1 Million Workers Getting Time to Vote Thanks to Company Pledges

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Companies pledging to give workers paid time off to vote has helped a million workers.

Nearly 900 companies are giving employees paid time off to vote this year, making it much easier for 1 million Americans to cast their ballots ... TMZ has learned.

If you haven't noticed, the push for voter turnout has been a big deal for the 2020 election, and ElectionDay.org is one of the groups at the forefront of that effort. Since 2018, its been hitting up companies, trying to get them to pledge paid voting time for workers. The org says the goal is not making people choose between their Constitutional right and their paycheck.

They accomplished that mission at 890 businesses and institutions, which signed up to make voter's leave part of their company policies. We're told that's a huge jump from 150 companies 2 years ago when the program launched.

 

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It’s just an excuse to leave work. Polls were opened for in person voting over the weekend but you wanna take off on a Monday or Tuesday to vote? If it’s really that important to you to vote, you should have been in the booth on Saturday/Sunday.

It should be made a national holiday or just on a weekend 🤷🏽‍♀️

I thought they legally had to give you a chance to vote before the polls close

Needs to be a holiday

pay me for my time,to go vote fuck all dat

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