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and the right to vote and be voted for. She also advocated laws to protect women and children, one of the first people to do so. At the time, Brazil did not have voting slips and no prior registration of candidates. The limited number of people entitled to vote just wrote the names of the people they supported on a piece of paper. Despite not campaigning in Bahia, Dillon received some support, but not enough to be elected. In the same national election, Maria
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politics in the 19th century was seen as a man's activity, so that the judge concluded that it was unnecessary to make such a prohibition explicit in the legal text. However, according to Dillon, she was later granted the right to vote after appealing and in 1887 she voted for Júlio de Mendonça
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Despite having been denied electoral registration in 1890, Dillon sought election as a federal deputy for Bahia in 1891. Her platform was published in
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Dillon's daughter, Niobe
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in Rio Grande do Sul. The municipal judge dismissed the petition on 18 November 1886 on the grounds that the electoral legislation had not considered that women might be given access to university qualifications. Although the country's constitution did not explicitly prohibit women from voting,
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in Rio Grande do Sul to obtain a diploma confirming that she had been registered to vote in 1885. The commission in Rio de
Janeiro was divided between not depriving the "voter of the right to vote already acquired" and not making an exception to the then recent decision to prohibit women from
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on 20 January 1861. Taking advantage of changes to the law that allowed females to attend university, she initially studied medicine but then graduated in dentistry from the
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