number exceeding eight per cent of the number of legal voters voting
at the last preceding General Election held in such State shall
petition for the submission to the legal voters of said State of the
question whether women shall have equal rights with men in respect
to voting at all elections to be held in such State, such question
shall be so submitted; and if, upon such submission, a majority of
the legal voters of the State voting on the question shall vote in
favor of granting to women such equal rights, the same shall
thereupon be deemed established, anything in the constitution or
laws of such State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Compare this with the simplicity and directness of the original Susan B.
Anthony Amendment: