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.)
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.
I voted in NY, but my sticker was plain.
The obituaries aren’t on the front page. So, not cool enough.
I don’t get it.
I wasn’t offered one, nor would I have taken it.
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.
No sticker for me. But I got to keep the pen.
That’s cool and useful.
Because we’re mail in - the stickers are virtual:
https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/downloadableivotedsticker.aspx
Digital stickers - King County, Washington (multiple languages)
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.
The sticker for Washington DC has Frederick Douglas on it.
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.
I went to Etsy and got a custom VOTE plate for the front of my car. I voted absentee weeks ago, so no sticker.
Oh, yeah, I signed the registry and they told me to keep the pen. But it was just an Office Depot disposable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I put them on our bird’s travel cage (a plexiglass cube). I peel off the old one and put on the new.