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Later years saw suffragists forming a statewide group, the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association (PWSA), and other smaller groups throughout the state. Early efforts moved slowly, but steadily, with suffragists raising awareness and winning endorsements from labor unions. In 1915, Pennsylvania had a voter referendum on women's suffrage.
In many U.S. states, ballot measures may originate by several different processes: [4] Overall, 26 US states have initiative and/or veto referendum processes at the statewide level, [5] and all states have at least one form of legislatively referred processes: 49 states have at least a legislatively referred process to amend their constitutions ...
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.
New York: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [12] Pennsylvania: Married women are granted separate economy. [4] Rhode Island: Married women are granted separate economy. [4] 1849. Alabama: Married women are given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4]
For 2024, 80 statewide ballot measures have been certified for the ballot in 30 states, four more measures than the average (76) for this point in the election cycle from 2012 to 2022. The average ...
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]
Voters in 41 states will take policymaking into their own hands as they decide the fate of 146 ballot measures on topics as diverse as abortion rights, election laws, workers' rights and even drug ...
Senate Bill 250 would require the use of anti-fraud ballot paper at elections that uses watermarking and holographic foil, for example, among measures to prevent the production of fraudulent ballots.