I've read that the official reason was that they didn't want the election to fal on the beginning of the month because of all the work people businesses do around the first of the month in paying bills and closing accounts and things like that. This way the earliest the election can be is November 2nd, and people will presumably be more availible to vote then on November 1st.
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