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(5,770 posts)It is statutorily set as "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November" equalling "the first Tuesday after November 1"
By 1792, federal law permitted each state to choose Presidential electors any time within a 34-day period before the first Wednesday in December.
Development of the Morse electric telegraph, funded by Congress in 1843 and successfully tested in 1844, was a technological change that clearly augured an imminent future of instant communication nationwide. To prevent information from one state from influencing Presidential electoral outcomes in another, Congress responded in 1845 by mandating a uniform national date for choosing Presidential electors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_(United_States)