The Constitution does not say when any election is to take place.
Actually:
Article II
Section 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Chapter 1. Presidential Elections and Vacancies
Return to 3 USC Ch. 1, Table of Contents
§ 1. The electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed, in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President.
Failure to make choice on prescribed day
§ 2. Whenever any State has held an election for the purpose of choosing electors, and has failed to make a choice on the day prescribed by law, the electors may be appointed on a subsequent day in such a manner as the legislature of such State may direct.
A uniform date for choosing presidential electors was instituted by the Congress in 1845
In 1845, the United States was largely an agrarian society. Farmers often needed a full day to travel by horse drawn vehicles to the county seat to vote. Tuesday was established as election day because it did not interfere with the Biblical Sabbath or with market day, which was on Wednesday in many towns.
“The Constitution does not say when any election is to take place.”
Yup it is in the US Code, not the Constitution.
Can’t post the image of the act but here is the record:
http://memory.loc.gov/ll/llsl/005/0700/07590721.tif
Have your ever tried actually reading the Constitution?