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Why do people have to work on election day?

blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
edited November 2008 in A Moving Train
And/or if you have young kids, how do you get away to vote? (especially with long lines)

schools are closed on election day. imagine if all those kids had to wait in-line with their parents.
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  • FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Because that is the real duty of every American citizen - work, don't ask questions, pay taxes, and pledge your allegiance.
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  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    They don't.
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  • BetterThanYouBetterThanYou Posts: 853
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    And/or if you have young kids, how do you get away to vote? (especially with long lines)

    schools are closed on election day. imagine if all those kids had to wait in-line with their parents.

    schools are closed? news to me. both my kids were there all day.
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  • yokeyoke Posts: 1,440
    Polls in NJ open at 6am, about 30 people outside where I vote at 5:45am( I was on my way to work). If there wasn't a huge line I was going to vote first thing in the morning but I didn't want to be late. Since I get out at about 1:00 I figured I would be fine and vote then. I was, about 1minute and I was out of the building.

    I do know people who voted before they went into work this morning, a few of my friends. They said it sure beats the line at 6pm and that is what they will do from now on. Getting up a little earlier is not a big deal.
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  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    yoke wrote:
    I do know people who voted before they went into work this morning, a few of my friends. They said it sure beats the line at 6pm and that is what they will do from now on. Getting up a little earlier is not a big deal.

    true.

    all of the VA schools are closed i think.
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  • BetterThanYouBetterThanYou Posts: 853
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    true.

    all of the VA schools are closed i think.

    i wonder if VA schools get the day off because they don't get any snow days?
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  • Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    And/or if you have young kids, how do you get away to vote? (especially with long lines)

    schools are closed on election day. imagine if all those kids had to wait in-line with their parents.

    I took my daughter in with me, but it didn't take me any time at all. (I knew there was no line because I could look out the window of my house and see my polling place, lol.) I know I couldn't have waited in line with a 2 year old...I don't know how people do that.
  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    Brain of J.Lo wrote:
    I know I couldn't have waited in line with a 2 year old...I don't know how people do that.

    :)
    that's what i'm saying.

    it's not fair.
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  • Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    BetterThanYou wrote:
    schools are closed? news to me. both my kids were there all day.

    :eek: I wonder what they did all day long!

    I'm thinking they made their way to NYC, and got into all kinds of crazy situations, Home Alone 2-style. ;)

    The schools were closed here. I've never heard of that before, though. We always went to school on election day.
  • BetterThanYouBetterThanYou Posts: 853
    Brain of J.Lo wrote:
    :eek: I wonder what they did all day long!

    I'm thinking they made their way to NYC, and got into all kinds of crazy situations, Home Alone 2-style. ;)

    The schools were closed here. I've never heard of that before, though. We always went to school on election day.

    strange. i've never heard of schools closing because it's election day.

    i wouldn't mind seeing election day becoming a national holiday. but if it never happens, no biggie.

    and to the OP: what's the problem with finding a babysitter while you go vote?
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  • Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    BetterThanYou wrote:
    strange. i've never heard of schools closing because it's election day.

    i wouldn't mind seeing election day becoming a national holiday. but if it never happens, no biggie.

    and to the OP: what's the problem with finding a babysitter while you go vote?

    Yeah, Greg said they always did that here.

    I would like to see it either be a national holiday or see every state go to early voting.
  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    BetterThanYou wrote:

    and to the OP: what's the problem with finding a babysitter while you go vote?

    nothing.
    figured it'd be hard for some thou.
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  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    Brain of J.Lo wrote:

    I would like to see it either be a national holiday or see every state go to early voting.

    i agree!
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  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Because that is the real duty of every American citizen - work, don't ask questions, pay taxes, and pledge your allegiance.

    hahahaha. Yup, that sounds about right.
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