Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-16 | Page 10 | Women Voters in Majority in England

WOMEN VOTERS !.N MAJORITY IN ENGLAND (By International News Service) LONDON Five million moro women wo-men voters aro. to be added "to the British polling books. That will mean the women voters will greatly outnumber outnum-ber the men, perhaps by a million. Under the new measure, which has the government's sanction and makes it certain of enactment, women over twenty-one years of age, instead of J thirty-one as at present, will get thei ballot. The measure was forced upon I the government by the Labor party This means that at the next general ! election the women of England will have the power of practically dominating dominat-ing tho politics of the nation.