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BeBro is offline BeBro
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Why is the US election on tuesday? Tired of ads?

Hm? Is it always weekdays? Can't remember the last time.....we always have our elections on the weekends.....

I'm sure that is an evil American custom.....
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It's always on Nov 2nd.
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quote:
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It's always on Nov 2nd.


No, it's always on the first Tuesday of November, which just happens to be November 2nd this time around.
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Suffering from ads?

Every Presidential election as far back as I can remmeber has been on Nov 2nd. This time it just happens to be a Tuesday.
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Hm? Is it always weekdays? Can't remember the last time.....we always have our elections on the weekends.....

I'm sure that is an evil American custom.....


Hmm, true, but we have to vote.
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Presidential elections are always held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. I don't know why.

Edit: Congressional elections are also always on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
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Tired of ads?

Why not?
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Does that mean that if the first Tuesday is November 1st that you'll have it on the 8th instead?

Weird.
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Yes I don't see a reason why it should be on weekends? I think this is perfectly just fine... I just can't see any reasons why not?
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Does that mean that if the first Tuesday is November 1st that you'll have it on the 8th instead?

Yup. Elections are never on November 1st, and they're always on a Tuesday.
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Nov. 7th, 2000 was the first time Bush was elected.
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Thx for the info

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Why not?


I just wondered about it.
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Ok, I was wrong.
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Every Presidential election as far back as I can remmeber has been on Nov 2nd. This time it just happens to be a Tuesday.

Guess who didn't pay attention in Civics

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Hm? Is it always weekdays? Can't remember the last time.....we always have our elections on the weekends.....

I'm sure that is an evil American custom.....


Why have it on a weekend? People tend to want to go away for the weekends. Much better to have the election on a weekday, that way you can take some time off work.

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Nov. 7th, 2000 was the first time Bush was elected.


Actually, Bush wasn't selected until Dec. 12.
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No.
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quote:


Actually, Bush wasn't selected until Dec. 12.


They allmost slipped it past the rest, good thing Boris is around.

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Ok, I was wrong.


Goes very well with your sig, if I may say so.

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that way you can take some time off work


Nobody that I know of gets off work to vote.
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You need better unions.

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Ideally, Election Day should be a national holiday.
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Nobody that I know of gets off work to vote.

And that's an ideal way of keeping the working class from voting. Conspiracy theory, perhaps. But I really, really doubt that people would accept an election on any other day than a sunday here. The social democrats are the ruling party, and their traditional base is the industrial working class.
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DanS, come to think of it I don't know many besides myself who gets off work to vote either. The voting places are usually open till late in the evening anyway
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Ideally, Election Day should be a national holiday.


I agree...

And Kropotkin... They couldn't make it Sunday for religious reasons... the hard core fundies would have a cow.

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The voting places are usually open till late in the evening anyway

I'll be voting when the polls open at 6:30. Not much risk of having to wait in line that way.
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And Kropotkin... They couldn't make it Sunday for religious reasons... the hard core fundies would have a cow.

If that's not enough reason to hold it on a sunday, I don't what is.

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Nobody that I know of gets off work to vote.


Which is the reason that our elections are on a Tuesday. It keeps the undesirables from voting, though our two-week early voting period effectively ended that. It was rather difficult for me to get into the library yesterday: huge line.
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I like to have it on Sundays when there is a lot less traffic, people are much more chilled, have time to think and are generally not in the stress-stress mood that they are in for the rest of the week.
That said I think it's a bad idea to hold it on an ordinary working day.

As Boris said, it should be a holiday!
 
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