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| Thread ID: 94333 | 2008-10-25 03:37:00 | Why US elections are normally held around November? | Renmoo (66) | PC World Chat |
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| 714627 | 2008-10-25 03:37:00 | Out of curiosity, why? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 714628 | 2008-10-25 03:44:00 | Because of this maybe ? ( . wikipedia . org/wiki/Election_Day_" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org(United_States)) An election date in November was seen as useful because the harvest would have been completed (important in an agrarian society) and the winter storms would not yet have begun in earnest (a plus in the days before paved roads and snowplows) . However, the problems borne of this arrangement were obvious and were intensified by improved communications via train and telegraph: the states that voted later could swell, diminish, or be influenced by a candidate's victories in the states that voted earlier . In close elections, the states that voted last might well determine the outcome . [3] A uniform date for choosing presidential Electors was instituted by the Congress in 1845 . [4] 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 national 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 Electoral College met) would be more than 34 days, in violation of the existing Electoral College law . So, the bill was amended to move the national date for choosing presidential Electors forward to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, a date scheme already used in the state of New York . [6] As for the day of the week chosen, in 1845, the United States was an agrarian society . Most people traveled by horse and buggy . Farmers needed a day to get to the county seat, a day to vote, and a day to get back, without interfering with the Sabbath . So that left Tuesday and Wednesday, but Wednesday was market day . So, Tuesday it was |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 714629 | 2008-10-25 03:45:00 | By federal law since 1792, the U.S. Congress permitted the states to conduct their presidential elections (or otherwise to choose their Electors) any time in a 34-day period before the first Wednesday of December, which was the day set for the meeting of the Electors of the U.S. president and vice-president (the Electoral College), in their respective states. An election date in November was seen as useful because the harvest would have been completed (important in an agrarian society) and the winter storms would not yet have begun in earnest (a plus in the days before paved roads and snowplows). However, the problems borne of this arrangement were obvious and were intensified by improved communications via train and telegraph: the states that voted later could swell, diminish, or be influenced by a candidate's victories in the states that voted earlier. In close elections, the states that voted last might well determine the outcome. A uniform date for choosing presidential Electors was instituted by the Congress in 1845. Many theories have been advanced as to why the Congress settled on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The actual reasons, as shown in records of Congressional debate on the bill in December 1844, were fairly prosaic. The bill initially set the national 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 Electoral College met) would be more than 34 days, in violation of the existing Electoral College law. So, the bill was amended to move the national date for choosing presidential Electors forward to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, a date scheme already used in the state of New York. As for the day of the week chosen, in 1845, the United States was an agrarian society. Most people traveled by horse and buggy. Farmers needed a day to get to the county seat, a day to vote, and a day to get back, without interfering with the Sabbath. So that left Tuesday and Wednesday, but Wednesday was market day. So, Tuesday it was. See? It's simple. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 714630 | 2008-10-25 03:47:00 | Somebody knows Wiki too! | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 714631 | 2008-10-25 05:16:00 | I was hoping you could say it out from the top of your head :p | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 714632 | 2008-10-25 05:48:00 | Sorry.... I only live here..don't vote. I like the history of the place..and the world actually....just don't participate in secular governmental. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 714633 | 2008-10-25 06:06:00 | I only live here..don't vote.Why don't you want to have a say in how your country is run? :confused: | Jen (38) | ||
| 714634 | 2008-10-25 08:48:00 | Voting just encourages the politicians.... | johcar (6283) | ||
| 714635 | 2008-10-26 01:41:00 | Why don't you want to have a say in how your country is run? :confused: They give you the job of Mod, and you wonder why I don't vote? Just yanking your chain as I think you know where I stand anyway . . . but I'll comment . It's not the lesser of two weevils at present . . if it ever was . Nobody has a say anyway . . . it's all set in concrete and there's nothing anyone can do to change things . Mostly . . . everyone here is in "survival mode" right now too . Obama is not a Free Mason, so I don't know what political pull he can have . . . . or even how he can be elected in an all-Mason political arena . I think he's a political fall-guy and will either have something happen to him . . . or he'll be castrated in office for his non good-ol-boyism . . . . . and lack of clout . It's all smoke and mirrors anyway . So I really can't see giving credence to something that has a foregone conclusive program of deceit and proprietorial attitude . Dems and Republicans are all the same . . . just liars, cheats and slimeballs . . . and that's being kind . Even the polls indicate the general disgust with the whole political system and it's adherents and followers . No . . I voted alright . . but in a whole different election . . . many years ago . |
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