Dakota Datebook: Partial suffrage, part 3 Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Prairie Public 

By this date in 1920, 35 of the 36 states needed had ratified the 19th Amendment. Some states had already granted full or partial suffrage. North Dakota was one of 12 that had granted partial suffrage, and as a result, women were able to participate in their first presidential primary. A court ruling found that women could also run for election as delegate to national party conventions, and two women were on the ballot for those positions.

Yet some questions remained about the logistics of women voting. Assistant Attorney General F. E. Packard noted that it wasn’t clear how to establish party registration for women, though he thought that if the 19th Amendment was ratified by enough states prior to the primary, all laws connected to “the qualifications, registration and voting of men electors would apply without additional legislation …”

But that didn’t happen in time for the primary.

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