Collection was processed by Kelley Moulton in January and February 2025. Buttons were removed from their individual plastic bags after being sorted by year and candidate to the best of staff ability. After being removed from their bags, buttons were stuck on to pieces of foam, except for the duplicate buttons. Once all buttons were added to foam, an overhead photo was taken of each piece of foam. These overhead images were then printed and all buttons were numbered on these pictures and each image was labelled with which box and sheet of foam they corresponded with. During numbering, some numbers were repeated on accident and the letters "a" and "b" were used to show the buttons as being different. The foam sheets were then laid flat in bankers boxes.

After all of the buttons were handled, the bumper sticker and other paper materials were sorted and separated into appropriate folders. Duplicate bumper stickers were separated from the main bumper sticker folder. When the buttons were removed from their bags, over 800 bags included pictures of the front of the buttons and on the back included information such as price changes for the button, political party, election year, and candidate name. Additional names and years were added during processing.