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right to vote

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a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment

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American women got the vote in 1920 Source: Internet

Abbott’s Oct. 1 order allowed only one mail ballot drop-off site per county, no matter its size, which the judge said likely violates the right to vote. Source: Internet

Accomplishment of suffrage (1918) When she returned from Russia, Pankhurst was delighted to find that women's right to vote was finally on its way to becoming a reality. Source: Internet

A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Thursday that the law did not violate the 26th Amendment because it merely confers a benefit to a certain age group and does not abridge the right to vote for others. Source: Internet

According to the accord, foreigners who came to the state between 1951 and 1961 were given full citizenship but those who arrived there between 1961 and 1971 did not get right to vote for the next ten years. Source: Internet

After the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1870, giving African American men the right to vote, various women's groups wanted the right to vote as well. Source: Internet

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