Today is Tuesday, November 6th – Election Day. Did you know:
- Election day is set for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November?
- In every even-numbered year, all seats in the House of Representatives are voted for?
- On every year evenly divisible by four, the President and Vice-President are voted for?
- That November was thought to be a good time for elections because, in our early agrarian society, the fall harvest would have been completed but the winter storms would not have hit yet?
- Tuesday was thought to be a good day for elections because it would allow people in rural parts of the country to begin travel on Monday, rather than Sunday (so traveling would not interfere with Sunday church services), to get to the voting location?
- Women were given the right to vote on June 5, 1919, with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment?
- Grover Cleveland was the only President to be elected, defeated, and then elected again – becoming the 22nd President from 1885-1889 and the 24th President from 1893-1897?
[tags]Election, Politics, Society, DYK[/tags]