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You go, girls … right to the voting booth.
One hundred ten years ago, California women joined their already-enfranchised sisters in five other Western states — Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Washington — and cast their first ballots.
It took another nine years for all American women to get the vote; the 19th Amendment made it illegal for states or the nation to stop women from voting.
It was a near thing, though, even in California.
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