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GOP taking aim at Dems

‘Kansas was really a hotbed of the suffrage movement’

of Kansas women voting

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Conservatives hoping for replay of primaries with new target By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

Voters on Tuesday will elect leaders from the White House to the Statehouse and beyond. Topped by the presidential tussle between Democratic incumbent Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the ballot will also feature the race between U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Topeka, and Democrat Tobias Schlingensiepen, of Topeka, for the 2nd Congressional District, which has been Please see GOP, page 6A

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SUFFRAGETTES RIDE IN THE CAR of Kansas Gov. Walter Roscoe in 1912, going after the vote in Topeka. The women are identified as, from left, Laura Clay, president of Kentucky Equal Rights Association, Lucy B. Johnston, Sarah A. Thurston, Helen Eacker and Stella H. Stubbs. They were all members of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association.

State approved civil right 8 years before nation did This coming Tuesday ‘Every woman in the state of Kansas should get out and vote in celebration.’

By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

While modern-day politicians angle for the women’s vote, 100 years ago, after much struggle, women in Kansas won equal voting rights. “When I read back through the history and the stories, it makes me feel really proud,” said Melinda Henderson, president of the League of Women Voters of Lawrence-Douglas County. “Kansas was really a hotbed of the suffrage movement.” On Nov. 5, 1912, Kansas voters — all of them men — approved a state constitutional amendment by a count of 175,246 votes for and 159,197 against. That was eight years before ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right Please see WOMEN, page 2A

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DOUGLAS COUNTY CLERK JAMIE SHEW and Melinda Henderson, president of the League of Women Voters of Lawrence-Douglas County, look at Douglas County voting records from 1912, when Kansas approved a constitutional amendment giving women equal voting rights.

LAWRENCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Actual enrollment patterns not matching forecasts “

By Peter Hancock

phancock@ljworld.com

Lawrence school district officials say they are firm in their decision not to close or consolidate any elementary schools, despite the fact that enrollment projections that were used to justify that decision earlier this year have so far turned out to be inaccurate. “I am convinced that consolidation is not the ideal route for our dis-

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I am convinced that consolidation is not the ideal route for our district to take. I recognize it is a potential solution. I just don’t believe it’s the best one.” — Lawrence school board president Vanessa Sanburn trict to take,” school board president Vanessa Sanburn said Thursday. “I recognize it is a potential solution. I just don’t be-

lieve it’s the best one.” Earlier this year, the school board backed away from plans to close or consolidate certain

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grade schools in central and east Lawrence. Those schools included Cordley, Hillcrest, Kennedy, New York, Pinckney and Sunset Hill. That decision to back away from consolidation was based on a report from a community task force the board had appointed in 2011. The task force’s report noted, among other things, that new enrollment forecasts showed the district overall would grow faster over the next

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five years than had previously been estimated, and that the growth would be concentrated in the very neighborhoods that were targeted for school closure and consolidation. Those projections, from the consulting firm RSP and Associates, showed enrollment would grow more than twice as fast in those attendance zones over the next five years compared with other

As you wait for the polls to close and the counting to begin on Tuesday, be sure to check out LJWorld.com, where the Journal-World staff will provided the latest in Election Day coverage. Our reporters will be at polling sites in Douglas County, providing updates on turnout. We’ll also be chatting with voters about what issues were key in their decisions. In addition, our photographers will make photo and video stories on Tuesday. We’ll also provide the latest election information from across the nation. If you see something that you think we might be interested in, please get in touch with me at ctrowbridge@ljworld.com or 832-7196. And please update our live blog with your photographs or observations. You can find it at http://bit. ly/LJElection. And don’t forget to stay tuned to LJWorld. com Tuesday night as we provided the latest election results. The polls will close at 7 p.m., and once votes are tallied, we’ll provide them to you. And, of course, pick up a copy of Wednesday’s Journal-World print edition, where we’ll document this historic election in stories and photographs. — Caroline Trowbridge, Journal-World Community Editor

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After keeping the score close in the first half, the KU football team couldn’t keep up with Baylor after halftime and lost 41-14. Page 1B

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