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The olympics don't take only one day, the paralympics are also a thing, as are the winter olympics. The olympics that happen on leap years are the summer olympics and February isn't in summer.
Early voting takes longer than a day, and there are elections other than presidential elections that happen with greater frequency.
And February 29 doesn't happen on years ending in 00 unless the year ends in 000.
EDIT: scroll down to see how confidently wrong I was about leap years!
That's not correct. Centuries are not leap years, unless they're divisible by 400 (not 1000). So, 2400 will be a leap year, but 3000 will not.
I stand corrected.