Women are flocking to the grave of suffragette Susan B. Anthony today

Women are remembering Susan B. Anthony on Election Day.

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published 8 November 2016

Throngs of women are visiting the Rochester, New York, grave of suffragette Susan B. Anthony today to commemorate the first election in which Americans have the opportunity to choose a female president. Anthony's modest tombstone is plastered with "I voted" stickers, and the cemetery will stay open late Tuesday evening so more voters can stop by.

Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before American women gained the right to vote through the 19th Amendment. She was never allowed to cast a ballot herself.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.