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The annual Suffrage Rally & Parade in San Diego’s Balboa Park Aug.26, 2017 expects a festive event with speeches and a march honoring the 19th Amendment and women’s right to vote. 100 years ago on Aug.28, 1917 a women’s suffrage rally in front of the White House erupted into a riot, and in 1920 women finally could vote. That’s not to say they didn’t vote before 1920 — “Cockeyed Charley Parkhurst-The West’s Most Unusual Stagewhip,” by Craig MacDonald, documents the first woman to vote in the United States.

US Voting

• 15th Amendment (1870) vote shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
• 19th Amendment (1920): vote shall not be denied on account of sex.
• 23rd Amendment (1961): District of Columbia can vote for the President and Vice President.
• 24th Amendment (1964):  vote shall not be denied for failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
• 26th Amendment (1971): vote shall not be denied for eighteen years of age or older.

California Votes

• In August 2017 these California counties  show more registered voters than voting-age citizens: Imperial (102%), Lassen (102%), Los Angeles (112%), Monterey (104%), San Diego (138%), San Francisco (114%), San Mateo (111%), Santa Cruz (109%), Solano (111%), Stanislaus (102%), and Yolo (110%).

Voting Trivia

• Suffrage, from Latin suffragium, means “vote”.
• In 1840, the king of Hawai’i gave voting rights to men & women. In 1852 women’s voting rights were taken away.