Timeline of women's suffrage liberty between 1718 and 1772. The Australian Commonwealth Franchise Act of 1902 enabled women to vote at federal elections and also permitted women to stand for election to the Australian Parliament, making the newly-federated country of Australia the first in the modern world to do so. In 1906, the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, which became the republic of Finland, was the second country in the world to implement both the right to vote and the right to run for office. Finland was also the first country in Europe to give women the right to vote. The world's first female
Give Your Vote Ghana through which questions can be sent in. The answers from the parties will be translated and broadcast in local languages by local TV and Radio and will be published on the internet. Meanwhile, people registered to vote in the UK can pledge to "give" their vote, thus to act as proxies for people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Ghana. Five days before the election in the UK, people in the participating countries will be able to vote at a physical ballot box or by sending a text message to a local number. The votes are then proportionately assigned to UK