Why is the election on a Tuesday? Seems totally stupid to me. Why is it so & why isn't it moved to a weekend?

Election Day

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That is weak. An election on Tuesday is excellent if you want to eliminate the poorest voters from showing up. Bussing in to a polling station on their way to their second job... good luck.

Only in America (quite possibly literally!)

Early voting is at least possible in "some" states.

We have early voting. It lasts for two weeks.
In all, most voters do not vote.

We have local elections on the second Saturday in May.
Turnout is worse than the November election.

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

voting has already started here. we can do early voting any time from now til the election

Since there were no buses when Tuesday was established as election day, your argument is dismissed out of hand.

Besides, most poor folks are too damned lazy to get off their backsides to even vote. Even then, they are just stupid sheeple who vote based on those little 10-second soundbites the media feeds them.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Things change. Well, some things.

You have to have a compelling argument to change the system. As the system fosters low participation, which protects incumbency, change such as this would be unlikely short of revolution.

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

Improving democratic outcomes - I think that is a compelling argument.

Ah, so wealth correlates with intelligence. You have a slim definition of success if this is so.

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