Start by making polling day a national/state holiday.
Then you don't have to work about swapping shifts out finding childcare.
You have the day off work, your kids are out of school. Take them to the polls and show them the Democratic process of voting.
My dad took me and my 3 sisters to vote with him every 4 years. And he told us how important it was. He also told me the first time I went behind the curtain "first look office all the people with a star by their name. They are there incumbent and we vote for them to stay. Then you look for the ones with an R by their name." And that life lesson has stuck with me.
Not in the sense that that's how I vote. But it helps me understand where party line voters are coming from. "That's just how we do it, son,"
Florida, too. I have been voting by absentee ballot for years now. We also have early voting so that people have more time and chances to fit voting into their schedule. I wish all states had those options in addition to requiring employers to work with their employees to make it easy for them to take time off to go to the polls.
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