Getting out for the right to vote in New Jersey.
When voters go to the polls next month, a woman will be on the ballot for president. It took nearly 100 years to get here.
Here's a look at New Jersey's role in the election process.
The photo above shows a group of women from the New Jersey Women's Political Union at their booth on the Asbury Park boardwalk during the 1919 suffrage campaign.
A statewide referendum on women's right to vote was held in New Jersey on Oct. 19, 1915. Though it would be defeated -- 184,390 to 133,282 -- four years later, Garden State women would rally behind the Democratic nominee for governor after his party endorsed women's right to vote. That man, Edward Edwards, would go on to win the gubernatorial race in 1919 and, in January 1920, N.J. legislators ratified the 19th Amendment -- giving women a place in the voting booth.
On Oct. 6, this picture and other photos from New Jersey history will appear in a gallery titled "This month in N.J. history: October" on nj.com.
