Why do we vote on Tuesdays? The history of voting explained.

Noted: Barry Burden is a professor in the Political Science department at UW-Madison; he said we vote on Tuesdays because of our nation’s roots as farmers. “That meant there were days of the week when crops needed to be delivered to market,” he said. “That ways typically in the middle of the week. Most people were going to church on Sunday and that was a big commitment, and so that just left a couple of days in between.”