Mock Election

The "lobby" of our school was decked out with American flags, a table with partitions set up like booths, and a big cardboard box covered with construction paper to resemble a ballot box. We had a mock election today.

I think the best part was helping one of the kindergarten classes through the process. One of the teachers asked me to take her class there during library time. No problem. Until we got there and realized that the class really had no clue of what they were doing, aside from some of the kids who wanted to pick "Rock" Obama.

Secrecy was not an option. So many of the kids would talk in normal voices when I whispered to them during the voting process. At least two kids would get behind one voting booth to try to understand what they were supposed to do. As another one of their friends would come up with a ballot, they would shout, "Hey, we just voted for Rock, here's where you need to put an X."

And the final part, getting an "I Voted" sticker was the best. Stickers were worn on shirts, hands, wrapped around fingers, or stuck to shoes after they fell off any of the mentioned places.

The results were announced later that day. The winner by a landslide was Rock.