Susan B. Anthony makes a cameo in Clinton win

New York voted decisively for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s primary, and some New Yorkers used their "I voted" stickers to thank the person who gave women the vote.

More than a dozen voters placed their “I voted” stickers on Susan B. Anthony’s grave in upstate Rochester after casting their ballots, honoring the suffragette’s long-ago campaign for women’s right to vote.

Anthony led the fight in the 1800s for a woman’s right to cast her own ballot, even after she was arrested and convicted for illegally voting in Rochester in 1872. An amendment she helped propose eventually became the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, though she died 14 years before its ratification in 1920.

Clinton, who represented New York as a senator from 2001 to 2009, inched closer to the Democratic party’s nomination with Tuesday’s win. Clinton would be the first female nominee of a major American political party.

Voters graced Anthony’s tombstone with “I voted” stickers after the 2014 midterms, when Rochester resident Sarah Jane McPike said that she regularly brings flowers to the reformer’s grave after she casts her ballot.

“It is important to me that, regardless of politics and sides, that as a woman -- especially a single mother, female business owner -- that I pay my respects to the woman who fought for my freedom and my right to vote,” she told the Huffington Post at the time.

This story was originally published April 20, 2016 at 8:50 AM with the headline "Susan B. Anthony makes a cameo in Clinton win."