• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Some countries let you vote for 2-3 weeks, others it’s a sunday. Tusday was maybe the best a thousand years ago but who cares? Thanks for the interesting history lesson though!

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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      24 days ago

      Tusday was maybe the best a thousand years ago but who cares?

      Closer to two hundred years ago, since the law in question was passed in 1854. But the point was it’s that way for a reason, and that reason was a good reason at the time it was done. It seems so weird now because of social change that has since made it inconvenient.

      It can also be changed if Congress wanted to, as it’s just a regular law and not part of the Constitution or something else that would be harder to change.