he didn't know we were out there. Kids today (and some adults) don't know the truth, either. Do they care? No - already most people have the day off.

Election Days-off were made for the convenience of registered pollisters who desperately wanted to vote but they couldn't make the polls in time after work or their bosses wouldn't allow time off. I had these in school.

Put the kids back in school and rename the day something else. And just acknowledge its existence for all people covered under the new name. I have an in-law and two nephews who come under this category who would welcome this more than a day off.

@MaryJanine IMHO, we need to be making it as easy as possible for everybody to vote. EVERYBODY, not just people with a light schedule, or an understanding boss, no kids to fix dinner for, etc. Having Election Day on a Tuesday - a workday for most people - means that people with asshole bosses, young children, etc., have to try to cram voting in around work and family obligations.

Besides, my idea was not to add another paid holiday, but to delete the Columbus Day holiday and make Election Day the holiday instead. But even if I was calling for having two holidays, U.S. corporations can afford it.

@SmartKat Not everybody who was eligible to vote registers or is registered and casts their votes. Give some people another holiday and what do some of them do? Sleep in all day? Have a BBQ party or other festival? NOT ALL of them, but when you give some folks another paid holiday, they usually do nothing.

My mom was a election judge while raising four kids. We were luckier than most because we had two grandmothers and an older sister to do for us, but if she had had a paying hourly job anywhere else (this was in the late fifties and early sixties) the bosses in most places gave you grief if you asked for time off to vote. They did it to my father when he asked for time in the same period. How times have changed.

@MaryJanine The kids are happy to be out. 🙂