Fonseca e Silva Family

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Election Time


JUST WANTED TO LET EVERYONE THE FONSECA E SILVAS HAVE ALL VOTED. YES EVEN THE KIDS DID A MOCK ELECTION VOTE IN SCHOOL. It is a good thing we all have the same views and expectations for the new President.
Do you know why we vote on a Tuesday... in November?
The short answer: We used to be a nation of farmers.
The long answer: Congress chose November because the harvest was over and the weather wouldn't be bad enough to prevent people from traveling. As for Tuesday, people used to have to travel overnight to their polling location. (In 1845, horse was the preferred method of transport.) In an effort to avoid religious days of rest, Congress chose Tuesday, leaving Monday and Wednesday as travel days. Tuesday was voting (and horse-resting) day.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesting. And yet, it is snowing like a snowglobe here today. How's sunny AZ??