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Elected officials are calling on Trump to rescind the pardon because, as Gordon argue, it overrides Anthony's wishes.

At a press conference outside the Susan B. Anthony Museum and Home Tuesday, New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul emphasized that notion, saying Anthony was \"guilty of nothing.\"

\"I was deeply troubled to learn that Trump went ahead and treated her like a criminal,\" Hochul said. \"She was proud of her arrest to draw attention to the cause for women's rights, and never paid her fine. Let her Rest in Peace.\"

As highest ranking woman elected official in New York and on behalf of Susan B. Anthony’s legacy we demand Trump rescind his pardon.

She was proud of her arrest to draw attention to the cause for women’s rights, and never paid her fine. Let her Rest In Peace, @realDonaldTrump.

— Kathy Hochul (@LtGovHochulNY) August 18, 2020

Following Hochul, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren agreed that Anthony wouldn't have wanted the pardon and called on Trump to rescind his action.

Even Trump later Tuesday appeared to acknowledge that Anthony may not have wanted a pardon, noting that she secured pardons for election inspectors who aided her, but not herself.

\"I actually asked the other day and they were talking about Susan B. Anthony, and she did that for other people and she didn't want herself included. She wasn't included in the pardon from many years ago,\" Trump said in Arizona. \"It's been very, very popular.\"

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At least one House Democrat called out Trump for the symbolic gesture that appeared aimed, at least in part, at female voters he is looking to court ahead of the election -- as polls show the demographic currently prefers former Vice President Joe Biden.

\"Pathetic,\" Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., wrote Tuesday on Twitter. \"Trump pardons a woman who has been dead for over 100 years to show his commitment to women. Suburban women aren't dumb. We are all insulted.\"

Honoring Anthony

While Hughes agreed that Trump should consider rescinding the pardon, she said a better way to honor Anthony is through combatting voter suppression and passing the Voting Rights Act.

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PHOTO: Members of the American National Woman Suffrage Association marching from Pennsylvania Terminal to their headquarters, Aug. 28, 1920.
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\"We would be much more interested in using this moment -- or having the president use this moment -- to talk about voting rights and the way that people are still being denied access to the ballot,\" Hughes said. \"Rather than putting our energy into asking the president to rescind his action, what if we instead called attention to voter suppression across the United States? That would presumably be a better way to honor Anthony's legacy.\"

She said it's \"irony on irony\" that Anthony's pardon comes amid Trump's relentless claims, without evidence, of widespread fraud if there is universal mail-in voting in November's election.

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