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

Hudson Rowan, 14, turned a single of 6 finalists in the Ulster County Board of Elections’ contest to decide on a new “I Voted” sticker with this style and design. His drawing went viral online and gathered a lot more than 160,000 votes in the 1st two weeks of on the internet voting. Photo courtesy of the Ulster County Board of Elections

July 11 (UPI) — A New York county’s on the net contest to choose a new “I Voted” sticker is getting included interest immediately after an unusual entry from a area 14-calendar year-aged scholar went viral.

The Ulster County Board of Elections claimed additional than 168,000 votes have been cast in this year’s on the net contest to pick a new sticker, compared to only about 500 votes complete in very last year’s inaugural contest.

The huge greater part of the votes consequently significantly have been for regional college student Hudson Rowan’s design and style, which functions a multicolored, crimson-eyed human head atop spider legs up coming to the phrase, “I Voted.”

Rowan’s structure experienced more than 157,500 votes as of Monday afternoon. The subsequent most well-known of the six solutions experienced about 6,300 votes. Voting lasts through the close of July.

“It really is gone a tiny viral,” Ashley Dittus, Democratic commissioner for Board of Elections, advised the Periods Herald-Record newspaper. “Hudson’s style and design has struck a chord with people today, at the very least on line, and we are seriously obtaining a very good time watching all those people people today from Ulster County, and all in excess of the place, have interaction with our web site, interact with our contest.”

Rowan claimed he was surprised by how the voting has absent so considerably.

“I did not feel I was heading to get as considerably interest as I did,” he reported. “I assumed considering that mine was extremely various from the other individuals, I failed to think mine was heading to get a lot of interest since of that, but I was completely wrong. It was exactly the reverse.”

John Quigley, the Republican commissioner for the Ulster County Board of Elections, reported Rowan’s structure struck a nerve with voters.

“Any person tweeted, this is how voters feel about politics right now, and I believed it was nearly like the greatest way to summarize it. It type of is accurately how we all experience about politics right now,” he said.