Georgia rejected the Nineteenth Amendment, “The rights 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,” on July 24, 1919. In August 1921, the Georgia General Assembly passed an act repealing the section of the Georgia Code stating that “females are not entitled to the privilege of the elective franchise,…”, and thus gave women the right to vote, although the Nineteenth Amendment had already been ratified on August 18, 1920. Georgia finally ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on March 27, 1970.