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Michelle Oum arrived in Lake Forest from her home in Seoul, South Korea, in August to start her freshman year at Lake Forest Academy. On March 17, thousands of people in Lake County will be wearing an “I Voted” sticker she designed.

During an art class, Oum said her teacher told the students about a contest sponsored by Lake County Clerk Anthony Vega to design an “I Voted” sticker voters are given after they cast their ballots in both the March 17 primary and the Nov. 3 general election.

Though she was not intimately familiar with the voting process in Lake County, Illinois or the United States, Oum said it was an opportunity to further her education outside the grounds of her school and learn something about where she plans to spend the next

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