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Re:Remind HN: Vote by pierrefar on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @08:45AM (#1860180)
It's for historic reasons tied to the US being a farming society:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_%28United_States%2...

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepoliticalsystem/a/whenwevot...

I point this out to anyone who complains about how archaic some things in the UK or Europe appear to be.

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