Voting Process & Stickers NOT Political

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

We don't get stickers. We get a "'lo".

 

[Luv Bunnies]

I get my ballot by mail in California and it includes a sticker. I prefer to take it to a drop-box rather than mailing it back. My sister took hers to a ballot drop location and there were volunteers there handing out stickers. So now she has two!

 

[Anthony1971]

Voted had to sign an IPAD I was fine my signature matched… My wife did not. She went to take out her ID and they stopped her as they did not want to see it nor would they accept it… they gave her a second chance and 2 letters matched so they agreed to let her vote the rest was fill out and put through a scanner.

 

[jimmymc]

I signed up to get both primary and main election mail-in ballots back in Spring. They showed up, and I dropped them off at city hall. The main election ballot came with a plain "I voted" sticker. I'm in Michigan, but I don't think the special ones were printed early enough.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Now I know why we get those “I Voted” stickers.
I’ll admit that generally speaking I’m not a “proclaimer to the world” kind of person. No Bowie iPhone cover, Disney icons on clothing, Julia Child cookbook stand, etc.

Yesterday, one of my stickers was sitting on a workspace table and it started a conversation about voting with one of my home attendants. It was very enlightening and I think I’ll display my sticker more prominently in the future.

 

[DisneyHardin]

We vote using a scantron ballot here. We bubble it in and then feed it into the scantron reader. We don't get stickers, we get bracelets. I haven't voted yet - I am off Tuesday, so I am just going to vote then.

 

[sam_gordon]

We vote using a scantron ballot here. We bubble it in and then feed it into the scantron reader. We don't get stickers, we get bracelets. I haven't voted yet - I am off Tuesday, so I am just going to vote then.

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Interesting that it (process and stickers) varies even within the same state.

 

[DisneyHardin]

Interesting that it (process and stickers) varies even within the same state.

Definitely. When I moved to Louisville from a smaller town I was quite surprised to see the scantrons when I voted the first time. In the town I came from, we had actual voting booths with the little curtain and you went in and it was electronic, so I just assumed that's how it was everywhere. I guess you can move a lot more people through more quickly with the scantrons than if we all had to wait in line to go in the booth.

 

[pezgirlroy]

I live in one of the few states that does not allow early voting so will be voting tomorrow morning. We do have really fun stickers though (designed by school kids)

 

[Skywalker3]

Going tomorrow morning, Election Day. We do get some time off from work for that. Taking DD, 20, to vote for the first time! Hope no issues , and lines won't be too long. Usually we get stickers, so we'll see.

 

[cedricandsophie]

I went to our town hall twice for voting. For me I went a week ago and there was no line at all. The second time I took my disabled daughter to vote. The line was about 50 people. But it moved quickly. The registration table people always announce someone voting for the first time and everyone applauds. This one young man had his citizenship papers and he had just become a citizen very recently. It was so sweet. He was very proud

When President Obama ran the first time (mot political Just a fact) there was a very elderly black wonan waiting to vote in a long line. Someone at the front said ma’am please come forward and we all agreed. As she walked past me with her cane our line applauded and I cried just imaging how she felt to be voting for a black man for the very first time in her long life (we are heavily democratic area so agsin not political just a fact).

My daughter has Down syndrome and has voted every time since she was old enough. She knows how important it is.

 

[kanerf]

Mail in ballot in PA. They received it last week. They never provide you with stickers.

 

[kdonnel]

We mark our ballot using a large digital tablet/kiosk.

After you confirm your selections an attached printer prints out your marked ballot.

Again you confirm your selections on the paper ballot since that is your real ballot.

The final step is to feed it into a scanner that looks suspiciously like a shredder on the top of a garbage bin.

Then you get one of two stickers that have been used for years. I assume they got a great deal buying in bulk.

 

[fla4fun]

Voted had to sign an IPAD I was fine my signature matched… My wife did not. She went to take out her ID and they stopped her as they did not want to see it nor would they accept it… they gave her a second chance and 2 letters matched so they agreed to let her vote the rest was fill out and put through a scanner.

I would be in trouble having to sign an iPad. I am left handed and any time I have to sign on a tablet or mobile device my signature looks nothing like it does when signing on paper. There’s usually no way to rest or support my hand without affecting the screen.

 

[bcla]

Voted by mail - frankly the first time although I previously voted in person even with a ballot mailed to me. I just ignored the previous mail ballots sent to me so there was nothing illegal on my part.

There was an I Voted sticker in the envelope with the ballot. Dropped it off at a county drop box and verified that it was received and not rejected (for a bad signature match).

I remember when my wife worked as an election worker and their package had a whole bunch of those stickers in different languages. They workers would have otherwise just dumped them, so my wife took them home and for a while I was removing them from furniture because our then two year old went crazy with them.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I live in one of the few states that does not allow early voting so will be voting tomorrow morning. We do have really fun stickers though (designed by school kids)

Just curious-what state is that? When we lived in Massachusetts, DH travelled internationally and was often gone for weeks. One year he was going to miss voting day and there was no option, as I remember. Early voting? NO! Absentee ballot took so much-his boss had to write a letter! Then we moved to Texas, where we were grocery shopping one day, a couple weeks before an election, and there was a sign up for early voting there. Everyone was so surprised when we called back to our family in Massachusetts to tell them that we'd voted, in HEB!

 

[bcla]

Definitely. When I moved to Louisville from a smaller town I was quite surprised to see the scantrons when I voted the first time. In the town I came from, we had actual voting booths with the little curtain and you went in and it was electronic, so I just assumed that's how it was everywhere. I guess you can move a lot more people through more quickly with the scantrons than if we all had to wait in line to go in the booth.

I don't know about touchscreen, if that's what you're saying. I remember waiting for someone to program one for my ballot type, and that could take a while. And the first time I'd ever tried using one they had one heck of a time trying to get the machine to work as it was just a backup for blind or otherwise disabled voters who had problems filling out an optical scan ballot.

 

[DisneyHardin]

I don't know about touchscreen, if that's what you're saying. I remember waiting for someone to program one for my ballot type, and that could take a while. And the first time I'd ever tried using one they had one heck of a time trying to get the machine to work as it was just a backup for blind or otherwise disabled voters who had problems filling out an optical scan ballot.

It wasn't touch screen, it was just electronic. There were buttons next to the names that you pressed and then when you finished you pushed the big "Vote" button at the bottom.

 

[ncc1701]

We have be we been voting by mail for years . Mail in ballot was dropped off in one of the County drop boxes. About a week later got our "I Voted by Mail". NJ needs to step up their sticker game.

 

[sam_gordon]

We have be we been voting by mail for years . Mail in ballot was dropped off in one of the County drop boxes. About a week later got our "I Voted by Mail". NJ needs to step up their sticker game.View attachment 909899

Thats county specific. I think thats pretty good.