Help me with English "worth it alone to go"?

[Steve Kim]

Here's link to the article I've read.
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/patrick-schwar...00320.html

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The part I need your help is:
The 19-year-old college freshman voted for the first time Nov. 6 and spoke about the milestone with his nearly 67,000 Twitter followers. "Hope y'all go out and vote," the Hudson Jeans model wrote. "Getting the 'I Voted' sticker is worth it alone to go."
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Q1) What does "Getting the 'I Voted' sticker is worth it alone to go" mean? does it simply mean "getting the 'I voted' sticker is worth going to vote"??
If it was "Getting the 'I Voted' sticker is worth spending your time as long as three hours in voter line", it would be clear what it means.....(even if it can sound silly,lol)
"worth it alone to go"... what does it mean anyway?

Please offer a bunch of examples~!

This is my first time to know that Americans get 'I voted' sticker for voting, in my country there's no way to prove I voted so we take a picture of ourselves in front of such places as school or public building, where the voting's happening. to prove it.
I hope the rule for the sticker would be passing in my country so near future I get one of my own,lol

Thank you~!

[bluebellbkk]

It's a badly constructed sentence, but you guessed the correct meaning: It's difficult and inconvenient to go [and vote], but it's worth it for the sticker alone / it's worth it, just to get the sticker.

Even getting just the sticker is worth the hassle.

[Ms. Worth]

The sentence is poorly written because it had to be jammed into a tweet.
Changing the location of "alone" would improve the sentence, like this:
"Getting the 'I Voted' sticker is alone worth it to go."
And revising it completely would be even better, like this:
"Getting the 'I Voted' sticker alone made it worthwhile to go."

The meaning is:
Just getting the sticker made it worthwhile to go to the polls.
The sticker alone made the trip worthwhile.
All by itself just getting the sticker made it worth it to go (to go to the polls to vote).

You're right with the alternate sentence you suggest:
"Getting the 'I Voted' sticker alone is worth spending your time -- as long as three hours -- in line to vote."
That's what "to go" means in the tweet -- "going to the polls to vote."

The "alone" part means that even if it got you nothing else, going to vote was worth it because of the cool "I voted" sticker they give you.
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The "I voted" sticker is not an official law or rule.
Anyone can have a bunch printed and then pass them out anywhere they want to.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=...kers&btnK=
This year, a lot of poll workers had them printed and gave them to voters.
Lots of polling places didn't have them because nobody thought about getting any printed in advance.

You can start the same fad in your country.
If you do, make sure the press knows it's you -- you will be famous!
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Other examples of "alone" used to mean "sufficient; enough in itself; needing nothing more":
You can notice that "alone" is rather difficult to place in some sentences. If that is the case, it is usually best just to give up and revise the sentence.

> The cherry pie alone proved that Mrs Wilson was an excellent cook.
(You don't even have to sample any more of her cooking to know this.)
> Her screechy laughter alone made us want to avoid her.
(We didn't have to experience any more of her annoying habits to know we didn't like her.)
> The life-long friendships you build in college alone make it worth it to attend.
(Even if you didn't get anything else out of it, the friendships alone make going to college worthwhile.)
> The look on her face was alone enough to repay me for all my efforts in finding the perfect toy for her.
> The doctor's smile alone told Henry he was going to be okay.
> Knocking over the sugar bowl was alone enough to ruin my morning -- much less dropping the entire carton of eggs.
> Eating in restaurants alone ("by myself") is alone enough ("sufficient") to make me feel conspicuous.
> Starting a fad of passing out "I Voted" stickers might alone be an opportunity for public recognition.
> The little yips from the garage alone told Tommy he was getting a puppy for his birthday.