Q: Why Tuesday?A: Each state had a different election day until Morse demonstrated the telegraph to Congress 5/24/1844. Congress unified the election day. Since it took so long to get to the county seat they made it on a Tuesday. Then nobody would be traveling on a Christian or Jewish Sabbath. There is a plaque of Morse's historic moment in Capitol. Why no majority voting? 49 states do not require majority in general election for local and state races. Majority by IRV for solution.