Archive - Nov 2006
A Winter picture from the past
Submitted by hayes on Sat, 11/11/2006 - 02:28.
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A little Election Day History
Submitted by hayes on Tue, 11/07/2006 - 22:18.
Since it is Elections Day, I would like to give you some Election Day history.
Election Day is the Tuesday on or after November 2nd.
November was selected because the harvest work was done.
Tuesday was selected because many people had to travel the day before to reach the polling place. Since most people did not travel on Sunday for religious reasons, they did not want it to be on a Monday.
They did not want Election Day to fall on November 1st because it is All Saints Day.
They did not want Election Day to fall on the first of the month because many shop keepers did their books for the preceding month on the first.
So there are some quick facts about Election Day. Now I want to tell you a story and how I am connected to a Presidential election.