‘I Voted’ sticker creator talks about how it started
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WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The “I Voted” sticker given to people who cast ballots began with one woman, Janet Boudreau, who designed it after seeing a local county hand out a different sticker on Election Day.Boudreau said she has long supported voting, which she described as the right and duty of American citizens to share their voice.“This is the one day that we have to amplify what we want our world to look like, and it just irritated me and my folks, too, when people would say, oh I forgot the election,” Boudreau said.In 1987, Boudreau owned an election supply and voting equipment company. She noticed a county in Washington state had started handing out stickers on Election Day.“It was black and white and had an X in a square. And that’s it. And I thought, this is not inspiring,” Boudreau said.She said she then created her own design.“I went home and got out a blue and red pen and decided on an ellipse with a waving flag,” Boudreau said.The sticker started in a few counties and spread