14-year-old’s entry in ‘I Voted’ sticker design contest goes viral

Hudson Rowan, 14, became a single of six finalists in the Ulster County Board of Elections’ contest to pick a new “I Voted” sticker with this design. His drawing went viral on the net and gathered a lot more than 160,000 votes in the initial two weeks of online voting. Picture courtesy of the Ulster County Board of Elections

July 11 (UPI) — A New York county’s on the web contest to choose a new “I Voted” sticker is obtaining included interest following an unusual entry from a area 14-year-outdated pupil went viral.

The Ulster County Board of Elections mentioned far more than 168,000 votes have been cast in this year’s on the web contest to pick a new sticker, in comparison to only about 500 votes overall in last year’s inaugural contest.

The wide greater part of the votes so significantly have been for regional college student Hudson Rowan’s design, which options a multicolored, red-eyed human head atop spider legs future to the phrase, “I Voted.”

Rowan’s structure experienced additional than 157,500 votes as of Monday afternoon. The future most preferred of the 6 options experienced about 6,300 votes. Voting lasts by way of the end of July.

“It truly is absent a minimal viral,” Ashley Dittus, Democratic commissioner for Board of Elections, informed the Moments Herald-History newspaper. “Hudson’s layout has struck a chord with people, at the very least on-line, and we are definitely owning a great time looking at all people people from Ulster County, and all more than the location, have interaction with our web page, interact with our contest.”

Rowan explained he was astonished by how the voting has absent so considerably.

“I did not think I was going to get as a lot notice as I did,” he said. “I thought since mine was incredibly various from the others, I failed to feel mine was heading to get a lot of notice for the reason that of that, but I was mistaken. It was exactly the opposite.”

John Quigley, the Republican commissioner for the Ulster County Board of Elections, stated Rowan’s style and design struck a nerve with voters.

“Any person tweeted, this is how voters sense about politics appropriate now, and I assumed it was virtually like the very best way to summarize it. It kind of is precisely how we all sense about politics right now,” he mentioned.