Exercise Your Right to Vote! Help Select a Vehicle Contest Readers’ Choice Winner!

It’s a sad fact that Americans registered to vote who exercise their right aren’t much of a majority. According to www.nonprofitvote.org, 58.6% of registered voters went to the polls for the 2012 Presidential election. Minnesota (Midwesterners tend to be civic-minded) topped the list, which includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with 76.1% of those registered to vote casting a ballot. Hawaii, which perhaps feels disconnected from the mainland thousands of miles away – and, perhaps the waves were too good to pass up at the beach that day – ranked last at 44.5%.

Nonparticipants in the political process provide many reasons for not voting: dissatisfaction with candidates, discontent with the politics in general, complications with registration, bad weather on Election Day, etc.
To counteract past voting inertia, we hereby invite ST subscribers and Signweb visitors to cast a ballot in our Inaugural Vehicle Graphics Readers’ Choice Contest! The judges from our traditional Vehicle Graphics Contest selected 11 standout entries to create the field.

No candidate will accost you in public or leave aggravating, “robo-call” messages on your phone. You can make your choice from your computer or mobile device, and you aren’t required to live with your choice, and potential voter’s remorse, for the next four years.

Click this link to survey the field and make your choice. Voting remains open until August 16, and is limited to one selection per electronic device. Contact Contest Coordinator Steve Aust at steve.aust@stmediagroup.com if you have any questions. The winners will be published with the judged results in the October issue.

Even if vehicle wraps aren’t part of your stock in trade, we want you to exercise your right and vote! Every tally is an expression of support for our dynamic, multi-faceted industry and the powerful, cost-effective advertising we provide!