I voted, but didn’t get the sticker.
I don’t know why. They usually hand them out as you exit, but nobody gave one to me—voter #40 in my precinct. See how on-the-ball I was? Dedicated to getting to the polling place bright and early?
Forced to walk by a table covered in cookies and pastries for the election workers, a sticker would have been a small consolation. I could have taken it to Starbucks and Chik-fil-a and Krispie Kreme for free food!
My husband got a sticker, my sister-in-law got a sticker, and everybody else in the Denver Metro area got a sticker. Good turnout, judging by the STICKERS on everyone else’s shirts.
But I didn’t. And perhaps I can blame hormones, but it really made me mad all day long. I went around telling people my story of voting, but not getting my sticker. Some sympathetic listeners offered me their stickers, but I couldn’t take it from them. I knew they’d feel naked without it.
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The results from my kids’ school’s mock election:
McCain: 273
Obama: 88
Hmmmm.
Obama won by a landslide at my boys’ school! I didn’t get a sticker either- the lady gave it to Gray!
Steph
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Probably too late now for you to go your treats, but turns out you can get any of those goodies even without the sticker because it’s illegal for businesses to offer incentives for voting. They quickly changed their tune to “treats for everyone” to avoid problems.
By the way, we don’t get stickers here in Oregon because all our voting is done by mail. Very handy living in our sticker-free society 🙂
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wait – I am mad too. no stickers in Pa either… bummer! And I totally spaced about my free starbuck’s coffee. double bummer.
Mommie Blogs’s last blog post..our votes are in…
Yeah, here in NJ I didn’t get a sticker either. In my son’s school Obama beat McCain by a landslide. Seems to be the way NJ is going as well.
I had to ask for a sticker. I wasn’t leaving until the forked on over.
My daughter is running around saying “Prince Barack Obama” – which scares me a little…
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I got my sticker, and thought, “What good is a sticker? Is it supposed to help me remember that I already voted?” and stuck it on my camera bag and forgot about it. Doubt I missed out on free food since I voted early anyway. It’s all ho-hum until Election Day.
McCain won 100% of the votes at my son’s school. Then again, we homeschool, and he’s the only student, so I don’t think we can make any (accurate) predictions based on that poll.
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And do you know you could have gotten all sorts of free stuff with that sticker?
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I am in Oregon too. No sticker and I voted last week. Oregon doesn’t allow voting incentives but I hear some states do?
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I got a sticker.
Then Teyla ate it.
Could be an allegory, if I weren’t so sleep-deprived.
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For the record, the line at my neighborhood Chick-fil-A was way longer than the line at my neighborhood polling place. My sticker didn’t do my a bit of good.
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Oh, I’m so sorry. You deserved that sticker. (I got one.) Mmmmm….coffee.
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I’ll send you mine. It’s lost it’s stickiness because it is covered in sweater lint.
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It was a die at my daughter’s preschool.
midlife mommy’s last blog post..Campaign Messages (In My Kitchen)
I didn’t get one either. And I totally thought about that as I walked out! I had no idea I was so dependent on it:)
I read your above post. Wow. I’m totally into your experiment. I can’t wait to find out how long you can go. And your point is not lost – the world continues to turn this morning…
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I too can’t wait to see how long you can go.
McCain won by a landslide at the pediatricians office.
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I’m so impressed that you’ve managed to come this far without finding out who the President-elect is! Can’t wait to see how far you’ll go. Not that you’re checking out blogs, but don’t visit me until you want to know, because I seem to recall posting about the election on at least one of them!
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