Well, Saturday voting would mean the farmers had to come to town twice in one week. Needing to allow allow a day on either side for travel or walk miles in the dark*. Tuesday or Thursday would be the days adjacent to market days and so require staying an extra night in town but not two different trips. I doubt that consideration for the Jewish sabbath came into it.
I’m pretty sure that November elections happen because most harvest work should be done. Some parts of the original states get snow in November, so it’s the start of when traveling was really miserable.
*Bearing in mind that it gets dark earlier in the northern US in November.
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I’m pretty sure that November elections happen because most harvest work should be done. Some parts of the original states get snow in November, so it’s the start of when traveling was really miserable.
*Bearing in mind that it gets dark earlier in the northern US in November.