My understanding is that Tuesday voting goes back to the days when many voters lived hours from where they could vote. Traveling on the Sabbath wasn’t something good Christians would do. Tuesday meant people could travel Monday and then stay for Wednesday market.
A lot of our voting protocols, including the Electoral College, are relics of times when traveling and communication took a very long time. Used to be a November election with people taking office in March. We only went to January in the 30s after FDR.
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A lot of our voting protocols, including the Electoral College, are relics of times when traveling and communication took a very long time. Used to be a November election with people taking office in March. We only went to January in the 30s after FDR.