Is It Ballot Day Today?
It's Ballot day on the 24th of August.
The most recent detection of references to Ballot Day was 3 years, 5 months ago.
There were many celebrations relating to national holdiays written about on social media that our algorithms picked up on the 24th of August. In total we detected 40 total unique days being shared such as Waffle Day which had 1,522 people talking about it, or Flag Day having 226 tweets.
How Is The Date For Ballot Day Calculated?
The day shown for 'National Ballot Day' is based off how much chitter-chatter and buzz there was on Aug. 24, 2019 across social media making references to 'Ballot Day'. Our algorithms examine all of the references to National Days across social media and updates whatnationaldayisit.com hourly, with our homepage displaying the current national day, including others such as: Dog, Ballot or Knife Day. This crowdsourcing of data method to assess the National Ballot Day date is used as opposed to being connected with any Government sacntioned lists :D Hurrah for democracy by concensus!
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Can I Register Ballot Day?
We don't have an international authority or governmental remit to declare any officially celebrated "national Ballot day". We only aim to programatically reflect what 'National Day' it is based of what The Internet Says It Is. We believe this is much more fun as it reflects the nature of how the most amusing / interesting national days are often created organically and grow based off popular social trends and sharing, as such we don't add new days to our database unless they are organically observed on social media.
Is it National Ballot Day Everywhere?
Yes? No.. Sort of | Maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What's really intersting is how whilst some National Days like National Daughters Day are seemingly celebrated internationally irrespective of geography, some very popular days (That often become the No. 1 National Day on our homepage) are in fact locally very specific and are offical holidays celebrated on a Country's national calendar. Take National Rambutan Day for instance, Rambutan is a popular Souteast Asian fruit and not seen so much in the UK, Europe or the USA. Some regionally specific trends subsequently become immensely popular internationally and worldwide, partly fuelled by widely shared 'National Days', National Pabebe Wave Day being one such example.
We're now tracking the sentiment around every mention of Ballot day to show how people feel about Ballot. See if people like Ballot here.
We're detecting how Ballot affects other things more widely than just being a celebrated day. See how Ballot affects company share prices.
Hang On, It Was National Ballot Day Already This Year..!?
Yes, this is strangely enough entirely possible. The date shown for National Ballot Day can change, if for instance several hundred people tweeted about Ballot Day in early April, then in May a few thousand people tweeted about Ballot day, then the date shown for National Ballot Day, could come up twice :D
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