Why is the first Tuesday in November Election Day?

 


In 1845, Congress needed to pick a time for Americans to vote. It was a farming society, so it had to be after the harvest but before the weather got bad. That made early November the obvious choice.

People traveled by horse and buggy. Farmers nee...



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