You vote. He votes. I vote. They vote. We vote.
Is it selfish of me to once again lament the fact that my polling place – albeit a rock-star neon church – does not hand out “I Voted!” stickers? And is it equally selfish of me to resent that one guy who was hogging up the only fancy new electronical voting machine? Yeah – I got stuck with the old school ballots where you have to connect the two halves of an arrow. Is it just me, or does that seem like a broke-ass Spanky and Our Gang way to vote?
“All in favor of keeping Darla out of the He Man Woman Haters Club, take that piece of charcoal and connect the two halves of this arrow. Then give me the high sign.”
Anyway. The point is, I voted. And considering all the problems being reported with those new fangled touch screen voting machines, I should be happy in the fact that at least my vote got counted. Yay for voting!
Filed under: General on November 8th, 2006
November 8th, 2006 at 9:26 am
Are you sure it got counted?
November 8th, 2006 at 9:52 am
It’s all about the sticker. How can a city look itself in the eye and call itself a city if it doesn’t give out “I voted” stickers at the polling places??! That’s cheap, and unconstitutional too. If I’d known you weren’t going to get one, I’d have snuck two so I could send you one.
November 8th, 2006 at 10:02 am
margaret: well, this being chicago and all, i voted twice just to be sure.
shari: see – you get it! it *is* all about the sticker. AND there were reports of polling places in chicago running out of pens because certain locations were only allocated four pens for every six booths. wtf? they made a big production out of handing me my “special” pen… also known as a sharpie. people were just walking away because the wait for a special pen was so long. lame.
November 8th, 2006 at 11:01 am
We get stickers with peaches on them here in Georgia. Best conversation I heard in line at The Polls:
Daughter: “Maaaama, I don’t want to stand in line.”
Mother: “Yeah, well I didn’t want your father to run off with that white trash tramp whore from his gym. Sometimes we don’t get what we want. It’s best to vote when you have the chance.”
True story.
November 8th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
Maybe you should whittle an “I Voted” sign to wear around your neck.
November 8th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
I’m loving all the pictures people are blogging from the polling places. We should relish this fact; it won’t be long before they ban cameras along with pens.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:55 am
heather anne: OMG! She’s right, though. If she didn’t vote “no” on Proposition 92 that gave every man the right to one white trash tramp whore, then she has no one to blame but herself.
cheryl: that would be AWESOME!! I’m getting to work on that immediately!
abigail: well, if I get friendly enough with a couple of the election judges, I’m sure I’ll be able to bring my camera in. In fact, maybe that should be my approach to getting stickers, too…
November 9th, 2006 at 10:59 am
I should totally move to Chicago….I have a lot of bizarre pet peeves, one of which is stickers. Another are the paper bands they use as napkin rings in restaurants – for some odd reason, they totally gross me out.
November 9th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
I’m bummed! I registered in NY, and didn’t realize that I registered too late to vote in this election. My record is forever tarnished…
Also — Jessica, I’m totally grossed out by the cotton on the inside of medicine bottles, so am with you on the bizarre pet peeves.
November 9th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Jenny…at least you had the option of GOING to a polling place. Whatcom County in WA has gone to a mail-in ballot only system this election. Although I’m sure this ensures more equality in voting, it sort of takes away the magic of getting out of my friggin house and going somewhere. First we could have brides mailed to our door, then groceries, then DVDS, and now democracy?
I always enjoyed going to the polling places, even if it meant standing in line, waiting for a fancy booth, or a sacred pen. It was all worth it to get the sticker. So now, not only have I been denied a special place to vote (well, sitting on my toilet and voting was pretty special, but beside the point), I’ve also been denied the sticker.
Maybe we can find a few vintage stickers for sale on ebay?
November 9th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Jenny, See my page! Run, Jen, run!
November 9th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
Aren’t those ballots supposed to be gone? Those were the kind that produced the infamous “hanging chads”. The new machines aren’t all that great. You can’t even surf the net or check blogs.
November 9th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
Is it wrong that I felt doubly proud of myself for voting regular and for voting Les Hoagies over at HeatherAnne’s? I’m easily proud of myself, it would appear. : )
November 9th, 2006 at 10:07 pm
Jess: So… your pet peeve is stickers? That’s just plain weird!
Sandra: Yeah – that cotton is definitely gross. It squeaks in your fingers when you pull it out – makes my teeth hurt!
Quinn: I’m searching ebay as we speak!
piktor: I almost didn’t recognize my cat with the elizabethan collar…
Egan: No, those are the OLD old school punch cards. This is some weird improvement on those – I think the punch cards were more fun, though!
kerrianne: You’re just a votin’ maniac!
November 9th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
Jen, yep – stickers are just one of my pet peeves….they gross me out.
I know it sounds weird but what I can’t understand is the whole cotton thing – how can someone be repulsed by something that is soft and billowy??
November 10th, 2006 at 12:08 am
I love getting my sticker! It’s like when I go to the dentist and they give me my goodie bag with the toothbrush and the teeny tube of toothpaste and a little thing of floss. If they didn’t give me that I would cry.
November 10th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
Jess: I don’t like the way cotton squeaks when you pull it out of the bottle. I also don’t like the way snow sometimes squeaks when you walk on it. But I like stickers just fine.
Don: Oh – that little thing of floss is the BEST! My dentist turned me on to unwaxed, fine floss – and I swear you can’t find it anywhere. I guess that’s his way of keeping me coming in for checkups. He’s like a pusher.
November 10th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
Thank you kindly for the clarification. I stand corrected. The voting machines didn’t allow me to check my blog comments. Crap machines.
November 11th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Jenny, I still can’t finish reading your pacman screed. I always start from the beggining and there’s a point where I can’t go on because of the laughter, most Excellent and Potent Authoress!
November 11th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Dude, it’s like, Saturday or something. My “I voted” sticker is completely sticky-less now and in the garbage. Can’t we be done with voting?? What about pictures of your beautiful cats?? That’s an easy post, right? That’ll be fine. See? I’m so easily pleased!
November 13th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
We don’t get “I voted” stickers here either and it does kind of bum me out. I’d even go for the complete-the-arrow ballots as ours make me flash back to the SATs and GRE. Ugh.