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Mel Gibson is demanding an amendment to make Election Day a national holiday, requiring in-person paper ballots, ID checks, and voting limited to registered U.S. citizens. He’s saying out loud what millions of Americans already know: the system is broken because the door is wide open for abuse. We’ve seen it play out time and time again. Mysterious absentee ballots show up after polls close. Boxes of ballots are “found” in the middle of the night. Signatures don’t match, but the votes are still counted. Ballots are mailed to people who moved away years ago, or worse, to people who are no longer alive. And once those ballots are floating around, anyone can scoop them up, fill them out, and drop them in bulk. That’s not democracy—it’s organized chaos. Absentee ballots were supposed to be a rare exception, used by deployed soldiers or Americans who physically couldn’t make it to the polls. Instead, they’ve become the default in many places, creating an untraceable shadow system where chain of custody is impossible to guarantee. Election officials love to say “fraud is rare,” but it only takes a handful of stuffed ballots to swing a local race… and once people lose trust, the damage is far worse than the numbers. When you vote in person with ID, the process is simple, visible, and secure. There’s no mystery about who filled out the ballot, no last-minute dumps, no shady operatives collecting votes from nursing homes or apartment complexes. It’s you, your ID, your paper ballot, and your country. That’s the way it was designed, and that’s the way it should be. Mel Gibson is right: if America truly wants honest elections, we need to return to the basics. A single national holiday, every citizen casting one paper ballot in person, counted transparently. No games, no gimmicks, no excuses. That’s the only way to restore faith in the system. Do you agree with Mel Gibson’s plan?