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The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election

posted by takyon on Monday December 05 2016, @09:00PM   
from the on-this-day dept.

Gaaark writes:

THE PETTICOAT REBELLION OF 1916
WOMEN GAIN RIGHT TO VOTE, SUCCEED IN OVERTHROWING GOVERNMENT

Or something like that, might have been Newspaper Headlines of the day.

The real story is that on December 5th, 1916, the polls opened at 8:00am in the small town of Umatilla, Oregon, for a municipal election. And there was not a woman in sight.
Until.

At 2pm, the women showed up in droves and with write-in ballots, they proceeded to elect an all-woman council: a coup d'etat, of sorts.

The story is at:
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-petticoat-rebellion-of-1916/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/63262/laura-starcher-and-petticoat-revolution-1916

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• Re:Benevolent sexism Re:Benevolent sexism (Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday December 05 2016, @10:22PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday December 05 2016, @10:22PM (#437416) Journal

  When the rich overwhelm the elections, it's a travesty of democracy.
   
  Yeah, because the rich don't overwhelm elections by actually voting.

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• Re:Benevolent sexism Re:Benevolent sexism (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 05 2016, @10:25PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 05 2016, @10:25PM (#437418)

  Weren't you whining previously about most candidates being rich white males?

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  • Re:Benevolent sexism (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday December 05 2016, @10:31PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday December 05 2016, @10:31PM (#437425) Journal

    No, I wasn't.

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