Emily Cain, a fourth-grader at Cedarhurst Elementary School in Burien, won this year’s Voters’ Pamphlet Kids Art Contest that is hosted by the office of the Washington Secretary of State , Secretary of State Kim Wyman visitedmEmily’s classroom (Mr. Kevin Plough is teacher) to join Emily’s teacher and parents in surprising her with the big news.

   Winner: Emily Cain, age 10 – 4th grader at Cedarhurst Elementary, Burien. Thet theme this year was “Every Vote is Equal!” celebrating 50 years of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark piece of legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Civil rights activists Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks were on hand to watch President Lyndon B. Johnson sign the bill into law on Aug. 6, 1965. 

·         Nearly 300 talented 4th and 5th grade students statewide submitted their artwork in 2015.
·         Emily’s drawing will feature in 3.2 million copies of the statewide Voters’ Pamphlet this November.
·         Emily’s winning artwork and other runners-up will be displayed this fall in the state Capitol Building in the Lt. Governor’s office.

·         This is the 14th annual voters’ pamphlet art contest for elementary students (first was 2002).
·         The art contest prompts a discussion with our youngest citizens about the importance of voting.
·         The Office of the Secretary of State also conducts an educational mock election statewide for grades K-12 each October.