Polling data on potential election reforms

Cal Tech/MIT has published a report on the public support, or lack thereof, of various election reforms.  You can read the full report here.  Here is the important paragraph:

“We find that 57.5% of respondents support making Election Day a holiday but only 41.8% support the notion of moving Election Day to a weekend. The final two election reforms are received with the least enthusiasm. Absentee voting over the Internet was supported by roughly a third of the sample (30.1%), and voting by mail received even less support, 14.7%.”

One wonders what the cross tabs would be on the Election Day as a national holiday would be if public sector workers were not part of the sample.  Most businesses would not close on a national election day, but governments would.  This, of course, would also have a impact on election results with public sector employees getting a day off and most private sector employees still having to go to work in places like hospitals, factories, diners and gas stations.  But one thing is for sure, voting by mail is a dead letter, and internet voting gets hardly any more support.