Vote Facts

New Zealand was the first self-governing country in the world to grant all women the right to vote in national elections, in 1893.

Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.

Last 2 European countries to let women vote: Switzerland (1971) and Leichtenstein (1984).

In 1916, a US constitutional amendment was proposed requiring a national vote before declaring war, with a provision that anyone voting 'yes' would have to register for military service. The idea resurfaced multiple times, most notably as the Ludlow Amendment in the 1930s.

In ancient Athens, the worlds first democracy, they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people could vote on the politician they thought was most destructive to the democratic process. The “winner” was banished from Athens for 10 years.