Title: 'Vote No on Women's Suffrage': Bizarre Reasons For Not Letting Women Vote - The Atlantic
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'Vote No on Women's Suffrage': Bizarre Reasons For Not Letting Women Vote

Content: 'Vote No on Women's Suffrage': Bizarre Reasons For Not Letting Women Vote - The Atlantic
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'Vote No on Women's Suffrage': Bizarre Reasons For Not Letting Women Vote
Eleanor Barkhorn
November 6, 2012
"You do not need a ballot to clean out your sink spout." Wikimedia Commons
There's a lot that's flawed about the United States' voting system: long lines at polling stations, broken machines, voter intimidation, and more. But we can at least take comfort in the fact that, in theory anyway, all citizens in good standing, men and women alike, have the right to vote. This wasn't always the case, of course. Black Americans didn't have the constitutional right to vote until 1870, and it took women even longer to gain suffrage: the 19th Amendment didn't pass until 1920, following a long debate. One of the big voices against giving women the vote was the organization National Association OPPOSED to Woman Suffrage.