Dwight from 'The Office': Make Election Day a National Holiday

News of celebrities making entertaining, attention-grabbing pleas to the public (especially the younger demographic) to get out and vote is nothing new. Wh0 could forget previous star-backed campaigns like MTV’s Rock the Vote, P. Diddy‘s mildly threatening Vote or Die or Leonardo DiCaprio‘s “whatever, man” Vote 4 Stuff? Now, Rainn Wilson (that’s “Dwight” to fans of The Office), has offered his services to a campaign that isn’t striving to make voting cool (or pitch it as an alternative to death), but hopes to get more Americans to cast ballots by making the whole process into less of a “pain in the ass.”

How, you ask? By turning Election Day into a national holiday so that people who spend their days slaving away for, say, a paper company wouldn’t have to cram voting into an already-busy day packed with workplace priorities.

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