Voting rights for women

[amigo]

this is how to win the debate about voting rights.

when our country was founded, most of the world was ruled by kings and queens. people wanted president George Washington to be crowned a king.

this is because there was no mass media, no newspapers, no radio, no tv, etc. the average person has no idea who the president is, what the political parties are, or what is happening in the world. in addition, the government had virtually no impact on the average american's lives. no one had to even pay taxes.

women claim they didn't have the right to vote but it isn't true. you can check Wikipedia and it will show that women voted since long before our country was founded.
"Lydia Taft was an early forerunner in Colonial America who was allowed to vote in three New England town meetings, beginning in 1756"

the first 15 or 20 presidents were elected by the electoral college. that means that people like president Lincoln were voted in by perhaps 150 votes. there were probably less than 300 people in the whole united states who had the right to vote for president for almost half of the presidential elections. even men did not have the right to vote.

we do not have federal voting laws. voting laws are either at the state or even county level.

new jersey, when founded, had a voting law that said 'all inhabitants of the state of New Jersey had the right to vote'. that meant a women in new jersey could vote but a woman in new York could not. in the end, the new jersey law was a stupid law.

according to the new jersey law, 'all inhabitants have the right to vote' includes criminals, teenagers, animals, foreign diplomats, illegal immigrants, slaves, Indians, babies, or anything else that could fit into the definition of 'inhabitant'. so it was a bad law and it was later changed.

we had the electoral college because most people lived in farms outside of the city. they may not go to the city for their entire life. they would not be able to read a newspaper, and election news would spread slowly. in order to vote they would have to quit their work on their farm, travel to the city, find a polling place, perhaps pay to stay at a few hotels, pay for restaurants, etc, when they probably had no money anyway. no one cared about voting when this country was founded, it was impractical, and no women would want to go through all that inconvenience just to vote for someone she knew nothing about, she would probably send her husband.

back in the day, a husband and wife were **married** which meant to be like 1 person. if both vote for the same candidate, it would be a double vote, which is redundant and unnecessary, so only 1 person per household needed to vote. otherwise all the votes would just be doubled, and I am sure everyone would say how wasteful it would be. if the husband and wife voted for opposite candidates, they would cancel their votes out. who would travel all day long or more and spend hard earned money to go and vote the opposite of their spouse on the same trip? no one would. so it made perfect sense that only 1 person would vote per household.

once mass media came along (radio) and public transportation (bus), women started voting. in fact, they started voting at the exact time that mass media worked for people who couldn't read, and just at the right time that public transportation was available. when it was convenient for women to vote in the US, they did. if they had the right to vote before then, they probably would not have, because they would have considered it to be too dangerous to travel to the polling place. and I never knew any women to be interested in politics anyway.

women were never granted the right to vote in the us. the 19th amendment is very short. here it is in their entirety;

"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."

no where in the 19th amendment does It mention women, female, etc.

in addition, although women did not vote in federal elections before the 19th amendment, women did vote in local elections and had near complete control over the education system. so just as women did not vote in the federal election for the few elections that men did, men never voted in school board elections and things like that because they were controlled by women.

there were only 12 elections where men directly voted for president and women in general did not. (up until 1920)

in the first election that women could vote, the increase in voters was only 30%. if women did in fact have a strong interest in voting rights, the increase should have been 100%.

[Winston]

Where do you get this from? Do you have any sources or documentation to prove that women voted in America before they had the right to?