Regarding yesterday’s post, What We Need: National Election Day Holiday, reader PF from Chicago writes in:

…[I] thought you’d might like to share that there’s a petition to make Election Day a National Holiday to help people step up and vote at Make Election Day a National Holiday!
Folks can register anonymously too if privacy is an issue.

Thanks, PF. It is interesting to note that in rate of citizens who don’t vote because of employment issues:

In 2000, over 20 percent of eligible non-voters — and even higher proportions of Asians and Latinos — did not vote due to scheduling conflicts or inconvenient voting procedures, according to the US Census. In response, some voting rights advocates say one obvious way to make voting easier would be to set aside a whole day to accommodate the task.

Voting rules we can’t believe in.