Get out and ‘vote N’at’
Mt. Lebanon sophomore wins Allegheny County election sticker contest
Molly Bozick sports her Yinzer spirit with pride, and soon, Allegheny County voters will do the same.
The sophomore at Mt. Lebanon High School entered a contest to create a sticker to be distributed at Allegheny County polling places and ended up winning with her “I Voted N’at” design.
The sticker will be used in Allegheny County elections through 2026.
“It’s really great. … I didn’t really expect anything to come out of it,” Bozick said.
Bozick said her entrance in the contest started during her winter break.
“I was listening to Spotify and this ad kept coming up that was calling all Allegheny County high schoolers,” she recalled. “I didn’t really have anything going on, so I decided to do it. I sent it in the next day and didn’t think too much of it.”
Bozick’s design features a red, white and blue border at the top, circling the words “I Voted.” In the center is the downtown Pittsburgh skyline with the bottom border featuring the black and gold colors of the city’s professional sports teams surrounding the saying “N’at” in bright gold. N’at is Pittsburghese for “and that,” serving as a verbal equivalent to et cetera.
“I wanted to create something that was still representative of traditional ‘I voted’ stickers,” Bozick said. “But I also wanted to be unique to Allegheny County and Pittsburgh.”
She considered several ideas as she developed her sticker, such as the city’s bridges, the inclines, Heinz and pickles.
“I landed on N’at because it’s good and it can go with ‘I voted’ nicely,” Bozick explained.
Allegheny County’s first-ever “I Voted” sticker contest received more than 13,000 votes. In January, more than three dozen submissions were narrowed to 10 finalists. Bozick’s entry received 2,410 votes to win the competition.
Bozick, 15, is not old enough to vote, so she will not be going to the polls to receive one of her stickers, but her parents are looking forward to getting one.
At Mt. Lebanon, Bozick is a member of the field hockey and forensics teams, as well as Model UN.
Allegheny County held the contest to drum up interest in this year’s election.
“Everyone knows that voter turnout was very high last year, as it typically is in presidential election years,” said Sara Innamorato, board of election chair and county executive. “But our elections division administers elections two times a year, every year, and in those odd number years we have important local races for municipal and judicial offices on the ballot that are often overlooked by voters. We launched this new sticker design contest to engage folks in an election year when turnout typically drops significantly.”
Bozick said voting is an important right and was happy to win a contest dealing with elections.
“It’s a good way to connect to your city and the place you live,” she said. “It actually does have an impact. It is important to vote. Even little elections have a big impact in your life. Local elections have more of a foreseeable impact on your daily life, and I feel a lot of people overlook that kind of stuff and focus on national stuff.”