Courtesy From Our CornerYour fiscally efficient, 2009 voter pamphlet team. From l

Courtesy From Our CornerYour fiscally efficient, 2009 voter pamphlet team. From l to r: Jenny Greeve, Amanda Meyer, Lindsay PryorEveryone’s got one. No, not…you know. Voter pamphlets. Those things you, me and the other 1.1 million registered voters in King County have gotten in the mail for the past couple years. They’ve got the look, feel and excitement level of an investment prospectus. But the thing is, someone put a lot of time and energy into them. And this year, even more so.This year’s pamphlet is actually a redesign. You may vaguely recall that in past years the cover featured children’s artwork. Not no more. With the help of Design for Democracy fellow Jenny Greeve, the new pamphlet, and all future pamphlets “will have a consistent layout and artistic style to provide an obvious visual connection from pamphlet to pamphlet and to give it a mature, professional, branded look to match what voting is all about.” Those are the words of the Voter Pamphlet Team on the Secretary of State’s blog, From Our Corner. And here’s the kicker. When you open up your shiny new pamphlet this voting season, the one that features all these candidates talking about fiscal responsibility and making government work for the people and all that, remember this: The people who actually made that document, the ones that spent extra time and resources crafting a redesign, they came in under budget.Let’s elect them.