Mock Election 2008
You are invited to join the nation’s
largest voter education project!
Dear professor:
As you will recall, four years ago (2004), a
couple of days before the official elections, the
Instituto de Formación Democrática, affiliate
and representative in Latin America of the
National Student/Parent Mock Election, held its
IX Mock Election. More than 410,000 children
between 6 to 18 years of age, from both private
and public institutions, participated in the Mock
Election in Puerto Rico and the United States
Virgin Islands. Local newspapers immediately
published the results the next day on their front
covers and on Mock Election night on a special
live TV program through local Channels and radio
stations.
This educational exercise was part of the
National Student/Parent Mock Election. More than
10 million students from the United States,
Canada, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands went
to the polls on Mock Election Night. That night,
CNN/C-SPAN transmitted its live coverage of the
event in a two-hour special to the world, in
coordination with our live coverage in Puerto
Rico.
More than 1,160,000 students have learned the
inside scoop about elections and democracy in
Puerto Rico alone since our foundation in 1991.
After eight Mock Elections, we are proud to say
that we have shaped a new generation of voters to
become better Puerto Ricans. In the United
States, over close to 50 million students have
been trained by the National Student/Parent Mock
Election on how to be better citizens. Together,
the IFD and NSPME work hard to insure that
democracy is taught, learned, protected and
strengthened for future generations to come.
Along with the general elections that will be
conducted island wide on November 4, the
Instituto de Formación Democrática will
celebrate its X Mock Election with the student
population on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 just
six days before the official event.
Seminars on how to conduct the Mock Election in
your school will be offered throughout the
island. The place and time of the seminars will
be posted in local newspapers, TV and radio
stations, and this Web site in the upcoming
weeks. Directors, principals and teachers
interested in participating need to register with
the IFD to reserve their space.
Our programs are exclusively educational in
nature. Our goal is to educate the young on the
importance of democracy and the right to vote, by
empowering students with the adequate tools to
make responsible and informed decisions in the
electoral process. Therefore, our emphasis is
stressed on the event not the result. Only the
island wide results will be published, not by
individual schools.
There will be prizes (airline tickets, software,
cellular phones, books, gift certificates,
encyclopedias, and educational resources to name
a few) for the best schools, teachers and
students with the highest originality,
participation and motivation prior, during and
after the Mock Election on October 29th, 2008.
We appreciate your continuous cooperation with
the IFD. We will provide all the materials needed
for the upcoming X Mock Election through local
newspapers, TV and radio stations, and the
Internet. You can also download election
materials at www.mockelectionpr.com
and www.nationalmockelection.com.
So keep coming to this Web site for details.
You can reach us at 787-273-6724, 787-530-7575,
787-781-7294, or by fax at 787-793-0250,
787-720-6841, 787-720-1092, or by e-mail: register@mockelectionpr.com.
Sincerely,
Ramón
Barquín III
Chairman |
Oscar
Cucurullo
Director |
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