Vote

I have felt for a long time that election day in the US (by law, the first Tuesday after November 1) should be a national holiday. In some states, like Colorado, we now have an excellent mail in ballot system , but many people still physically show up at the polls to vote. The idea of voter suppression has never made sense to me, ever since I learned about the constitution and amendments 15, 19, 24, and 26 in elementary school civics class. I just went on Wikipedia and reviewed the timeline of voting rights in the United States , which reminded me of the awesomeness of the book Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History . ...