I Voted. Yo No Voté.

I made a post about this on the Corduroy Ninja comics forums, but I thought it might warrant a blog post as well.

First of all, congratulations to Barrack Obama.  This is the first time a president I have voted for has won.  However, I think now that the elections are over, I’m officially changing my voter registration to Libertarian.  I know I’m kind of losing out on the primaries by doing that, but I’ve totally lost faith in the two-party system (bot parties are the same these days anyway).  I figure one more person registered for the best third party option out there can only help things.   But I digress.

I went to the voting station last night after work and was pleasantly surprised to find no line at all.  I punched the screen, voted for the people I knew anything about, and was on my way.  Nice and easy.

But here is why I’m even writing about this.  I got my “I Voted” sticker. Much to my dismay it also said, “Yo Voté”.

Is it really necessary to have Spanish subtext on our voting stickers? If I moved to Mexico, became a citizen, and voted in their elections and my sticker had a Mexican flag and read, “Yo Voté”, I really don’t think I’d need it to be subtitled in English for me to understand what’s happening.

To become a citizen of the United States of America, you are required to be able to “read, write, and speak English.” (US Immigration)

You have to be a citizen to vote.  Therefore, I don’t think I’m out of line in my thinking that “Yo Voté” has no place on our stickers here in America.