Election Day in the US is set as "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November" or "the first Tuesday after November 1."

These two states allow those convicted of felonies to vote even while they serve their terms. 31 other states restore this right once the felon has completed the sentance.

While the average turnout if 60%, it has been lower since 1972.

The Nineteenth Amendment was adopted in 1920, giving women the right to vote, and since 1964, more women voters have gone to the polls than male voters during presidential election years!

Ford is the only person to have served as both vice president and president without being elected to either office by the Electoral College.

The legal voting age across the United States was once 21 but in 1943, Georgia became the first state to lower the legal voting age to 18. This became an official part of the U.S. Constitution.

He was only 42 years old, and as William McKinley’s vice president, became president when McKinley was assassinated.