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Despite two-thirds of both the California State Senate and California State Assembly voting to put the measure on the ballot, it failed 45-55 percentage-wise (110,355 Yes votes and 137,099 No votes. [14])Some suffragists believed the power of the liquor lobby was the reason for the defeat as it was assumed women voters would vote for temperance ...
The League of Women Voters of California was first established in the 1920s, to further the movement of women voting and in politics after the 19th amendment was passed. Many were confident that women in California would get the vote and with this brought many organizations to California, the League of Women Voters being on a national level. [3]
League of Women Voters (U.S.) Education Fund (1966). The Big Water Fight: Trials and Triumphs in Citizen Action on Problems of Supply, Pollution, Floods, and Planning Across the U.S.A. S. Greene Press. ISBN 9780828900515. League of Women Voters (October 1948). The Citizen and the United Nations. Washington, DC: The National League of Women Voters.
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In such elections, voters cast their votes for a slate of representatives (electors) who have pledged to cast their votes for a particular presidential and vice presidential candidate (a ticket) in the Electoral College. During the election, the voters of the state select the slate of electors on the ballot by voting for the ticket that they ...
Below are notable members of the League of Women Voters. Juanita Jones Abernathy (1931–2019), member of the board of directors of the Atlanta Fulton County League of Women Voters; Sadie L. Adams (1872–1945), one of the first women to serve on an election board in Chicago and one of the founders of the Alpha Suffrage Club
But the mechanism to do that under Proposition 47 expired in November 2022, according to the state Judicial Council, and state law only allows people to apply later if they can show a "good cause ...
Voters in California have rejected a ballot measure that would have raised the state minimum wage to $18 per hour by 2026, the highest in the country. Opponents, including the California Chamber ...