Bernie Sanders has a solution to low voter turnout.
Data shows approximately a third of Americans voted in Tuesday’s midterm elections, to the frustration of many, and thus the Independent Senator from Vermont believes Election Day should become a national holiday.
A bill proposed by Sanders would designate “Democracy Day” as a national holiday in order to make it easier for Americans to vote, his office announced Friday.
“We should not be satisfied with a ‘democracy’ in which more than 60 percent of our people don’t vote and some 80 percent of young people and low-income Americans fail to vote,” he said in a statement.
Whether this could ever be a viable option or not is yet to be determined, but it could be a way for Sanders to raise both his visibility and popularity ahead of a potential run for president in 2016.
A RealClearPolitics average of polls places Sanders fifth amongst potential Democrat candidates, more than 60 points behind frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
