Election Day 2024 is sooner than you think. Among the Harris-Trump battleground states, North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin begin mailing out ballots in September.

The first federal Election Day was in 1845. That year, Congress passed a federal law designating the first Tuesday in November as Election Day, according to History.com. Before 1845, the federal ...

That means Monday wouldn't work as Election Day since it would require voters to travel on Sunday, which is the sabbath for Christians. Wednesday was typically market day, when farmers sold their ...