The United States of America is built on the value of participatory government. Making Election Day a National Holiday would celebrate the American tradition of voting. Also, voting has become difficult for many workers as the process can be prohibitively time consuming. Making Election Day a federal holiday, as it is in some other democratic nations, would provide more people better opportunity to vote.
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