The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-06-10
IOWA WOMEN Can VOTE
For Presidential Electors This Year
as New Law Gives Them the
RIGHT in the State of Iowa. >

Regardless whether woman suf-
frage wins nationally, the women OF
Iowa who are 81 years old or over
are entitled to vote for presidential
electors this year, the last legisla-
tnee nem hnyns bs rrh pafsed The iaI eGera gyR aW
says the presidential electors shall
be elected in such manner as pro-
vided by the legislature of the var
iOus states, and the Iowa legislature
having provided that women can
vote for presidential electors there is
no question but what they can vote
at the election in November. The new
law provides that separate ballot
containing the names Of the candi--
electors of the various. parties, and
that a separate ballot box shall not
be provided for the Women's ballots.
The new law reads as follows:
Chapter 353, Section l. President
ial electors-women entitled to vote
for. That section eleven hundred
|seventy-three I173, supplement, to
thirty-eighth general assembly be
and the same is hereby amended by
adding thereto the following:
provided, however, that the right
to vote for presidential electors shall
not be denied or abridged on ac-
count of sex, and that every woman
vhoh as attained the age of twenty
one CID years and who possesses all
other qualifications requisite to a
male voter, shall be entitled to vote,
the same as men, al, arv election held
dental electors
Sec. 2. Separate ballot for wo-
men-form.- That section eleven
hundred six 11O6) Of the Code as
amended by the acts of the thirty
eighth general assembly be and is
hereby amended bya adding thereto
the following:
held for the election of presidential
electors a separate ballot shall be
provided for women, substantially in
the following form:
(Here is set out the regular cleo
ton ticket form.)
'And said ballot may be voted by
them in the manner provided for the
government of elections of said Of
ficers and shall be counted the same
as other ballots cast at such cleo
tions"
Sec. 8. Women required to regis
tr-when-ballot box. That section
eleven hundred thirty-one (113D of
the Code, be and the same is hereby
amended in the sixth line thereof by
adding after the word vote" semi
colon instead Of the period and the
following: except that in elections
for president, vice-president and
presidential electors, women shall be
chapter two l2) Of this title, and
acts amendatory thereto, and separate
ballot box shall not be used for
women's ballots at such election.
Sec. 4. Registration. That sec
ton ten hundred seventy-seven
(lO77), supplement to the Code,
1918, be and the same is hereby
amended by inserting in the seventh
line, after the word day, the, fol,
lowing: Including women entitled
to vote for president, vice-president
and presidential electors.
Approved April %, A. D. 1919.
Article II of the Constitution of the
United States reads: each state
shall ll~apopint, in such manner. as the
legislature thereof may direct, a
number of electors, equal to the
whole number TO senators and rep
resentatives to which the state may
be entitled in the congress; but no
senator of representative, or person
holding an office of trust or profit
under the United States, shall be ap-
pointed
From the above it is very plain
that the women of Iowa will be en-
titled to vote for presidential elect
ors, as the new law uassed by the last
assembly does not conflict in any
way with the constitution.