bigatjoon
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bigatjoon80 karma
Did you hope to accomplish anything?
what did you hope to accomplish?
There, FTFY so you didn't sound like a prick.
bigatjoon80 karma
Did you hope to accomplish anything?
what did you hope to accomplish?
There, FTFY so you didn't sound like a prick.
bigatjoon132 karma
This isn't exactly a counter argument, but the only thing I've seen is that the positive effect would be negligible. Look at this analysis by a Princeton professor: https://www.princeton.edu/ceps/workingpapers/181farber.pdf It seems to me that rather than making election day a holiday, a more effective way to increase turnout would be to expand the voting period everywhere from one day to many days.
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