Mashable Wants Election Day to Be a Holiday

Get out the vote, and also, make sure people have the ability to do so.

We take a break from reporting on editorials endorsing Hillary Clinton to give you this editorial from Mashable endorsing a holiday for Election Day.

“For a large swath of the American population, voting is as much an inconvenience as it is a right,” write the editors. They’re not talking about inconvenience in the sense of some unpleasant weather, a walk to your local precinct and a bit of a wait. They’re referring to the inconvenience that comes from deciding between exercising a fundamental American right and losing wages on an already spare hourly-wage-based paycheck.

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