by Kim Sharpe

Created on: February 03, 2008   Last Updated: March 19, 2008

Personally, I think that we have more then enough National Holidays. I don't see any reason to make Election Day a National Holiday. Do they honestly think this will encourage those people who don't normally even bother to vote to go down and hit the ballots? Its not going to give a rise to voting. If voting is important to someone then they make the time to go down and do it.

Besides, the only people that ever benefit from National Holidays tend to be government workers. Its great if you work in a bank, for the post office, for the schools, for all other government agencies. But just the normal working person doesn't even get to enjoy National Holidays. They still head down to their jobs as usual. So how could they even think that it would encourage more voting. I don't think our grade schools, middle schools, and high schools will be turning out in mass to vote since they don't quite fit the age requirements! And the small amount of teachers that actually populate the schools who will be getting the day off don't qualify as enough to matter if its a National Holiday or not.

We are getting carried away with National Holidays. Presidents Day. Martin Luther King Day. There are just getting to be way too many of them.

So I think that its going too far to have an "Election Day". As I said, voting is a privilege and its a privilege that a lot of people hold dear. So if its important to you then you will go down and cast your vote as your parents did and their parents before them.
Voting is a learned behavior in a family. Its something my family has always taken VERY seriously and we make time for it. It doesn't matter how busy our day is. We have always taken casting our vote to be one of the most important aspects of being a citizen of this wonderful country. So we head down and vote. But I know lots of people who actually don't vote! These people will never take the time to do it. Its just not important to them. They don't see things the same way that voters do. So making a holiday of it will not change these people. Nothing will. Not even taking the time to make a difference in their country and exercise the right that so many before us died for is enough to incite them to vote.

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