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First Tuesday after the first Monday

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This year, that little saying regarding our national election day actually comes into play since October 31 happens to fall on a Monday. Therefore the election will not be held until the 8th, the last possible day allowed by law. Anyone ever wonder why we picked the first Tuesday after the first Monday as our official election day?

Apparently this all went into affect pretty early on, but it was not constitutionally mandated.

A uniform date for choosing presidential electors was instituted by the Congress in 1845.[1] Many theories have been advanced as to why the Congress settled on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.[5] The actual reasons, as shown in records of Congressional debate on the bill in December 1844, were fairly prosaic. The bill initially set the day for choosing presidential electors on "the first Tuesday in November," in years divisible by four (1848, 1852, etc.). But it was pointed out that in some years the period between the first Tuesday in November and the first Wednesday in December (when the electors are required to meet in their state capitals to vote) would be more than 34 days, in violation of the existing Electoral College law. So, the bill was reworded to move the date for choosing presidential electors to the Tuesday after the first Monday in November,

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My wife just said I'm weird for noticing this, by the way.
 
calamity said:
This year, that little saying regarding our national election day actually comes into play since October 31 happens to fall on a Monday. Therefore the election will not be held until the 8th, the last possible day allowed by law. Anyone ever wonder why we picked the first Tuesday after the first Monday as our official election day?

Apparently this all went into affect pretty early on, but it was not constitutionally mandated.




My wife just said I'm weird for noticing this, by the way.
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Your wife is right. :)
 
At least it was not based on some Neil Young album title. ;)

 
calamity said:
This year, that little saying regarding our national election day actually comes into play since October 31 happens to fall on a Monday. Therefore the election will not be held until the 8th, the last possible day allowed by law. Anyone ever wonder why we picked the first Tuesday after the first Monday as our official election day?

Apparently this all went into affect pretty early on, but it was not constitutionally mandated.




My wife just said I'm weird for noticing this, by the way.
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Greetings, Calamity. :2wave:

Thanks for posting this info. :thumbs: I didn't know the answer, so once again, thanks to people like you on DP, I have learned something new today!
 
calamity said:
This year, that little saying regarding our national election day actually comes into play since October 31 happens to fall on a Monday. Therefore the election will not be held until the 8th, the last possible day allowed by law. Anyone ever wonder why we picked the first Tuesday after the first Monday as our official election day?

Apparently this all went into affect pretty early on, but it was not constitutionally mandated.




My wife just said I'm weird for noticing this, by the way.
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Your wife is correct. But, I'm weird that way as well, so...
 
calamity said:
This year, that little saying regarding our national election day actually comes into play since October 31 happens to fall on a Monday. Therefore the election will not be held until the 8th, the last possible day allowed by law. Anyone ever wonder why we picked the first Tuesday after the first Monday as our official election day?

Apparently this all went into affect pretty early on, but it was not constitutionally mandated.




My wife just said I'm weird for noticing this, by the way.
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TheGoverness said:
Your wife is right. :)
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Beaudreaux said:
Your wife is correct. But, I'm weird that way as well, so...
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No she's not! (correct)

You have intellectual curiosity, and a desire to understand the world around you - and that's a *good* thing!

Thanks for this little tid-bit of info! :thumbs:
 
Chomsky said:
No she's not! (correct)

You have intellectual curiosity, and a desire to understand the world around you - and that's a *good* thing!

Thanks for this little tid-bit of info! :thumbs:
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Hey, I didn't mean anything by it.

I'm weird too.
 
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