Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — HERE’S THE NEW SUFFRAGE BILL [ARTICLE]

HERE’S THE NEW SUFFRAGE BILL

Under the, suffrage bill passed by both houses of the legislature and signed by the governor Wednesday, the first election in which power is granted to women to. vote 3s the special election next September for the choice of delegates to constitutional convention. Power is granted ,also to vote at the city elections all over the state next November. Owing to the absence of an emergency, clause, the primary elections of March 6 are not included. The full text of the bill as passed by both houses is as follows; • ..'..xi “A bill for an act granting women the right to vote for Presidential electors and certain other officers/and to vote in certain elections. ‘ ‘ ' “Section!. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Indiana, That every woman who is a citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one C2l) years and upward, who shall have resided in-this state during the six (6) months and in the township sixty (60) days and in the ward or precinct thirty (30) days immediately preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote in the township or precinct where she may reside, shall be allov.'sl to vote at. such election for Presidential electors, delegates to a constitutional convention, for att'Orney-general, for chief of the bureau of statistics, for state for reporter of the supreme court, for judges of the appellate court, the superior courts, criminal courts, probate courts, and juvenile courts, ’ for members of the county IcoiinHl; for county assessor; for town-y ship trustee, township advisory board and township assessor; for alj elective officers of cities and towns; for all school officers elected by the people, and for all other elective officers not provided for in the constitution of Indiana, created by the. general assembly of the state of Indiana; and upon all questions other than constitutional amendments, but including the ratification of a new constitution, which may be submitted to a vote of the people of the state or any subdivision thereof, or of any municipality, and in any primary election such women/ shall have the right to vote for all officers nominated or elected at such primaries. “Sec. 2. Separate ballot boxes and ballots shall he provided for women, which ballots for officers shall contain the names Of candidates .who are to be voted for by women, and the ballots cast by women shall be canvassed and counted separately and'' shall be canvassed with other ballots. At any such election where registration is required, women voters shall be registered in the same manner as men voters.”