‘I voted’ stickers are a thing of the past, but we’ll never forget them
For Margaret Steenson, voting was an event: At her polling place, she filled in the circles, slid the ballot into the machine and then, like her neighbors, signed a wall. Afterward, she got her little oval with the red, white and blue flag, the badge of honor that proudly read “I voted.”
“It shows that I’m involved, and it reminds other people to vote,” Steenson told this reporter while trapped in line for the Wet Buns food truck in Occidental Park on a Friday afternoon.
That sticker. ...