Wisconsin HELP NEEDED ON ELECTION DAY The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin’s election observers play an important role in documenting the voter experience on election day so we can make recommendations to improve future elections as well as being trained to respectfully intervene if necessary to prevent voters from being disenfranchised. LWV WI needs volunteers to observe polling places across the state on Election Day (Nov 6). We provide training, assign polling places to observe, and provide the reporting form for volunteers to note their observations. We ask that volunteers commit to observing their assigned polling place for at least 2hrs on Election Day. For more information and to sign up to volunteer The League of extraordinary women 09/11/2018, 11:04am Chicago SunTimes By to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous Radicals are trying to destroy our country. condition of servitude,” women were not Women want to vote. allowed to vote. Hard to believe that was the view once The second paragraph of the Declaration held by many in this country. The of Independence, called the most concept of women casting a ballot, revolutionary document in the history of actively participating in the democratic the world, states, “We hold these truths process, was considered extreme . . . by to be self-evident, that all men are men. created equal.” Women were certainly not their equals. OPINION It wasn’t until 1920, when the 19th Even after the 15th Amendment was Amendment became the law of the land, adopted after the Civil War declaring that that women were at long last allowed to the “right of citizens of the United Starts
Wisconsin HELP NEEDED ON ELECTION DAY The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin’s election observers play an important role in documenting the voter experience on election day so we can make recommendations to improve future elections as well as being trained to respectfully intervene if necessary to prevent voters from being disenfranchised. LWV WI needs volunteers to observe polling places across the state on Election Day (Nov 6). We provide training, assign polling places to observe, and provide the reporting form for volunteers to note their observations. We ask that volunteers commit to observing their assigned polling place for at least 2hrs on Election Day. For more information and to sign up to volunteer The League of extraordinary women 09/11/2018, 11:04am Chicago SunTimes By Radicals are trying to destroy our country. Women want to vote. Hard to believe that was the view once held by many in this country. The concept of women casting a ballot, actively participating in the democratic process, was considered extreme . . . by men. OPINION Even after the 15th Amendment was adopted after the Civil War declaring that the “right of citizens of the United Starts to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” women were not allowed to vote. The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, called the most revolutionary document in the history of the world, states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Women were certainly not their equals. It wasn’t until 1920, when the 19th Amendment became the law of the land, that women were at long last allowed to
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