Why we vote in Nov., and why most are on Tuesdays.
An election date in November was seen as convenient because the harvest would have been completed (important in an agrarian society) and the winter-like storms would not yet have begun in earnest (especially an advantage in the days before paved roads and snowplows). However, in this arrangement the states that voted later could be influenced by a candidate's victories in the states that voted earlier, a problem later exacerbated by improved communications via train and telegraph.
In 1845, the United States was largely an agrarian society. Farmers often needed a full day to travel by horse-drawn vehicles to the county seat to vote. Tuesday was established as election day because it did not interfere with the Biblical Sabbath or with market day, which was on Wednesday in many towns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_(United_States)
I didn't know this. I thought it was trivially interesting. A rather efficient choice for its time. At best, merely benign in the here and now; I'd just as soon give up July 4th or some other feel-good, red, white & blue throwaway napkins day for a national voting holiday.
Now back to your regularly scheduled "Here's Why Your Vote for Candidate A Means Your A Nazi and Eat Deep Dish Baby Humans For Breakfast posts...
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