{"id":24506,"date":"2017-08-19T18:07:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T01:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24506"},"modified":"2017-08-19T18:07:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T01:07:47","slug":"san-diego-suffrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/san-diego-suffrage\/","title":{"rendered":"California Rally Celebrates Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/suffera.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-suffrage-festival.html\">Suffrage Rally &amp; Parade<\/a> in San Diego&#8217;s Balboa Park Aug.26, 2017 expects a\u00a0festive event with speeches and a march honoring the 19th Amendment and women&#8217;s right to vote. 100 years ago on Aug.28, 1917 a women&#8217;s suffrage rally in front of the White House erupted into a riot, and in 1920 women finally could vote. That&#8217;s not to say they didn&#8217;t vote before 1920 &#8212; &#8220;Cockeyed Charley Parkhurst-The West&#8217;s Most Unusual Stagewhip,&#8221; by Craig MacDonald, documents the first woman to vote in the United States.<\/p>\n<h2>US Voting<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>15th Amendment (1870) vote shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.<\/li>\n<li>19th Amendment (1920): vote shall not be denied on account of sex.<\/li>\n<li>23rd Amendment (1961): District of Columbia can vote for the President and Vice President.<\/li>\n<li>24th Amendment (1964): \u00a0vote shall not be denied for failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.<\/li>\n<li>26th Amendment (1971): vote shall not be denied for eighteen years of age or older.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>California Votes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In August 2017 these California counties \u00a0show 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%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Voting Trivia<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Suffrage, from Latin suffragium, means &#8220;vote&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>In 1840, the king of Hawai&#8217;i gave voting rights to men &amp; women. In\u00a01852 women&#8217;s voting rights were taken away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Suffrage Rally &amp; Parade in San Diego&#8217;s Balboa Park Aug.26, 2017 expects a\u00a0festive event with speeches and a march honoring the 19th Amendment and women&#8217;s right to vote. 100 years ago on Aug.28, 1917 a women&#8217;s suffrage rally in front of the White House erupted into a riot, and in 1920 women finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24506"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}