Elections

Four reasons elections are held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November are one congress needed to settle on a day for the country to vote in presidential  and congressional elections. Back then most Americans were farmers. The large cities of today were still many years away. Farmers had been busy during the spring and summer months. By, November  most crops had been harvested. Also the weather was still nice enough in November to allow farmers to travel to town to vote. So, that is why they picked the month November to vote in. To allow people to go to church on Sunday congress  figured holding election on Tuesday  so people could travel on Monday and make it home by Wednesday.  They wanted to make sure that voting never took place on November 1
since it is a Holy Day of Obligation. I do not think we should change it because it has been an tradition for so long. 

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