I drive by the cemetery where Susan B. Anthony is buried on my way to work every day. It’s become a thing, as the kids say, for people to visit her grave as we get ready to have our first woman president.
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yellowdog
I read somewhere that the cemetery is staying open late tonight just so that women can go and pay their respects with their ‘I voted’ stickers.
gene108
Gravestone needs some “I voted stickers”. But the day is still young
Old Dan and Little Anne
Mission Accomplished. Excelsior! Go Hillary! In and out in 2 minutes.
gogol's wife
@Old Dan and Little Anne:
Ooh, I hope it’s that fast for me. I’m going to try to do it before other obligations this morning.
Susan K of the Tech Support
I hope that a similar thing happens on the headstone of Ida B. Wells, in Chicago. She’s buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, 1035 East 67th St, Chicago. Here is the Find-a-grave info with a photo of her headstone.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=7862236&PIpi=6667536&utm_content=buffer4396b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Susan K of the Tech Support
Also, if you’re in Mississippi, the grave of Fannie Lou Hamer is located in the Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden, Ruleville, Sunflower County, Mississippi, USA
Find-a-grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hamer&GSfn=fannie&GSmn=lou&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=27&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=19859&df=all&
Mudge
And Mary S. Anthony, her sister, suffragette and first female principal of a Rochester, NY school.
manyakitty
In and out within 10 minutes at my polling place. That includes a stop at the bake sale. Let’s do this!!!
Patricia Kayden
Great to be a member of a Party which is making history back-to-back with its Presidential Nominees. This could never happen on the other side. Trump is proof positive of that.
Gin & Tonic
@manyakitty: Posted below, in and out in less than 10 minutes here in Whitesville. Plenty of people, but everything quiet and efficient. Supporters of a couple of local candidates standing outside with signs in the only sunny spot in the parking lot.
raven
@manyakitty: There is a bake sale at ours too. Damn early voting.
Mike J
Hollande “fait confiance au peuple américain”
“Je fais confiance au peuple américain pour savoir quel est le choix qui correspond le mieux aux valeurs, aux principes, à la liberté, à cette relation avec la France et avec l’Europe”,
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
After some minor excitement when the scanner had an issue, things are once again running smoothly at the poll where I’m an observer. About 110 people have voted, I heard one of the poll workers announce.
OzarkHillbilly
John is big footing every one today.
manyakitty
@Gin & Tonic:
@raven:
Excellent. Thank Cthulhu for this joint. It’s keeping me sane! I don’t comment a lot, but I read just about everything, and it’s good to know I’m not alone.
Alain the site fixer
Not wearing a pantsuit as I’m a guy, but am going to vote in white pants and shirt with kickin’ old school wingtip Doc Martens.
Let’s do this for our Grandmothers and great Grandmothers!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
After some minor excitement when the scanner had an issue, things are once again running smoothly at the poll where I’m an observer. About 110 people have voted, I heard one of the poll workers announce.
cleek
i spent dozens of Sunday afternoons in 1993-95 wandering around in the hilly part of Mt Hope cemetery.
it’s one of my favorite places in the whole world.
FlipYrWhig
@Susan K of the Tech Support: I just had my class read Ida B. Wells. Hair-raising yet inspiring stuff.
MCA1
Just exercised my suburban white privilege to not wait in line while voting. One more banked for Hillary. I feel better about this election having now had the chance to participate. Still terrified by what the other candidate’s presence says about my country, but I’ll get over it as long as I get to say Madame President Elect tomorrow.
Florida frog
Here in Phnom Penh for the last couple of weeks visiting a friend at the embassy. We will have on our best party clothes in a few hours as US citizens and Cambodians alike celebrate Hillary’s historic victory. All through the past month in SE Asia locals and Europeans have asked us, you’re not really going to elect Trump are you? I truly believe the rest of the world is mystified. Just a few more hours and the world will sigh with relief.
kindness
I wish the Susan B Anthony List people hadn’t userped her name. Sure, I can believe Susan B didn’t like abortion but the idea that that is what she stood for in her life makes a mockery of her actual life.
cynthia ackerman
What a contrast with Drumph saying this a.m. that if he loses, his campaign will have been “the biggest waste of time in (his) life.”
Christ what an asshole.
MCA1
@cynthia ackerman: That’s (yet another example of) high pressure salesman talk. Attempting to guilt you into closing the purchase, by making you feel blame and shaming you for having “wasted their time” when there are plenty of other customers out on the sales floor they could have been talking to instead.
The Golux
@cynthia ackerman:
The biggest waste of time for the biggest waste of skin on the planet.
cynthia ackerman
@MCA1: I think it’s sleazier than that. Just a sociopathic narcissist who doesn’t think twice about insulting the folks who have brought him this far. Christ what an asshole.
liberal
@cynthia ackerman: sounds like Hitler at the end, saying the German people failed him.