Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1920 — ELECTION BOARD RULES ON MARRIED WOMEN [ARTICLE]

ELECTION BOARD RULES ON MARRIED WOMEN

Women of American citizenship who were married before 1907 to men who were not citizens did not lose their citizenship and such women may vote at the coming election, the state board of election commissioners 'has notified Jasper county election officials. It is stated, however, that a federal law in 1907 established the citizenship of married women as identical with that of their husbands. If the husband of a woman who lost her citizenship through marriage to him dies, ner original status obtains again, according to the officialinterpretation. Equal suffrage is extended by the federal suffrage amendment only to citizens. In Indiana, foreignborn men who have declared their intention of becoming citizens, except alien enemies, may vote. A new compilation of election laws of Indiana and interpretation of them by the state board of election commissioners soon is to be ready for distribution among election officials. It construes the absent voters law as not liberal enough to apply to those who just .wish to remain at at home and send their ballot to the polls. The board believes the law is to apply to those who can not get to the polls and not to those who merely do not wish to make the trip. . , . .