KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Three weeks to the day before the real thing, mock elections were held at Kalamazoo’s high schools on Tuesday.
The city of Kalamazoo provided special ballots and conducted the mock election using the real equipment, set up at the schools. Students not only learned how to fill out the ballot, but how to register to vote and how to seek out information on candidates.
Jennie Hill with the League of Women Voters says that is “the important part.”
Voter education is what they are stressing,” Hill said.
Assistant Kalamazoo Clerk Shelby Moss said practice makes perfect, and having already done it once will alleviate the fear that they might do it incorrectly when their first time to vote comes.
For some of these students, that first time will be in three weeks.
Kalamazoo Public Schools officials are expected to release the vote totals from the mock election soon.
