It was a legendary suffragette's home. This year it's a voting site.

"Everyone's so happy to vote and have that privilege, especially to vote early, at such an important place," said Scholer, 24.

"We had hoped to be busy, but Saturday was kind of overwhelming," said Hughes, who said the center had long sought to be a polling site.

The ability to cast their vote in Anthony's home and then continue the pilgrimage to her gravesite highlights the sacredness of the vote.

Though she died in 1906 and didn't live to see it, her work is largely credited with the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, which bans denying the right to vote 'on account of sex.'

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