Most countries vote on a weekday. New Zealand votes on a Saturday. There's a reason, and it's older than you'd think.
Quick one. Why do we vote on a Saturday?
In a lot of countries, election day is a Tuesday or a Wednesday. America does Tuesdays. The UK does Thursdays. They make people queue before or after work, which is a whole headache.
New Zealand picked Saturday way back in the late 1800s. The thinking was: most people work Monday to Friday, so a weekday election means a lot of working people can't vote, which means Parliament ends up only representing the people who had time. Saturday meant farmers, workers, basically everyone, could get to a polling place.
(It also wasn't Sunday, because Sunday was church day and nobody wanted to fight about that.)
So Saturday it was. And it's stayed Saturday ever since, with one bonus modern twist: you can vote early, in the two weeks before. That's how a lot of people vote now, including most of my family. Election Saturday itself is more like the deadline than the only day.
The reason this is actually interesting: a lot of countries are arguing right now about whether voting should be easier - early voting, weekend voting, postal voting, online voting. New Zealand basically solved one piece of that 130 years ago by accident, just by picking the right day.
Sometimes the boring rules are the ones doing the most work.