{"id":3294,"date":"2020-11-03T17:21:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T22:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powerservicesgroup.com\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2020-11-03T17:32:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T22:32:50","slug":"election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powerservicesgroup.com\/2020\/11\/election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope everyone was able to get out and vote today.\u00a0 A little election day history for your reading enjoyment:<\/p>\n

Why a Tuesday in November? The answer stems from the agrarian makeup of 19th-century America. In the 1800s, most citizens worked as farmers and lived far from their polling place. Since people often traveled at least a day to vote, lawmakers needed to allow a two-day window for Election Day. Weekends were impractical, since most people spent Sundays in church, and Wednesday was market day for farmers.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, Tuesday was selected as the first and most convenient day of the week to hold elections. Farm culture also explains why Election Day always falls in November. Spring and early summer elections were thought to interfere with the planting season, and late summer and early fall elections overlapped with the harvest. That left the late fall month of November\u2014after the harvest was complete, but before the arrival of harsh winter weather\u2014as the best choice.<\/p>\n

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I hope everyone was able to get out and vote today.\u00a0 A little election day history for your reading enjoyment: Why a Tuesday in November? The answer stems from the agrarian makeup of 19th-century America. In the 1800s, most citizens worked as farmers and lived far from their polling place. Since people often traveled at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powerservicesgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powerservicesgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powerservicesgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerservicesgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerservicesgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerservicesgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerservicesgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powerservicesgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerservicesgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerservicesgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}