Welcome to the nation's largest
civic education project:
The National Student/Parent Mock Election

• Over 5 million votes were cast in the 2008 National Student/Parent Mock Election
• All 50 states, Washington, DC and American schools around the world participated
• There is no charge to participate in the National Student/Parent Mock Election, nor is there any charge for curriculum materials. Every American student, parent and teacher is invited to join
  

2010 RESULTS

The ballots are closed and we are tallying the results of the 2010 National Student/Parent Mock Election. Check the results page to see how your state voted.

2010 BALLOTS & VOTING INSTRUCTIONS

Click here for the 2010 Ballots and information about how to vote!

HOW TO ENROLL

Download this Word document. Fill out and email it to nspme@aol.com, or fax it to 520.742.3553.

You may enroll home schoolers, a class or community group, a school or a school district.

There is no charge of any kind. 

If you do not get a response within one week, please contact us at once.

Click here to download the Word document.

HOW TO VOLUNTEER

For the 2010 Mock Election, we are urgently in need of volunteers or interns for everything from proposal writers to state coordinators for some states (or school or school district coordinators, if preferred) to curriculum writers to information technology experts, marketing experts, digital entrepreneurs, internet fundraisers, you name it. Telecommuters welcome (virtual office).

Click here to volunteer.

HOW TO DONATE

Donate Money. Any amount is welcome. What will your money buy?

• Help us teach the next generation of voters and their parents and teachers the ideals of the founding fathers.
• government by consent of the governed
• liberty and justice for all

• Help us change hate, vitriol and threats of violence into civil discourse, decency and generosity to our fellow Americans

Click here to donate.

2010 CURRICULUM

Click here to visit the Curriculum page.

FACT SHEET

Click here to visit the Fact Sheet page.

WHAT'S NEW?

October 28, 2010 is Mock Election Day

*What will we be voting on in 2010?

• All seats in the House of Representatives
• 1/3 of the seats in the Senate
• 37 governors races
• 4 key national issues

The 4 key national issues to be voted on in addition to candidates in the 2008 Mock Election are:

• The economy
• Energy
• Health care
• Immigration

Watch this space for an alert to your state’s ballots and the 2010 issues curriculum.

Students to Hit the Polls October 28 for National Mock Election

The Democracy Forum
October 30, 2010, 2-5 p.m.
Arizona Historical Society

The Democracy Forum is Tucson’s and the nation’s response to the hate and vitriol that lead to vandalism and threats of violence. The program is designed to bring parents, grandparents, children and public officials together in a bipartisan, intergenerational, multi-ethnic forum on the key national issues of our time. The Democracy forum will do it in an atmosphere of decency, civility and generosity to our fellow Americans.

There has been a sudden increase in hate crimes on college campuses:

• Cotton balls scattered outside the black cultural center at University of Missouri-Columbia.

• Racial slurs and a threat of lynching at St. Louis University.

• A swastika scrawled on a bathroom wall near a Jewish studies center at the University of Miami.

• Death threats against black students left on a bathroom wall at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio.

• A white fraternity at the University of California – San Diego, sponsored a ghetto-themed “Compton Cookout” to mock Black History Month.

The Democracy Forum is designed to stir emotions. Americans of all ages and a wide diversity of beliefs will be inspired to rededicate themselves to America’s ideals, just as did our highly successful Declaration of Independence visit. Participants in the Democracy Forum will model for a new generation of Americans the values and ideals of the founding fathers as free men and women, speaking freely on the issues of their own time but with courtesy and concern for their fellow Americans and for generations to come.

To change attitudes and behaviors, you must move emotions. The affective strategies that made the Declaration of Independence visit so moving and successful – the music, drama, costumes, decorations, ritual and pageantry as well as oratory - all with carefully programmed timing will play a key role in the forums.  Pomp and circumstance will hold the crowds’ attention, moving their emotions and preparing Americans of all ages to pass the torch of democracy – still burning brightly with the values for which the founding fathers fought.

