Saturday I wrote about the student-designed “I Voted” sticker that came with my ballot. What I should have made clear is that there were two stickers, one English and one Spanish. This was the Spanish option:
Clever, eh? It was designed by Brighton resident Marta Kwiat. Apparently each submitted design had both Spanish and English versions and one of each language was included with each ballot (Adams County is 41% Hispanic).
There were four winners. I don’t know how it was decided which stickers went with which ballots, but these were the award winning designs:
What a great way to get our youngsters interested in and thinking about ballots, voting, and community involvement. Congratulations to Macy, Xalen, Marta, Diana, and Erika!
For more information about the design contest, see “I Voted” Sticker Design Contest and I Voted Sticker Design Contest Winners Announced.
(And yes, I dropped my ballot in the collection box yesterday morning. By last night I’d gotten a text message saying it was in the hands of the election board awaiting verification, at which point I’d be notified that my vote had officially been counted. Meantime, my ballot info had included a URL where I could check the status of my ballot at any time.)
A whole lot of nice stuff on a topic totally irrelevant down here, inasmuch as we have mandatory voting.
Where’s your fun, the suspense of having local elections all over the country in different places, at different times, on different days, on different ballots, with different collection and counting methods? You Aussies miss all that fun when you’re all out on the same day, partying and voting. 😉