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The blog post from Yaresi’s Government Blog argues that the US should not make election day a national holiday. The author writes that the definition of a holiday does not fit the idea of everybody having to complete a task on that  day. They also point out that not everyone would be able to vote even if election day was a national holiday. Although the author says that people will use the holiday to relax rather than vote, they also write that many people use holidays to do chores and errands. If people were already doing errands, wouldn’t it be easy for them to add voting to their to-do list? The author also points out that not everyone will vote just because the day would be a national holiday. However, the majority of people don’t already vote on election day. I don’t think that giving people the day of to vote would decrease the number of voters, instead it would probably increase the number. The author mentions that traffic and lines to vote would be longer if the day was a national holiday because everyone would go vote. However, according to their previous statement most people would not vote anyway. And if election day was a national holiday which caused more people to vote, wouldn’t the inconvenience of traffic be worth it?

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