{"id":20242,"date":"2024-11-04T10:29:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?p=20242"},"modified":"2024-11-04T10:29:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:29:36","slug":"famous-suffragist-susan-b-anthonys-home-will-serve-as-a-polling-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2024\/11\/famous-suffragist-susan-b-anthonys-home-will-serve-as-a-polling-place.html","title":{"rendered":"Famous Suffragist Susan B. Anthony\u2019s Home will Serve as a Polling Place"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After years of seeking to be a polling place, famous suffragist Susan B. Anthony\u2019s home in Rochester, NY will serve as a polling place for early voting of the 2024 presidential election. It is a \u201cfull circle\u201d event, considering Anthony was arrested in 1872 for casting her vote for president. The parlor of the historic place is the same place she was informed she must go downtown to be arrested. Anthony would later be fined $100<\/a>, which she refused to pay. In her defense, she made a passionate plea:<\/a> \u201cIt shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen’s rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny.\u201d<\/p>\n

The home has since become a National Historic Landmark and museum. \u201cThe point wasn\u2019t to celebrate this great icon of Susan B. Anthony. It was about the cause to which she dedicated her whole life and that we believe is still essential and important. This is right in line with our mission,\u201d said<\/a> Deborah L. Hughes, president and CEO of the Susan B. Anthony Museum & House.<\/p>\n

Serving as a polling place has been a dream since 2020. The house, however, faced a number of setbacks as it pursued polling place status, including the fact that the home was not built to contain large groups of people at a time. The home\u2019s carriage house was remodeled with a second door to accommodate state election officials\u2019 desires for a second exit as a safety measure. When it was finally able to be used for early voting in New York in March 2024, parking regulations had to be lifted to accommodate visitors to the site. Early voting for the presidential election will run until November 3. 721 people voted at the site\u2019s first day of being open for the race between Kamala Harris and Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

Election laws for early voting permit early voters to choose where they vote rather than being limited to their assigned polling station, meaning the site has been especially popular amongst women, making a sort of \u201cpilgrimage\u201d to the home of one of the main women responsible for the eventual passing of the 19th<\/sup> Amendment, giving women the right to vote. \u201cIt\u2019s just so cool to be able to vote at the place where Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting,\u201d said Rebecca McGinnis. \u201cIt\u2019s very full circle. I think about my great-grandmother coming here and not being able to vote at all, and now her great-great-granddaughter is standing in the place where Susan B. Anthony fought for women\u2019s rights.\u201d Anthony didn\u2019t live to see her dream realized when the 19th<\/sup> Amendment was passed in 1920, 14 years after she died. She is buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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