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Newspapers in Georgia also reflected this attitude about women's suffrage, with the Greensboro Herald saying that it would support women's suffrage if there were no Black women in the state. [97] Many anti-suffragists did not want Black women to ever get the option to vote because they would not be able to use the threat of violence to keep ...
In 1917, Waycross, Georgia allowed women to vote in primary elections and in 1919 Atlanta granted the same. Georgia was the first state to reject the Nineteenth Amendment . Women in Georgia still had to wait to vote statewide after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified on August 26, 1920.
The election of 1824 was a complex realigning election following the collapse of the prevailing Democratic-Republican Party, resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the party, and competing for influence in different parts of the country. The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of ...
Georgia is one of seven states that require a run-off election if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in a primary election and one of only two states (the other being Mississippi) that require a run-off election for state and congressional offices if no candidate wins a majority of the vote in a general election; Louisiana has a ...
The Peach State’s election official noted that 92 counties exceeded 50 percent turnout for the first time in state history. A total of 3,761,968 people voted in person early while 242,620 sent ...
At least 252,000 voters had cast ballots at early-voting sites as of 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT), nearly double the 136,000 who participated in the first day of early voting in the 2020 election, said ...
A record number of early votes have been cast in Georgia on Tuesday as residents headed to the polls in a critical battleground state that is grappling with the fallout from Hurricane Helene and ...
Women's suffrage in Georgia (U.S. state) (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "History of women in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.