# How cool is your 'I voted' sticker? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061 "2020-10-27T20:43:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/21 "2020-10-28T13:20:35Z")
It’s not cool at all, but I stuck it on the pumpkin I decorated as Trump, next to the one I decorated as Pence (you can tell it’s him, despite the bland expression, by the giant fly in his hair.) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/22 "2020-10-28T13:22:39Z")
I dropped off my ballot in the box outside of the county library after hours with no one around. I felt like a spy using a dead drop. No sticker. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/23 "2020-10-28T16:10:26Z")
I voted in NY, but my sticker was plain. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/24 "2020-10-28T19:24:45Z")
The obituaries aren’t on the front page. So, not cool enough. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/25 "2020-10-28T19:28:07Z")
I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![thdudescar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thdudescar/32/4638_2.png) [@thdudescar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thdudescar)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/26 "2020-10-28T19:42:13Z")
I wasn’t offered one, nor would I have taken it. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/27 "2020-10-28T19:53:38Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > California: Mail-in ballots were sent to ALL registered voters (and also to all their ancestors and their pets, depending on who you believe 🙄 ). Included with each such mailing was a sheet of instructions, which had the “I voted” sticker on it. > > So I guess we are supposed to be on our honor to not display that sticker until we actually vote. > > It’s a very plain simple un-interesting generic “I voted” sticker. > > [Picture of similar sticker, along with “history of” story.](https://time.com/4541760/i-voted-sticker-history-origins/) That’s not what we got. Ours is a big circle about three inches across with I Voted (the v a check mark), and “I voted” in tiny print in seven other languages, and then two red and one white stripe and three stars, all on a blue background. We live in California. ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/28 "2020-10-28T23:18:12Z")
No sticker for me. But I got to keep the pen. > **[20201028\_171504.jpg](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QGRAALB46lnqb5hw4j-W5G7FJK80aI9m/view?usp=sharing)** > > Google Drive file. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/29 "2020-10-28T23:25:11Z")
That’s cool and useful. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/30 "2020-10-29T00:14:24Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I was only vaguely aware of “I voted” stickers until all the chatter this year. I guess Washington never had them, or I was otherwise oblivious. Maybe I’ll create my own. Because we’re mail in - the stickers are virtual: [https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/downloadableivotedsticker.aspx](https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/downloadableivotedsticker.aspx) [Digital stickers - King County, Washington](https://kingcounty.gov/depts/elections/education-and-outreach/social-media-toolkit/digital-stickers.aspx) (multiple languages) ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/31 "2020-10-29T02:55:58Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > The wait was worth if just for this cool sticker. Hey, I voted in New York State! How come I didn’t get one of those? All I got was the same old generic sticker (like the one in Senegoid’s post #16), same as they’ve been handing out for years. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/32 "2020-10-29T12:01:44Z")
The sticker for Washington DC has Frederick Douglas on it. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/33 "2020-10-29T15:37:46Z")
Mine is just a boring white oval with a flag and “I voted in Douglas County” (KS). It’s the same sticker they’ve been giving out for years. We voted by mail but they put a sticker in the envelope with our ballots. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/34 "2020-10-29T19:15:46Z")
I went to Etsy and got a custom VOTE plate for the front of my car. I voted absentee weeks ago, so no sticker. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/35 "2020-10-29T20:25:27Z")
> [@SoToasty](#): > > No sticker for me. But I got to keep the pen. Oh, yeah, I signed the registry and they told me to keep the pen. But it was just an Office Depot disposable. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/36 "2020-10-30T04:45:49Z")
I had to sign a consent form to get my flu shot, and all I got to keep was a little 3-inch golf pencil. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/37 "2020-10-30T09:49:39Z")
> [@Napier](#): > > The obituaries aren’t on the front page. So, not cool enough. > [@Biggirl](#): > > I don’t get it. Sorry, that wasn’t a very good joke. It meant “what would be really cool would be if voting meant I suddenly saw a very important obituary, one that would appear as the big headline on the front page rather than buried deep inside the paper, and getting a little sticker instead isn’t cool enough.” Based on an anecdote about somebody famous I can’t remember, who despised the President (I think). He and a friend are walking down the street and he stops to look at the newspaper displayed inside a vending machine. Friend asks, “What are you doing?” “I’m checking the obituaries.” “But the obituaries aren’t on the front page.” “The one I’m checking for will be.” I’m in a very bad mood, having spent much of yesterday dealing with Trump’s “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping” which outlaws talking about privilege and bias in companies that have federal government contracts after November 21. So, it was a dumb joke, and I shouldn’t have injected regicide into the conversation. I’m sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/38 "2020-10-30T17:29:04Z")
I also got the California plain “I voted” sticker. I stuck it to my laptop. Usually I just put it on my shirt and then the trash. This year I wanted it somewhere more permanent. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/39 "2020-10-30T20:25:48Z")
No need to apologize, I really didn’t get it. And. . . still don’t. But that’s because I’m not familiar with the set up. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061/40 "2020-10-31T12:19:03Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I also got the California plain “I voted” sticker. I stuck it to my laptop. Usually I just put it on my shirt and then the trash. This year I wanted it somewhere more permanent I put them on our bird’s travel cage (a plexiglass cube). I peel off the old one and put on the new. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-your-i-voted-sticker/924061.md?page=3)