Sanders Calls for Voting Holiday to ‘Fix’ Failed Democracy
Responding to the “disgraceful” voter turnout for last week’s midterm election—just 36.6 percent—Senator Bernie Sanders (Vt.) argued on Monday that the way to “fix” American democracy is for Election Day to be established as a national holiday. “Can we be satisfied with a ‘democracy’ when more than 60% of people don’t vote and some 80% of young people and low-income Americans don’t either?” Sanders wrote in a Guardian op-ed published Monday. The column follows Sanders’ announcement late last week that he will… Read more…
