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Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home. I'm Reggie Rizzou alongside Marcus Path. On today's episode,

we look at the history of why Election Day is on a Tuesday in November and how a seismic

signal could have caused a devastating volcano eruption in 2022. Plus on this day in history,

we look at Guy Fox in the Gunpowder Platt. That's all coming up on cool stuff.

Well, it's Election Day here in the United States, an event that of course occurs every four

years on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November. Now, if you think that's random,

you're not alone, which is why we thought we'd bring you this story explaining why election

day is today. And for that,

we turn to history.com. Americans first began the custom of weekday voting in 1845, when Congress

passed a federal law designating the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November as

election day. Before then, states were allowed to hold elections anytime they pleased within a

34-day period before the first Wednesday in December. But this system had a few crucial flaws.

Knowing the early voting results could affect turnout and sway opinion in states that held late

elections, and those same last-minute voters could potentially decide the outcome of the entire

election. Faced with these issues the outcome of the entire election.

Faced with these issues, Congress created the current election day in hopes of streamlining

the voting process.

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