In our state we get little round stickers that say “I voted!”
[And if you give blood, you get a rectangular sticker that says “Be nice to me! I gave blood today!”
I love stickers!]
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whiterabbit, since I have no idea where you live (nothing listed on your profile), there is a one in 50 chance you are in Florida. Florida is the first state where I have had to use a paper punch rather than the machine with the curtain (ever notice they had the ugliest designs - the one back home were lime green, yellow and brown plaid).
In any case, voter turnout was quite heavy this morning. I arrived at the polling place at 7:10 am and there were 100 people in line outside the building, and the inside was well packed. (Previous elections had about 10 people total at that time.) Very organized crew this year, and when I got to the “Last Name A-C/D-F/G-J/etc.” tables, there was no one in my line! Yahoo! Shaved about 10 minutes off my time, and I was out of there in another 5 (I had everything written out ahead of time).
I am in such a good mood after voting, I wish I could go give blood/pharesis and just be so over-the-top happy!! (Doc says no for awhile. D@mn.)
Tabithina claims:
Paper? You got paper? I went to the polls and they just had two urns and a stack of potsherds… 
I was living in New Mexico when I turned 18, and registered as a Republican because, in an overwhelmingly-Democratic state, I figured I could make a bigger difference messin’ with the Elephants. When I voted in the Republican primary, they had actual voting booths. No levers, though; as I recall, there was a big sheet of touchpad-style buttons. When you pushed the buttons for your candidates, a light went on next to their name, and you could change if you wanted. When you were done, you pushed the big red button at the bottom (ka-CHUNK), and the machine counted your votes and reset itself for the next person. When it was time for the presidential election that year, however, I was away at college, and thus voted absentee for my first election.
Now I’m here in Lubbock, and technology has apparently bypassed this town. We have paper ballots that you fill in with a #2 pencil and drop in a box. Whee. Somehow, the little room behind the curtain seems so much more official.
i just got home from voting. i was numberr 337!!! i didn’t even know there were that many people in my little voting area. how many people are they packing into a row home these days?? people were still coming in. they said if you were in line by 8pm you would get to vote no matter what time you got to the lever machine. they had rows of chairs ready for people. alas, no sticker though.
I got two stickers! (haha! Take that tax-payers!)
I’m in Georgia. And no, I’m not a native, that’s why I don’t have an accent. Though I do say “ya’ll.” 
Does it bug anybody else when there’s only one name to vote for? Like when there’s an incumbent that nobody had the guts to run against?
Edward the Head, we have the exact same “technology” here in beautiful Somerville, Massachusetts (gateway to Medford!) Ten ballot questions, sheesh. No curtains either. I’ve never had a chance to use a machine because Cambridge where I lived before has the stylus deal.
Filling in the little arrows is OK, but the half-slip things they gave us to cover them up as we waited in line to check out didn’t cover the top half of the ballot so your vote was hanging out for all to see. How embarrasing.
Spider Woman, you have to give your name before they’ll give you a ballot and before you can hand it in, and they cross your name off a list of all the voters. So they don’t give you a sticker because if you come in again they’ll know you’ve been there. BTW, I LOVE your sig with the spider! I can hardly wait to see what she’s doing next!