For the past two elections, Triangle Blog Blog – a group of volunteer doofuses who run this website in our spare time – has handed out “I voted” stickers. They look like this:
People like them. They are fun. Municipalities near us also hand out fun stickers. This is the one from Raleigh, which a 6th grader designed:
This is Durham’s, which is handed out to all kids who accompany their parents to vote:
And here are fun ones from around the country:
Orange County’s, meanwhile, looks like this:
It is the generic, not-designed-by-a-small-child sticker designed by an election supply vendor in 1987.
I’m not knocking Janet’s design – it’s patriotic, it’s very clear on the action you just took – but I’d love to see Orange County go bigger, like Ulster County (NY) did in 2022, when this gem took the crown.
That’s a design from 14-year-old Hudson Rowan, which went viral. And for good reason: It’s truly amazing.
We, the people who live in Orange County, deserve a contest filled with the drawings of tiny school children. We deserve to rank those designs somewhere online. And we deserve to wear them proudly on our shirts after voting.
Triangle Blog Blog will be looking into how to make this happen. If you’d like to help, shoot us an email: [email protected]