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Question
Conduct a mock election in your class.
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Solution
Election activities in the class room
- Campaigning
- Voting Booth
- Voter Registration form
- Campaign posters
- Cast your Ballot
- Reward your voters
- Tally up the votes
- Graph the votes.
- Before beginning, think of issues, students enjoy voting on, make up copies of a short voter registration form for each student.
- Have a ballot box.
- After the election issue is chosen you will need to make up a ballot for each student.
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