Voting facts and facts about votings.
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In 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed giving the right of women to vote. The Nineteenth Amendment prohibits state and federal government from denying the right to vote to vote by any citizen because of their sex.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests, which had been used to keep Black Americans from voting.
Susan B. Anthony was arrested and fined in 1872 for voting in the presidential election. She never paid the $100 fine.
Some British women over 30 won the right to vote in 1918, but women didn't get equal voting rights with men in the UK until 1928.
Washington, DC license plates say "End Taxation Without Representation" to protest the city's lack of a voting member in Congress.