Election 2024: Three new designs chosen for NH ‘I Voted’ stickers

GEOFF FORESTER—Monitor staff

New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan and Deputy Secretary of State Erin Hennessey look over some of the thousands of the ‘I Voted’ sticker contest entries in the underground walkway between the State House and the Legislative Office Building in Concord on Wednesday, January 3, 2024. GEOFF FORESTER—Monitor staff

ABOVE: New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan and Deputy Secretary of State Erin Hennessey look over some of the hundreds of the ‘I Voted’ sticker entries in the underground walkway between the State House and the Legislative Office Building in Concord on Wednesday. GEOFF FORESTER photos / Monitor staff

Two rolls of the ‘I Voted’ sticker finalists at the Secretary of State office.

Some of the hundreds of the ‘I Voted’ sticker contest entries in the underground walkway between the State House and the Legislative Office Building in Concord on Wednesday. GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor staff

TOP: The three winning designs for the state “I voted” sticker contest. (Courtesy photo)

By DAVID BROOKS

Monitor staff

Published: 01-03-2024 4:27 PM

Modified: 01-06-2024 11:27 AM

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Voting will be a lot more colorful in New Hampshire’s presidential primary this year, and we’re not talking about candidates’ behavior.

The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office has chosen three designs for the “I Voted” stickers given to people when they leave the polling place. One has a moose, one has the Old Man of the Mountain, and one has the state personified as a happy angler catching their dinner.

The designs have the loose feel of a fourth grader’s drawing and for good reason: They were drawn by fourth graders as part of a statewide contest.

More than 1,000 designs were submitted by fourth graders from around the state, involving everything from bobcats to buildings and mountains to maps, sporting every color of the rainbow.

Most of the entries are shown on posters placed on the wall of the underground walkway between the State House and the Legislative Office Building in Concord.

Designs by students from Milton, Auburn and Mont Vernon were chosen as the winners by local town and city clerks during their annual conference in October. The three winners – Grace, Jacob and Rilynn – will have lunch at the State House on Thursday with Secretary Dave Scanlan and Deputy Secretary Erin Hennessey.

“We were thrilled by the number of submissions we received from highly engaged fourth graders across New Hampshire. … It was difficult to pick just three winners!” Hennessey said.

Two million stickers have been printed with the three winners and will be distributed by the Secretary of State’s office to poll workers throughout New Hampshire in time for the Jan. 23 primary.

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