Journal Journal: Giving People Time to Vote on Election Day
TimetoVote.net gives folks voter leave laws for the USA. Important in this upcoming election because according to the US Census Bureau the #1 reason why registered voters did not make it to the polls for the last two elections was because they could not get time off from work. For example, the excerpt below is from the Washington Post, Monday, August 16, about a woman earning $9 per hour as a security guard. It takes her almost two hours to get to work on public transport in DC -- a city with