Video: Elementary School Holds Mock Election

WEST POINT, Miss. (WCBI) – Election Day comes early for South Side Elementary students in West Point.

It’s all to teach students about the election process, how important it is, and how one ballot can make a difference in an election.

The third and fourth grade gifted program is over the election.

Some students are in charge of the registration booth, while others wait in line for their turn to vote.

“As the ballots are turned in from each teacher, we’re just taking the ballots and clipping them together and we’ll just hand them back the ballots, which do not have the students name on it, but the teachers will be able to maybe do bar graphs with the different candidates, and just put some math in there, so that way, we’re hitting some different skills with this,” says South Side 4th Grade Gifted Teacher, Anna Coker.

Around 500 students will be participating in the mock election.

“They would be very confused with what to do, even though Mrs. Coker would gave them very strict instructions. Sometimes,  people were probably just talking in line and stuff like that, so they would come in, and most of the people would be confused because they were just walking all around the room, and then me or Miller would tell them what to do and we were like, ‘please come over here and register’, and they would give us their cards, and we’d check their name on each classroom, and we’d mark them off with the marker,” says 4th grader, John Micheal Estrada.

The mock election’s theme is My Voice, My Vote,which follows the state’s theme for Promote the Vote.

The results will be turned into Promote the Vote to see where their school stands with the rest of the state.