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There's no need to figure. There's been a long running campaign in the US to make election day a holiday, and it has been resisted by the Republican party precisely because it makes voting easier for people they don't want it to be easier for.
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yeah, that's also been proposed and shot down etc. The specific mechanism of making it easier doesn't matter. There's plenty of ideas. The point is some don't want to make it easier.