The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo... ...enough, governments granted only men the right to vote . Eventually, in America and England, groups of gu... ...she insisted -unsuccessfully- on being allowed to vote in the Maryland assembly.Almost two centuries lat... ...g on her head. Instead, she de...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/14/You-Go-Girls-The-Suffragettes/
Bobby McDonald ran for a seat on the city council... ...seat on the city council in Walton, Kentucky. The vote Tuesday ended up in a tie between McDonald and Ol... ...he six-person council.Each candidate captured 669 votes , but one ballot McDonald is sure would have gone... ...day.“If she had just been...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/09/The-Vote-That-Would-Have-Really-Counted/
This Twaggie was made when Matt Lassen illustrated a Tweet by Ethan Trex. I didn't get a sticker as a reward for voting. I got to stand in line for 30 minutes while the smell of delicious soup made everyone hungry, just...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/06/Did-You-Get-a-Sticker/
It took 80 years of protests and campaigning befor... ...nd campaigning before women achieved the right to vote in the United States, and it finally happened in... ...nasty and ridiculous arguments to deny women the vote , a lot of which is enshrined in printed material,... ...ee more and read about the fight...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/02/The-War-on-Women-Waged-in-Postcards/[http://youtu.be/dF3OS-2WPPs]The polls are in and... ...pongeBob SquarePants will likely win the under-10 vote . Sorry, "Other Guy" and "Broccoli Almond." The be...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/05/What-Kids-Know-About-the-2012-Election/
Right before elections is the usual time to toss p... ...Texas Secretary of State sent out of list of dead voters generated by cross-referencing federal Social Sec... ...s. The only problem with this was that those dead voters didn't like it one bit. At least one county regi... ...informing them that they wo...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/21/Undead-Texans-Want-to-Vote/
Are Women People? is a book of poetry by Alice Duer Miller, published in 1915. Lili Loofbourow downloaded the book through Project Gutenberg and was delighted to find that it was a book of satirical suffragist poetry, an...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/20/are-women-people/
The newest members of the Baseball Hall of Fam... ...no player has ever been inducted with 100% of the votes tallied. But there have been 27 players who got 9... ...e have been 27 players who got 90% or more of the votes cast. How many of those players can you name? I c...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/09/baseballs-90-percent-club/
NPR is trying to create a list of the best 100 sci... ...only several hundred, on which you are invited to vote . Scrolling through the list of great science fic... ...the voting begin! Here's how: Everyone gets 10 votes . Select your top 10 favorite titles, and then scr...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/04/vote-for-the-best-science-fiction/
One hundred years ago, women in Britain who wa... ...hundred years ago, women in Britain who wanted to vote were considered terrorists. Many were jailed, and...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/18/suffragette-surveillance/
