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Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by azernik on Sunday September 11, 2016 @06:07AM (#12472708)
This was actually the original intention of the Tuesday voting day - if farmers were at church on Sunday, and at market on Wednesday, they could only reliably get to their polling place on Tuesday. This reasoning, clearly, does not translate well to a modern urban economy.

The US is in many ways strangely traditional.

EDIT: Replaced folk origin with actual researched origin.

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Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by Amezarak on Sunday September 11, 2016 @10:22AM (#12473481)
There are tens of millions of people [1] who work on Sundays - something that has occurred as we moved into a 'modern urban economy'. I'm not convinced that moving it to a weekend would make any noticeable difference in the numbers. The weekend is no longer 'special' except mostly for white collar professionals.

[1] I couldn't find any actual numbers so I was just looking up retail and restaurant industry jobs on the BLS website, but WiseGeek claims (without a reference) that the BLS says 35% of Americans work weekends.

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