New York county achieves high voter turnout by giving people a nasty little spider sticker
Ulster County, New York voters are eager to get their hands on a contest-winning sticker
Back in July, Ulster County, New York hosted a competition to determine what its “I Voted” sticker would look like for this year’s General Election. In an expression of democracy that warms our hearts, a design by 14-year-old Hudson Rowan won the contest with a landslide 93% for his entry: A scream-laughing purple head with multicolored hair and teeth, bulging red eyes, and six cyan spider legs.
Kaleigh Rogers let the internet know that the confetti-haired spider monster has now scuttled its way onto stickers and tweeted both an excellent image of an official holding a roll of adhesive spider heads as well as a link to its source in a Daily Freeman article about how the design has helped drive a “strong turnout.”
An elections inspector said that early voting over the weekend was well above “his expectations of a few hundred people each day” and credited the fact that “many were excited about getting the stickers featuring [the] spider.”