California
2022 California Student Mock Election
Expensive County and District Superintendents, Constitution Faculty Directors, and Excessive Faculty and Center Faculty Principals:
The 2022 California main and U.S. basic election are rapidly approaching, and it’s as soon as once more time to get college students concerned and enthusiastic about civic engagement. The California Secretary of State and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction are partnering to host the 2022 California Pupil Mock Election on Tuesday, October 11, 2022.
Faculty registration for the 2022 California Pupil Mock Election opened on April 25, 2022. This essential program helps younger folks uncover the significance of elections and the facility of their votes within the democratic course of. By way of your college’s involvement, college students will uncover how authorities and politics have an effect on their every day lives. As soon as all of the votes are counted, college students will be capable of evaluate their votes to these of their friends at faculties from throughout the state.
We strongly encourage you to include this nice program into your curriculum. Registration for the 2022 California Pupil Mock Election will be discovered on the Secretary of State California Pupil Mock Election internet web page at https://studentmockelection.sos.ca.gov/. Right here, you’ll be able to register your college and procure sources for holding a profitable mock election. Please notice that just one registration is allowed per college. If you happen to and your colleagues want to take part, please you’ll want to collaborate and choose a Mock Election Coordinator on your college.
Provides for conducting a well-run scholar mock election, together with Pupil Voter Info Guides, ballots, posters, “I Voted” sticker templates, and different supplies might be accessible on the Mock Election internet web page. Please go to the Secretary of State Instruments for Success internet web page at https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/studentmockelection/tools-success to entry the availability package in digital format. Colleges that register by September 19, 2022, and want to obtain a provide package within the mail might request one by choosing “Paper” from the drop-down menu within the Provide Package Choice part of the registration display.
Along with the supplies already listed, the 2022 California Pupil Mock Election internet web page comprises a group of standards-based lesson plans designed to have interaction college students and share concepts that different faculties have used as a part of their California Pupil Mock Election actions.
One other approach to get college students enthusiastic about civic engagement this 12 months is to assist college students host a voter registration drive on your college. In California, pre-registration is accessible to eligible sixteen- and seventeen-year-old college students. California youth who pre-register to vote may have their registration change into lively as soon as they flip eighteen. College students can pre-register on the California Secretary of State On-line Voter Registration internet web page at https://registertovote.ca.gov/. To acquire a provide of voter registration playing cards, please contact our Elections Voter Engagement group at MyVote@sos.ca.gov.
For extra info about pre-registration and the Secretary of State’s different youth initiatives, please go to the Secretary of State Excessive Faculty and Youth Initiatives internet web page at https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/high-school-programs/.
Collectively, we will encourage a brand new technology to change into extra lively within the political course of. If you happen to have questions concerning the 2022 California Pupil Mock Election or different civic engagement alternatives, please contact the Secretary of State’s Pupil Mock Election Staff at 916-651-3070 or MyVote@sos.ca.gov.
Sincerely,
Tony Thurmond
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D.
California Secretary of State