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Grafton High School Vote in National Student Mock Election

Students and teachers at Grafton High School (GHS) took part in a national mock election on October 31st and November 1st. Students used a state-of-the art online voting system as they participated in a mock election program sponsored by the Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI), a national civic education program based at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. With approximately one million students expected to vote nationwide during the two-week voting period from October 22-November 1, the YLI Mock Election is the largest secure, student-only online mock election in the nation.

Grafton High School set up 8 voting stations using iPads for students to vote electronically in the YLI Mock Election. Students voted in the Virginia U.S. Senators, Virginia U.S. Representative in District 1 as well as the Presidential Election. At the end of the two days, 1149 students participated and were part of the 600,000 students from all 50 states that had their voted counted in this National Mock Election effort.