www.addictinginfo.org/2014/02/14/election-day-national-holiday-petition/
"That’s right people: We vote when we vote because our ancestors had to travel on horseback after picking their crops but before church and winter. Why is it still this way? Because for some reason, Congress sees a day in the middle of the week, when lower and middle class people have to work, as a completely legitimate day to ask them to vote."