Is there a way to change the vote and answer box to a graphic?

Question

I am talking about the square to the left of the question

Answer 1

In the CSS file find this:

.qa-voting  {
background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #B7E3DA;
border:1px solid #62847D;
float:left;
height:42px;
margin-right:1.5em;
overflow:hidden;
padding:18px 0;
}

Add something like this between the brackets:
background-image:url('paper.gif');

Answer 2

You can do what you like with any element on the page by using themes. I'm not sure exactly what you want here, but it might be possible to achieve it with CSS only, otherwise you'd need to do some PHP programming.

In any event, please see this page for more information on themes:

http://www.question2answer.org/advanced.php#theme