Is there any chance of getting election day changed, maybe into spring/summer, or make it election week so weather delays can be worked in?
It would also be nice for the federal government to have more authority over federal elections.
It already has pretty broad powers over Congressional ones. The Constitution gives Congress the power to "at any time" alter State regulations iro the time place and manner of choosing Senators and Representatives. So, to use a topical example, it could certainly legislate against gerrymandering - if it wanted to.
Its powers over Presidential elections are more limited, but even there it can set the election date by legislation, and iirc did so in 1845. November was chosen because, in a nation still largely agricultural, that date meant that it would not interfere with the harvest.
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