Guilt Trip “I Voted” Stickers

I was listening to the Nightside Project on KSL when one of the radio hosts (I don’t know his name) said he hates it when he sees people wearing the “I voted” stickers. He listed a number of reasons, but the one I got a kick out of was basically that the people who don’t know it’s election day are the last ones you want to remind to show up at the polls. Funny, but true.

So anyway, I came up with these sometimes humorous “I voted” sticker parodies as pleasant way to guilt trip sheeple who show up at the polls without doing any homework:

In case it wasn’t blazingly obvious, my overall point is that voting is NOT your civic duty. Voting smart is your civic duty. Voting smart takes a lot of time, thought, and research. Voting just for the sake of voting is quick, effortless, and counter-productive; it skews the numbers away from dedicated citizens who really did do their homework.

Hopefully these tongue-in-cheek “I voted” stickers are fun way to remind people to do some serious research before hitting the polls. Feel free to forward them to friends and family, or anyone you feel may be just flying by the seat of their pants! :)

And no; watching Oprah, SNL, and Fox News does not count as research.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for Voting Smart!

UPDATE

Some others I have thought of:

I (unwittingly) voted for more of the same (change vote)
I voted for a socialist in mainstream clothing (major-party vote)
I voted because it was on my way (convenient vote)
I voted exactly how the MSM wanted me to vote (sheeple vote)
I voted and all I got was this lousy sticker (freebie vote)
I voted without ever having read the constitution (public ed vote)
I voted how the source code made me (Diebold vote)
I voted to reinforce the illusion of liberty (depressing vote)
I voted for the guy who worships like me (blind faith vote)
I voted because I’m better than you (ego vote)
I voted because it makes me feel good (insecure vote)
I voted because some people don’t have maps (hot chick vote)
I voted based on one issue only (one-dimensional vote)
I voted for all the candidates (Florida vote)
I voted despite being dead for 50 years (electoral shenanigans vote)

Please post your own funny or poignant “I Voted” stickers in the comments!

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categories Nerdiness, Politics | datetime November 4, 2008 10:10 am

18 Comments

  • By Connor, November 4, 2008 @ 7:13 am

    Oh man, these are great! You should put them up on cafepress.com so people can print them up and hand them out. :)

  • By Luke, November 4, 2008 @ 7:40 am

    I wish the handsome guy was still in the race! Now I have to vote for someone because of a chain letter….

  • By Luke, November 4, 2008 @ 8:05 am

    If you’re going to rule out Fox News as real research, then you gotta rule out the other ones too! While you’re at it you might as well rule out %97.99 of the internet too.

    Personally, I think Fox News is a great research tool. They aired the same debates as everyone else, interviewed the same candidates, and covered both conventions.

    Obviously they are still out to get ratings, so your boy Baldwin isn’t gonna get as much time as he should have (if any).

  • By Alex Kirry from Nightside, November 4, 2008 @ 8:35 am

    Hey, These are fantastic, Jordan. And for the record I’m STILL not going to wear that sticker today. Great creativity. ALEX.

  • By Julie, November 4, 2008 @ 8:35 am

    Did you say someone was going to give away something for free? I love free. I better find out who that is and vote for him.

  • By Jordy, November 4, 2008 @ 10:17 am

    @ Alex – Thanks for being the impetus for the idea. Sorry I couldn’t remember your name. It was pretty late. :)

  • By Lonnie Olson, November 4, 2008 @ 10:21 am

    Your mention of Oprah in the same sentence as SNL and Fox News is dishonest.

    The Oprah show has not aired any political episodes recently. None of the candidates, wives, or other representatives of candidates have been on the show in the past year. All discussion of politics is quickly squashed due to Oprah’s insistence of the show not being a political platform for any candidate.

    Yes, Oprah did say she was supporting Obama, *off-air*. But besides acknowledging it a few times on air (when asked), it was quickly moved back to the topic.

  • By Jordy, November 4, 2008 @ 10:33 am

    @ Lonnie – Not ‘dishonest’, ‘tongue-in-cheek’. The whole point is that people sometimes vote on the most silly of things. An Oprah endorsement (on or off the air) doubtlessly won Barack some votes of people who did no research whatsoever. It fits perfectly. I would have said the same thing had she endorsed John McCain, or anybody.

  • By Igor, November 4, 2008 @ 11:49 am

    I voted because Facebook told me to

  • By Lonnie Olson, November 4, 2008 @ 12:00 pm

    Ok, That makes more sense. I agree with your overall point. I’m just a big Oprah fan. :)

    Good Job.

  • By Luke, November 4, 2008 @ 12:35 pm

    I voted because I thought the stickers was a scratch and sniff…. those are awesome!

  • By Jordy, November 4, 2008 @ 12:52 pm

    I voted for the free Ben and Jerry’s (fat hippie vote)

  • By Jordy, November 4, 2008 @ 12:55 pm

    I voted for increased taxes (masacist vote)

  • By Paul Jones, November 4, 2008 @ 1:35 pm

    One thing I like to do is vote against all the standing judges.

    I figure they need a reminder that it’s not a sinecure.

  • By Thomas W. Clay, November 4, 2008 @ 4:00 pm

    I voted because the little voices told me to (the “I’m schizophrenic and so am I” contingent”)

  • By Bryan Kingsford, November 5, 2008 @ 2:58 pm

    Great post! I liked something you said so much I submitted it as my first quote in a Facebook application I just released called Words of Wisdom. Take a look.

    http://apps.facebook.com/bkingsf-wow/?quote=1

    -Bryan

  • By Jordy, November 5, 2008 @ 3:26 pm

    @ Bryan – Thanks. What an honor. :)

  • By Lindsay, November 12, 2008 @ 7:12 pm

    You need to put these on shirts and sell them, hilarious!

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