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Old 10-31-2016, 01:26 PM   #4820
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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate View Post
Which is a good reason to make each election day (for primaries, caucuses, or the general, for all elections, whether local, state, or federal) a state/federal holiday so that everyone gets the day off to participate in the voting process.

That all said, and more specifically to your comment, the US election system was never intended to be open to everyone.
Plenty of people still work on federal holidays--nurses, retail/hospitality workers, EMTs, etc. The world doesn't stop moving for federal holidays.

Voting should be made as inclusive as possible, and caucuses are about the polar opposite of inclusive.
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