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

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.

Something similar happened — though not on this scale — during the Democratic primary race and in previous election years. To cope with the extra volume of visitors this time around, city officials have erected large poster boards where people can write their thanks to Anthony and the women's suffrage movement more broadly.

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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