Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Well, Bryan's school election is officially complete.

Thank goodness.

Today the electoral college met and cast their classroom votes for president. By an overwhelming margin (17-7) Obama won.

Jim Mitchell Elementary has officially voted Barrack Obama into office.

Each class had a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 2 electoral votes, based on the population of each class. Bryan's class had 2 votes. One elector from the 5th grade didn't show up. Fortunately, the electoral vote didn't come to a tie.

It was a nice lesson for the kids. They all enjoyed being included in the voting process. They also got to vote on a school mascot and school colors. Those votes haven't been counted yet. They expect to have those finished by Friday.

I'm just so glad it's all over. I was able to get the ballot boxes out of my house on Monday. So my dining room is back to normal too.

I'm so proud of Bryan for thinking of and organizing this election. He did a great job.

2 comments:

Helen said...

Great idea to have a kids' election - was explaining elections to my 8yo today but his eyes glazed over, LOL.

StampinBB said...

You're a good Mom and you've got one smart boy there!