Talk:Thursday
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I reverted "and United States" because as I understand it (I'm not American myself), U.S. Federal elections (and many state and local elections) are held on Tuesdays, particularly the "Tuesday after the first Monday in November". See http://www.fec.gov/pages/faqvdayeprocedures.htm .
If this is wrong, feel free to put it back.
More on what days various countries vote on would be good.
- I have changed In the United Kingdom, elections are traditionally held on Thursdays. This was to ensure a high turnout, as people would have spent their previous weeks wages, paid the previous Friday as this "explanation" has to me the ring of an urban myth (unless anyone can come up with evidence from the 1930s of this consideration being genuinely taken into account by Prime Ministers -- who choose the date).
- Ontario, by the way, is an example of a territory which does fix Thursday as election day by statute
- The great majority of European countries (the Netherlands being a notable exception) vote on a Sunday. - Picapica 21:31, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
--rbrwr
No, you're right... I just blanked.. and I'm from the US.. I was thinking to myself "Oh, we have them on Tuesdays too!"... forgetting that I was looking at an article on Thursday. :) --Dante Alighieri 22:54 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)
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Anyone know why Thursday is R on a MTWRF setup of the week?
The only thing I could find was from Wikipedia's article on the letter R: "In calendars, R is often used as an abbreviation for Thursday instead of T, to avoid confusion with Tuesday" Blorg 13:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
