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'cause apparently you guys elect a king every 4 years, with the power to completely change the course of your country, so it's only right you honour him accordingly

Or simply vote on the Sundays...

I agree, giving people the day off to encourage voting makes more sense than honoring unnamed presidents (Washington and Lincoln if you're too young to remember). Repubs overall won't go for this because they know more voting is bad for them. Wacky, huh?

Fun fact! The official name for that holiday is Washington's Birthday.

I don't know the story behind its label of President's Day but on the federal reserve's website it shows:
"Washington's Birthday (President's Day)"

Bcs the few are important & worshipped, the many are expendable and barely deserving of human-level acknowledgment.

/s
(or at least I wish it was sarcasm)

We have it in Malaysia if the polling date is in weekdays, and we usually have general election on Saturday so most people have no reason not to vote. And even then, we have law that said employer cannot stop employees from going to vote and this is heavily enforced. Though our election is only one day, and once the polling station close, anything or anyone that arrive afterward is not counted

Early voting is a better solution to the problem than making it a day off, though.

I do, try living in a blue state.

I mean in my state I now have like 8 election days off.