Why women should vote


This is the story of our Grandmothers, and Great-grandmothers, as they lived only 90 years ago. It was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the poles and vote. The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'

They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.

For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.

So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?

"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." (Josef Stalin)

EVERYONE should vote.
its quite a big deal to me.
quite a big deal to a lotta people.

this year i think everyone should vote because times are changing and yes, one vote can matter.

But doesnt the electoral college null the popular vote? In the Gore/Bush race, despite the "chad" controversy, Gore had won the popular vote, but failed to get enough electoral votes to put him in office...

so really, why would Americans bother to vote when their votes dont really count??...

EVERY vote counts!

It's not only important for women but everyone to vote.

BTW... our form of govt. is NOT a democracy (popular vote) but a REPUBLIC form...(representive of EVERY STATE in the nation.)

I wish people would get that right.

Thats basically how women are treated by police now. Whats changed?