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78:, who promised to bring their request before the Cabinet. On 19 September 1893 the governor of New Zealand signed a new Electoral Act into law which made it the first self-governing country in the world in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. These events pushed forward the case being made by the League and in the same month it was noted that Women's Suffrage had been adopted as a plank in the platform of
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not asking the privilege of being allowed to vote. We are not "your humble petitioners," and therefore do not "forever pray." The whole thing resolves into this. We have made up our minds to vote, we intend to vote, and we will vote. Do you understand, or don't you want
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