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[danuv]

Kids dragged out into the rain so that I can vote, check. Why can't they run schools and elections at the same time? Argh.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

I'm still not clear on why election day is a Tuesday. Don't they want people to vote? Don't answer that.

Election day in Australia is always a Saturday though not always the same one as we have a more variable election schedule. And bosses can get in a lot of trouble if they don't let workers out to vote.

[danuv.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia says,

"This rule was instituted by the U.S. Congress in 1845, and the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November was chosen to keep the election day from falling on November 1, All Saints' Day, a Holy Day of Obligation for Roman Catholics. Tuesday was chosen to allow voters one day to travel to their polling place, as most residents at the time could not travel on Sunday because of church. The month of November was chosen because it was after the crops were harvested."


Right.

[brododaktula.livejournal.com]

That is strange. All the schools seem to be open here, I think even the ones that are polling places. I know now there are a lot more restrictions on who can be in schools (unlike in my day when voters just traipsed down the hallway to vote in the gym while we were in class in elementary school) but having to vote with kids home does sound really inconvenient.

[danuv.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's a state to state thing. I seem to remember people voting at my elementary school too.

[gwinna.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the voting! Good job! :) And it's awesome that you brought your kids along to participate (ie: whine) ;)

[danuv.livejournal.com]

They behaved pretty well. Isadora did make up a song about voting being boring on the way home but that was about it. :)

[gwinna.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe