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In 1921, the Georgia General Assembly passed a law that would allow women to vote and hold public office. [77] White women voted statewide in 1922. [51] However, African-American and Native American women were still excluded from the vote in Georgia. [78]
In 1917, Waycross, Georgia allowed women to vote in primary elections and in 1919 Atlanta granted the same. Georgia was the first state to reject the Nineteenth Amendment. Women in Georgia still had to wait to vote statewide after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified on August 26, 1920.
[354] [355] Even after the Nineteenth Amendment became the law of the land, Georgia did not allow women to vote right away. [356] Because of voter registration rules, women could not vote in the 1920 presidential election. [357] The first time women voted statewide was in 1922. [358]
Exit polls from the 2024 U.S. presidential election suggest a 10 percentage point gender gap in votes for Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. While a majority of female U.S. voters ...
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Georgia, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1788, Georgia has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864, when it had seceded in the American Civil War. Winners of the state are in bold.
In 2020, just 9 percent of Black women voted for Trump in 2020, and 19 percent of Black men, according to NBC’s exit poll. This year, the proportion of Black men voting Trump increased to 21 ...
Betty Cartledge, 81, voted for the first time in the 2024 US presidential election
Voter registration for the 2020 general elections ended on October 5 in Georgia, with a final total of 7,233,584 active registered voters, [119] an increase of 1,790,538 new voters since the 2016 election and 805,003 new voters since the 2018 gubernatorial election. Absentee mail ballots were first sent out on September 15.