3. Just the Numbers
• Nevada was one of the top voting states in the
YLI Mock Election
• Number of schools that had students vote: 32
plus 2 home schools
• Number of students who voted: 11,140
• Number of votes cast: 137,510
4. Mock Election Reports…
• With 16 schools reporting on the CAE and the
Mock Election, here is what they had to say…
5. Who Did Students Vote For?
• U.S. Senate: Harry Reid = 53%
• House of Rep – District 1: Shelley Berkley = 59.6%
• House of Rep – District 2: Dean Heller = 40.5%
• House of Rep – District 3: Dina Titus = 36.7%
• Governor: Rory Reid: 40.2%
• Lt. Governor: Jessica Sferrazza = 35.6%
• Secretary of State: Ross Miller = 37.7%
NOTE: Except for Dean Heller, students voted for
democratic party candidates.
6. What Did the Schools Do?
Foothill HS – Las Vegas
• 2548 students participated in online voting.
• The entire Social Studies and Science departments
participated in registration, review of candidates and
issues (the week before voting), and finally the actual
voting.
• The principal, Jeanne Donadio provided "Election
Official" shirts to 26 Advanced Placement Government
seniors who monitored the 3 election sites (computer
labs) and assisted students with actual voting.
• Planning was done through 9 teachers, primarily: 4
Social Studies, 1 Science Department Chairperson, the
Broadcast Journalism teacher (pre-election publicity) and
the Art teachers (publicity and poster contest).
7. What Teachers Had To Say…
• “Our mock election was successful and was a great
learning experience!”
• “For the Civic Awareness Expo, I transformed my
room into campaign headquarters. I assigned my
students candidates to research and they created an
information booth. We had over 400 students
attend throughout the day and visit the booths.”
• “Virtual High school students enjoyed the mock
election! The electronic voting and registration (on
a google doc) made it easy for students to register
and vote.”
8. Elko High School in the News
• In the Elko Daily Free Press – “Teens Learn
About Politics” October 13, 2010
• “Hundreds of juniors and seniors at Elko High
School had a chance to hear from political
candidates and learn more about the upcoming
election Tuesday during the school’s first Civic
Awareness Expo.”
9. TMCC High School Reports…
• Students at TMCC High School wrote their own
press release
• TMCC High School participating for the first
time ever in the ‘Your Vote, Your Responsibility’
program.
• “… TMCC High School seniors will be
participating in the ‘Your Vote, Your
Responsibility’ program aimed at educating
future voters upon the process of voting and the
reasons why voting is necessary.”