Voters in Rochester, N.Y. chose to show off their “I voted” stickers in an unusual way following Tuesday’s primary in the Empire State.
Dozens of individuals stopped by the Mt. Hope Cemetery where women’s rights leader Susan B. Anthony is buried. There, buried within her family’s plot, is a headstone for Anthony, who died in 1906, but is still remembered as a leading voice for women’s right to vote in elections.
Anthony did not live to see the enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment, but New Yorkers paid respects to her grave this week, leaving their stickers and bouquets of flowers as a token of thanks for her courage to stand up for women.
The tribute is believed to have started in 2004 when a woman named Sarah Jane McPike documented seeing two stickers on Anthony’s grave after a recent election.
