In October 2008, during the presidential elections, I decided to make a ballot box out of a pumpkin. I thought it was pretty clever, since a hollowed out pumpkin could act as a box, and there needed to be a top slot anyway to vent the candle. The carving was quite simple, which was nice since I hadn’t carved a pumpkin in quite a few years.
I entered the annual pumpkin carving contest at work but did not win or even place. Perhaps it was too political during that heated election season! But I was encouraged when quite a few high school age trick-or-treaters got a kick out of it.
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