Right of foreigners to vote of other supranational groupings of countries. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty imposed reciprocity inside the European Union concerning voting rights in local elections; this already existed for the European elections. In several European states, the public debate on the right of foreigners to vote was therefore renewed, as some foreign residents had the right to vote (European foreign residents) while others, non-Europeans, did not. As a result of this debate, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Slovenia and Belgium extended the right to vote, in different manners, to all foreign residents (which was already the case in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Netherlands). The European Parliament,
Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women since 1882 in Massachusetts. The committee started publishing a journal, "The Remonstrance", in 1890. The journal's articles by women were published anonymously while a male editor was used in the first few years. The first committee spent most of its time collecting signatures for anti-suffrage petitions called "remonstrances." In 1895, a bill, called the Wellman bill, to give women municipal suffrage in Boston was put to a popular vote and women who were involved in the anti-suffrage movement in Massachusetts felt they had to create a formal organization. The Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women