Need an energy boost to stay up and watch elections? Try voting.

Starting when they opened at 6 a.m., the Starbucks at 503 E. Green St. in Champaign has been giving away free tall (small) coffee to voters.

Voters do not need to be wearing an “I voted” sticker in order to receive the giveaway.

“They can say they voted,” said Katie Seguin, barista and sophomore in LAS. “We’re pretty much assuming they wouldn’t lie.”

Seguin said the giveaway has created long lines all day. So far between 1,000 to 1,500 free cups of coffee have been given away, Seguin said.

Tim Pauldon, freshman in LAS, said that he’s “planning to take advantage of all the free stuff I can.”

To deal with the lines Seguin said workers have been given specific duties. The store is grinding coffee and refilling the condiment bar “continuously” while one person is assigned to work the coffee station, Seguin said.

“It’s pretty stressful,” Seguin said.

Starbucks is not the only place encouraging people to vote with a giveaway. The Illini Apple Center, 512 E. Green St., is passing out a free iTunes card to anyone who shows their “I Voted” sticker, according to an advertisement in The Daily Illini.

Garrett Nix, junior in Media and employee at the Illini Apple Center, said the card has 20 free pre-selected songs from iTunes on it.

Nix said he estimates the store has given away anywhere from 100 to 200 of the iTunes cards and they still have some left.

“People have been coming in every few minutes to get their free stuff,” Nix said.

However, one giveaway has already run out of supplies.

Smoothie King, 616 E. Green St., had given away Caribbean Way smoothies to people who could prove they voted. After giving away a little more than 500 smoothies, the store ran out of papaya, one of the ingredients in the drink.

Tia Byron, owner of the Campustown Smoothie King, said that business had been pretty steady throughout the day. The store began giving away smoothies after opening at 9 a.m.

“It’s important for people to participate in their freedom,” Byron said. “We just wanted to reward them for doing so.”

Nicola Crean contributed to this report