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If you must hold your nose, so to speak, vote for the one you feel would better guide the country, state, or city. Do your duty as a citizen. Voting is the greatest privilege we have as Americans.
At least 40% to 90% of American voters stay home during elections, evidence that low voter turnout for both national and local elections is a serious problem throughout the United States. With the ...
They say if you don’t vote you can’t complain,” Canther said about his Senate vote. “I felt both of them were flipping back and forth on certain things," he added, referring to the ...
It was the first women's rights convention to be chaired by a woman, a step that was considered to be radical at the time. [56] That meeting was followed by the Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850, the first women's rights convention to be organized on a statewide basis, which also endorsed women's suffrage. [57]
1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.
After nearly two decades of living in the D.C. metropolitan area, I finally joined America’s most exclusive club: people who complain about politics while actually doing something about it.
Dutch women won the passive vote (allowed to run for parliament) after a revision of the Dutch Constitution in 1917 and the active vote (electing representatives) in 1919, and American women on August 26, 1920, with the passage of the 19th Amendment (the Voting Rights Act of 1965 secured voting rights for racial minorities).
Stewart added, “If you don’t vote, you don’t have a right to complain.” Stewart said he has always been a supporter of Gov. Chris Sununu, praising what he described as the governor's ...