Lawmakers have introduced a bill that would make Election Day a state holiday in California. The new holiday would take the place of Presidents Day in even-numbered years. Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Silicon Valley), who recently introduced the legislation at the State Assembly’s Committee on Elections, called Assembly Bill 53 (AB 53) “a bipartisan effort” designed to “expand access to voting in the state.” Public employee labor unions and student groups supported the bill, while small business owners and the Election Integrity Project, California (EIPCa), a nonpartisan watchdog group, opposed it. Ruth Weiss, EIPCa’s director of legislative oversight, said making Election Day a holiday is “completely unnecessary, because in reality there is no Election Day anymore.” “There is absolutely no reason to designate what is now simply the voting deadline,” Weiss told The Epoch Times. Colleen Britton, a spokesperson for EIPCa, said AB 53 is unnecessary because voting regulations have already …