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Back Where We Started
There was a large voter turnout, and as always, people wanted to find out what happened as soon as possible. Radio had not yet come along, so many people in the City gathered in Times Square - where the NY Times still had its own building - to see the results as soon as they were flashed to the public.
Easy as pie, right?
New York Times, November 5, 1917
The white searchlight waggled to the west; the suffragists finally had carried New York. It would not be long until the U.S. Constitution was similarly amended.
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