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Help tornado damaged Lake schools by voting.

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MightbeaBuck

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Kohl?s is donating $500,000 to 20 public schools, elementary through high, to be used as the school sees fit. This is a popularity contest, and whichever schools receive the most online votes will win the money. With less than two weeks of voting to go, the three Ohio schools damaged by the June tornados are in the top forty: Lake High School, Lake Middle School, and Lake Elementary School. They are the ONLY Ohio schools even in the top fifty, so there shouldn't be any loyalty issues. The high school is almost guaranteed to be in the money, but the other two need some help, and I am hoping the voting power of the Buckeye Nation might step up and help get another, or even both, of our damaged schools into the prize category.

Voting can be done through facebook or twitter.

Kohl's Cares on Facebook
 
BuckeyeMac;1752034; said:
Is this Uniontown Lake??
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Lake Township, just outside of Millbury, which is a suburb of Toledo.

Updated standings:
Lake High School is 6th with 53,300 votes, is 2,200 ahead of 7th.
Lake Middle School is 34th. To win the money, they need at least 25,000 more votes.
Lake Elementary School is 39th. To win the money, they need at least 27,000 more votes.
 
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Today's standings:
Lake High School is 7th with 54,100 votes, is only 200 ahead of 8th. They have dropped one spot.
Lake Middle School dropped one spot to 35th. To win the money, they need at least 28,000 more votes. Losing ground quickly.
Lake Elementary School dropped one spot to 40th. To win the money, they need at least 30,000 more votes.

Ohio schools are dropping down in the standings. It may seem like there is not enough time to do move the vote, so...
The school to pass the middle and elementary? Piux X High School in Nebraska, which has picked up almost 30,000 votes and moved up to twelfth in the last two days.

If every Ohioan that had a Facebook or Twitter account would vote, Lake schools would have triple the votes the current first place holder has.
Google tornado damage, and the first five links are for Lake schools. Yet they don't garner enough love from Ohioans to help get a free $500k from Kohl's.

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Jake;1753255; said:
I didn't know a tornado could vote.
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A common misconception.
Things change. Blacks were allowed to vote beginning in 1870, women in 1920, yutes (those between 18 & 21 years of age) in 1971. Hard to believe you missed tornado suffrage. :!

With six days to go here are today's standings:
Lake High School having dropped two more spots, is now 9th with 56,700 votes, and is only 700 ahead of 10th.
Lake Middle School remains in 35th. To win the money, they need at least 31,000 more votes. Still losing ground.
Lake Elementary School dropped another spot to 41st. To win the money, they need at least 35,000 more votes.

Where are the computer hackers that can set things up so a person can vote more than once??
 
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On the September third, with 12 hours to go, Lake High School was in 21st place, with only the top twenty vote getters to receive any money. They were actually about 4,000 votes shy of even being in 20th.

The final tally, on the third, at midnight, had Lake winning it all. They didn't just eek it out either, Lake won with 6,000 more votes than second place had. They picked up over 40,000 votes in less than a day. The proverbial landslide.

Lake H.S. Receives Most Votes in Kohl's Cares Contest - the Press
1st place: Lake High School, Ohio ... 163,395 votes
2nd place: Lucas Christian Academy, Texas ... 157,512 votes

In fact, the largest gap between any two positions was that between top finisher Lake H.S. and no. 2 Lucas C.A.
Lake H.S. may be the only public school to place in the top twenty. Also, many of the other top twenty school's boosters were buying votes (which was within the rules), while Lake did it via word of mouth and the internet.

I am proud that we won. It's kind of like election day after you've done some help with grass roots campaigning. :groove2:
 
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