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As women registered to vote, they were "assessed" in order to verify their status as citizens as well as their ages and addresses. [68] The first time women in Pennsylvania voted was on November 2, 1920. [69] On November 18, 1920, PWSA dissolved and reformed as the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Pennsylvania. [70]
Pennsylvania suffragists in 1917. This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Pennsylvania. Activists in the state began working towards women's rights in the early 1850s, when two women's rights conventions discussed women's suffrage. A statewide group, the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association (PWSA), was formed in 1869.
Newspaper illustration of an Illinois ballot for women, who in 1912 were allowed to vote only for trustees of the state university. An early Illinois women's suffrage organization was created by Susan Hoxie Richardson in 1855 in Earlville, Illinois. [132] Women in Illinois helped the war effort during the Civil War. [132]
In the two years since the fall of Roe, there have been nearly two dozen bills introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature to restrict abortion. Opinion: Women's reproductive freedom, health on the ...
The measures won despite strong institutional opposition from anti-abortion advocacy groups, GOP politicians, judges and others who tried to stop the measures from even getting on the ballot in ...
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania on November 3, 2020. [1] The office of the Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth oversees the election process, including voting and vote counting. [2] To vote by mail, registered Pennsylvania voters had to request a ballot by October 27, 2020. [3]
A ballot measure in Florida will let voters decide whether to make recreational weed — sold at designated dispensaries — legal for everyone over 21. Medical marijuana is already legal in Florida.
The 2018 Pennsylvania state elections took place on November 6, 2018. On that date, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania held elections for the following offices: Governor and Lieutenant Governor (on one ticket), U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania State Senate, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and various others. Primary ...