Voters Are Flocking to Susan B. Anthony’s Grave on Election Day, Placing Their "I Voted" Stickers On Her Grave
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People are flocking to Susan B. Anthony's grave in Rochester, New York to place their "I Voted" Stickers on her gravestone. Anthony was arrested in Rochester in 1872 for casting an illegal vote there. Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before women were given the right to vote.
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The cemetery in Rochester, NY opened at 7:30am this morning to accommodate all of the voters who wanted to share this historic day with a woman who fought so hard for women's suffrage. -
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By mid-afternoon, approximately 2,000 people (largely women and girls) had made thier way to the Anthony family plot. -
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At 11 a.m., Lovely Warren, the mayor of Rochester and the first woman elected to that position, arrived at the grave. “I was elected 141 years to the day that Susan B. Anthony cast the illegal vote that she was arrested for. -
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Anthony was a co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. She was arrested in Rochester in November 1872 and convicted of illegal voting, and refused to pay the $100 fine. -
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The 19th Amendment, known as the Anthony Amendment, gave women the right to vote in 1920.
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