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Happy Suffrage Day/Are you registered to vote?
Aug 27th, 2008 by Viviane
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
from Thomas Roche:
On August 26, 1920, Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed women the right to vote. Tennessee, the 36th state to ratify the amendment, had done so on August 18 (three-quarters of State legislatures must ratify an amendment for it to take effect).
The last state to ratify the 19th Amendment, Mississippi, didn’t do so until 1984.
Are you registered to vote? Start with the League of Women Voters.
If you live in NYC, visit the NYC Board of Elections site. Have you recently moved? If so, you’ll need to transfer your registration: “Because of the role that one’s address plays in the electoral system, New York State law requires voters to notify the Board of Elections within 25 days of an address change to preserve their voting rights.”