We hope the business and philanthropic communities will join in these efforts just as we believe schools and communities will, first in Tucson, then across the nation, through the National Student/Parent Mock Election network. 

As Sandra Day O’Connor, retired Justice of the Supreme Court, said in her Declaration of Independence remarks, “There is no greater legacy any of us can leave than the legacy of democracy.”

Download the Democracy Forum Flyer PDF!

For further information please contact:
Gloria Kirshner
President
National Student/Parent Mock Election
Fax: (520) 742-3553
Email: nspme@aol.com

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Teen Voices of Democracy-Election Issues Youth Forum

Participants in both the 2010 Mock Election and the Democracy Forum will have an outstanding opportunity to become young journalists and have their voices and opinions heard and their work published on the web. See: http://www.teenvoicesofdemocracy.com

See: youthissues.com for discussion of the four issues chosen for the 2010 National Student/Parent Mock Election: immigration, health care, energy and the economy.

www.youthissuesforum.com welcomes opinions on any Issue 

The Instituto de Formacion Democratica is collaborating with the National Student/Parent Mock Election to make Teen Voices of Democracy possible. IFD also coordinates the Mock Election in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

All Mock Election participants are encouraged to explore this exciting new opportunity. There is no charge. A teacher may publish the work of their entire class if desired.

Watch for photos and videos on this website and on our Facebook and Twitter sites.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TOUR
Made possible by the Pearson Foundation and Declare Yourself

New Jersey
New Jersey Mock Election Awards Ceremony (video)

Texas
Pictures of the Declaration of Independence in Austin Texas (photos)
Copy of Declaration of Independence headed to Austin (video and news article)

Florida
Declaration of Independence event (Miami Herald Miami-Dade) (news article)
Declaration of Independence in Florida (Just News) (news article)
Declaration of Independence event in Florida (Miami Herald Pinecrest) (news article)

Arizona
Declaration of Independence at the Arizona Historical Museum (video)
Declaration of Independence in Tucson (video)

Illinois
Chicago’s Declaration of Independence event (Benzinga) (news article)
Chicago’s Declaration of Independence event (Senator Durbin) (TV) (video)
Chicago’s Declaration of Independence event (picture of Declaration of Independence) (news article)

California
Declaration of Independence event in California (Daily Breeze)(news article)

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE VIDEOS

Sandra Day O’Connor speaks about the Declaration of Independence

The declaration of Independence read by celebrities (such as; Morgan Freeman, Reese Witherspoon, Whoopie Goldberg, Mike Douglas, and Renee Zellweger)

CURRICULUM

Suggested Activities – Declaration of Independence Visit

Click here for the new Declaration of Independence Curriculum from the Austin Independent School District

Check out our new Teachers Guide to the 2009 Gubernatorial Races:
Word doc
Adobe PDF

Teachers looking for a forum to publish their students' work and help students achieve recognition for their efforts (and provide motivation) will be pleased to find the Youth Citizen-Journalist Network (YCJN) aligned with the National Student/Parent Mock Election. YCJN is an ideal complement to middle and high school lessons regarding the gubernatorial races and much more. YCJN is a social media video and text-reporting educational project.

See our Factsheet to learn more about the National Student/Parent Mock Election

See the student essays, "What Participating in the Mock Election Meant to Me"

Sohum Pawar, a New Jersey 7th grader, was invited to the State Museum in Trenton on June 24, 2009, to read his Mock Election essay. His visit was part of an official ceremony honoring the efforts of New Jersey students participating in the National Student/Parent Mock Election for the impressive scope of their voter education and mock election campaigns. New Jersey schools were chosen from thousands of participating schools nationwide as winners of a visit from a rare, original copy of the Declaration of Independence. Sohum met the Governor on this occasion.

See a short video on YouTube of the Declaration of Independence visit and New Jersey's ceremony

Read Sohum Pawar's essay on his experience seeing an original copy of the Declaration of Independence

See our photo gallery of 2008 Award Winners and read about their exciting Mock Election projects! (under construction, but many projects already posted here)