Before Election Day
Learn · Discuss · Prepare
Research candidates and ballot questions, understand the offices being decided, use reliable election information, and make a voting plan.
A SUPREME CITIZENS CIVIC INITIATIVE
Election Day Belongs to the People.
We make time for the occasions we value. What if America also made Election Day a national civic tradition—shared with family, friends, neighbors, and the next generation?
WE MAKE TIME FOR WHAT WE VALUE
What if we celebrated citizenship together?
We gather for Thanksgiving. We celebrate Independence Day with family and friends. We honor sacrifice on Memorial Day and service on Veterans Day. Religious, cultural, and family holidays become meaningful because we do more than recognize them on a calendar—we participate in them together.
Citizenship deserves a tradition of its own.
Election Day can be an opportunity for Americans to celebrate participation in self-government without celebrating a political party, candidate, ideology, or electoral outcome. We do not have to vote alike to participate together.
THE CIVIC CYCLE
Election Day is the destination—not the beginning.
On or Before Election Day
Participate · Vote
Use the lawful voting method available to you. Celebrate first-time voters, thank election workers, and encourage eligible family and friends to participate.
After Election Day
Stay Informed · Stay Engaged
Follow results and certification, learn who represents you, communicate with officials, attend public meetings, serve your community, and prepare for the next election.
CONTINUE THE CIVIC JOURNEY
Election Day Is a Milestone, Not the End of Citizenship.
The Election Participation Pathway connects preparation before voting with lawful participation, certification, representation, deliberation, and continuing public accountability.
Before Election DayLearn, verify official information, compare choices, discuss issues, and make a voting plan.
On or Before Election DayParticipate lawfully, respect independent choices, and use authoritative election information.
After Election DayFollow counting, certification, lawful challenges, transitions, and the representatives chosen by voters.
Between ElectionsEngage representatives, deliberate with fellow citizens, monitor government, seek accountability, and prepare to participate again.
Learn → Prepare → Participate → Follow the Process → Engage → Deliberate → Hold Accountable
OUR FAMILY PARTICIPATES
Create an Election Day family tradition.
Election Day Breakfast
Begin the day together and talk about why participation matters.
First Vote Celebration
Recognize a family member casting a ballot for the first time.
Vote Together
When practical, family members, couples, friends, or neighbors can make participation a shared activity.
Ask the Elders
Invite grandparents and older relatives to share memories of their first vote and elections they remember.
Teach the Next Generation
Explain elections, the privacy of the ballot, respectful disagreement, and the responsibility future voters will inherit.
Election Night Dinner
Gather after voting. Follow the results together and remember that relationships and shared citizenship continue even when political choices differ.
THE NATIONAL CIVIC HOLIDAY PROPOSAL
Recognize the federal general Election Day as a legal public holiday.
The Supreme Citizens Charter proposes adding the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in each even-numbered year to the legal public holidays recognized in 5 U.S.C. § 6103.
Model Legislative Framework
Short title: Election Day National Civic Holiday Act.
Core amendment: Amend 5 U.S.C. § 6103(a) to add: “Election Day, the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in each even-numbered year.”
Civic purpose: Encourage informed participation, civic education, intergenerational traditions, recognition of election workers, and continuing engagement after elections.
Nonpartisan safeguard: Official observances should promote citizenship and participation, not endorse or oppose a candidate, party, ideology, or electoral outcome.
Essential services: Recognition of a federal holiday does not eliminate the need for healthcare, public safety, transportation, emergency response, national security, utilities, election administration, and other continuous services.
Voting methods: The proposal does not express a preference against lawful early, absentee, or mail voting. The civic tradition celebrates participation regardless of the lawful method used.
A federal legal public holiday directly governs federal holiday observance; it does not by itself guarantee that every private-sector employee will receive the day off. State election laws and voting options vary.
PUBLIC DECLARATION
We make time for what we value.
We celebrate our families. We celebrate our traditions. We celebrate our history. We celebrate independence. We honor sacrifice. We celebrate the people we love.
Let us also celebrate our role as citizens.
We envision an Election Day when families make voting plans together, first-time voters are celebrated, grandparents share their voting stories, parents teach children about representative government, friends encourage friends to participate, and Americans gather knowing that—even when we disagree—we participated together.
Election Day does not belong to a political party. Election Day belongs to the people.
OFFICIAL VOTER INFORMATION
Make your plan using official sources.
Voting rules, registration deadlines, identification requirements, early-voting options, and polling locations vary by state and locality. Use official election authorities for current information.
Our Family Participates.
Our Community Participates.
We Vote.
Learn before Election Day. Participate on or before Election Day. Remain engaged afterward.