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The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election

posted by takyon on Monday December 05 2016, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Wednesday December 07 2016, @02:26AM

    by Marand (1081) on Wednesday December 07 2016, @02:26AM (#438171) Journal

    Oh cool, didn't know they started doing that. I'll keep that in mind if Mozilla completely shits up the mobile browser, though I currently have no reason to switch since I haven't had any issues with mobile Firefox since I replaced the 2011-era tablet. Kind of doubt it would matter though, since that tile bug was happening even as far back as 2012ish.

    Thanks for the heads up. Now they just need to start officially supporting Linux so that maybe it can start getting into distro repos before the Firefox ESR releases go off the plot like the mainline versions are starting to.

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