Election Day 2020 Federal Holiday

Would making election day a federal holiday increase voter turnout and celebrate democracy.

Election day 2020 federal holiday. What if you waited until the last minute. The bill has no cosponsors but the concept was. Politicians most recently house democrats in 2019 have also floated the idea of turning a weekday election day into a federal holiday but to no avail.

On june 16 2020 the governor of illinois j b. Or is it an optimistic idea that would exclude already disadvantaged voters while failing to increase turnout. Decides who will be commander in chief which is a pretty historic day.

More for convenience than anything else most states hold their general elections to sync with the federal election date of the first tuesday following the first monday in november. Pritzker signed legislation that established election day as a holiday. The next national holiday is.

Because of the 2020 whirlwind many states have made early and mail in voting more accessible. A handful of states have made election day a state holiday including new york hawaii kentucky and in apr. Senator bernie sanders has certainly tried he introduced the democracy day act in 2018 which proposed making election day a federal holiday.

With the exception of 11 states that have declared election day a civic holiday all regular operations will be. Election day is tuesday november 3 and some government offices will be closed. Office of personnel management opm which is responsible for human resources for the federal government election day is not a federal holiday.

According to the u s. Based on federal statute federal election day for president senators and us house of representative members is set on the first tuesday after the first monday of november. Every four years the u s.