local elections (not the federal election) a national holiday. Democracy only works best in small communities. It never work well at federal level of big country in long run.
At local level, average voters have more knowledge about the issues they care about and the virtue/quality of the leaders they choose. Even voters made the mistakes, these mistake are less costly at the local level. Making local election a national holiday can bring local voters together to generate a sense of community. I strongly support average voters participating more in local elections.
At top of federal level, the issues are too complex to average voters, which need a good understanding of history, science, economics, foreign affairs/geopolitics...to make your judgement. But our current election have federal election and (most) local elections on same day. With MSM help, it changes the average voters' focus from local election which should be their primary concern to federal election which average voters are pretty ignorant about.