Cast ... as in cast your vote.
Ninety (90) years ago today the 19th amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which granted women the right to vote, was ratified by the state of Tennessee by a one-vote margin. Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify the amendment, thereby making it the law of the land.
The language in the amendment is simple
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Creation & passage of the amendment was decades in the making. (my home state of Florida didn't ratify the amendment until 1969 and Oklahoma was the 33rd state to ratify the amendment in the spring of 1920.)
Supposedly the legislator in Tennessee who cast the deciding vote did so at the request (probably demand) of his mother.
You can read more about my thoughts on this day and Women's Equality Day (Aug. 26) in a post from last year: Coequal.
