On Election Day, ‘I Voted’ stickers cover Susan B. Anthony’s grave in Rochester, N.Y.

Your local polling place isn’t the only location where you’ll encounter lines on election day. Voters Tuesday lined up at Susan B. Anthony’s grave in Rochester, N.Y.

Mount Hope Cemetery extended visitor hours to accommodate all who want to say thanks to the women’s rights icon. The grave has been decorated with ‘I Voted’ stickers, American flags and yellow roses, a women’s suffrage movement symbol. You can see lots of photos posted on the cemetery’s Facebook page.

“Visiting Susan B. Anthony’s grave site has become Election Day rite of passage for many citizens in Rochester, and with this year’s historically significant election it seems right to extend that opportunity until the polls close,” Mayor Lovely A. Warren says on the Friends of Mt. Hope website.

The cemetery usually closes at 5 p.m., but hours have been extended to 9 p.m. Tuesday.

But travelers can visit anytime to the site founded in 1838. It claims the title “America’s first municipal Victorian cemetery.” Former slave-turned-abolitionist Frederick Douglass is buried here too.

But back to Anthony. The woman who fought for the right to vote never got to do so legally. (She was found guilty of illegal voting after casting a ballot in 1872.)

And though some feel it’s a day to say thanks to Anthony, others posted tweets saying she didn’t advocate for the rights of black women.

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