I got my sticker, and this lovely souvenir too!
Two pretty big changes from last year. First, we can go to any location in the county. They have the registration info on the database in stead of just in a book at one assigned polling place. That flexibility surely must make it easier for people who go to the wrong place or whatever randomness crops up.
Second, it’s all on machines now instead of the past, where we had to color in the ovals with a Sharpie. You are stepped through a big touch screen kiosk, and they give you this stylus so you don’t have to touch the screen (and they don’t have to disinfect it each time). When you are done, the printer spits out your votes on the card, which you then bring over to the machine that accepts and counts. It seems like a pretty good way of using technology but also having a physical record of each vote that isn’t just stored in vulnerable bits and bytes.