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Why do we vote on Tuesday? Well,
Posted: Nov 5, 2012
From Smithsonian.com: "The answer, it turns out, has a lot to do with buggies and farmers markets.
The Founding Fathers met at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, NPR explains, but at the end of the meeting they still had not resolved a number of questions about how to run an entire nation. One of those issues involved the timing of federal elections. As a quick fix, they decided to leave it to individual states to set their own voting days, which led to several decades of “electoral chaos,” with random elections held at all different times, all over the country.
In 1845, Congress decided to straighten things out. Monday was out, lawmakers reasoned, since people would have to travel to the polls in their buggies on Sunday, which wouldn’t sit well with church-goers. Wednesday wouldn’t work either, since mid-week usually meant market day for farmers—and most citizens at the time were farmers. Again, Thursday didn’t fit the bill because of the buggy-traveling time allocation (which would cut into market day). And Friday? Well, NPR doesn’t say, but who wants to deal with such a serious issue at the very end of the week?
So, here we are. Hope no one was expecting a better reason. :) Happy voting. Hope no one here needs to settle in all day to get the job done.
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