Women are placing “I voted” stickers on the grave of pioneering suffragist Susan B. Anthony in what has become an Election Day tradition in western New York.
About 150 stickers have been placed on Anthony’s headstone at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, according to graveyard spokesman Patrick Flanigan.
Anthony was arrested after attempting to cast a ballot in the Nov. 5, 1872, presidential election — an act of defiance that paved the way for the Women’s Suffrage movement and the 19th Amendment, which extended voting rights to women.
She spent much of her life in Rochester and died in 1906 at the age of 86 — 14 years before the 19th Amendment’s passage.
Voters flocked to her grave on Election Day 2016 when Hillary Clinton was poised to become the nation’s first female president, according to Flanigan.
Cemetery workers remove the stickers to prevent damage to the headstone, and in 2016, the graveyard donated the stickers to Rochester’s city historian, Flanigan said.
“We had a pretty big turnout that year, and we did preserve those,” he said.



