Post #4695248 · Elektrine

2026-09-07 08:13 UTC

Personally, I think that there should be a two-week voting windows, and workers should get five days of paid holidays that they can freely use within the voting period. The worker chooses when to use those days, and if they fail to vote, the company they are associated with is fined for a week’s worth of the employee’s income. The employee also isn’t paid for their holiday if they don’t vote. This helps encourage both companies and workers to do their voting. On leap years, the employees should get an extra holiday. Coincidentally, presidential elections are held every four years.

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@DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 2026-09-07 08:52

I somewhat agree: Give people a week to vote. Have at least 1 of these days that has 24 hour voting. No mail-in votes, as it might be bad for secret balloting (e.g. a person tells wt:thons spouse who to vote for). As I still don’t get ranked balloting, have 1/2 the seats PR and the other half with majority need to win, otherwise it’s run-offs. Allow convicts to vote—they should have a say in their own punishment, and as prison-crazy as the US is, the incarcerated there are (still) clearly a minority. No mandatory voting, and allow a “none-of-the-above.” and maybe, Any US Presidential candidate who is elected and over 65 must be able to recite the US Constitution from memory, with 3 or fewer errors, within 15 minutes.

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