Deaf/Hard-Of-Hearing Students Organize ERHS Mock Election

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Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Hortie

From left to right: Walter Funes, Kierra Tucker, William Flores, and Azahri Rilles help post a bulletin board showing results of the 2016 Roosevelt mock election.

Chiemeka Okeoma, Staff Writer
November 15, 2016

Mr. Donald Mahoney, who teaches deaf and hard-of-hearing students at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, had his students stage a mock election to find out which of the 2016 presidential candidates was most popular at ERHS.

“We went all over the school to collect votes,” signed freshman Kierra Tucker. Freshman Walter Funes further explained that after they gathered the results they discussed and later put together a bulletin board showing the outcome of this election. These were the results:

Hillary Clinton – 287 votes

Donald Trump- 27 votes

Jill Stein – 10 votes

Gary Johnson – 22 votes

Other – 107 votes

The candidate with the most write-in votes was Bernie Sanders and most participants in the mock election were in the 10th and 11th grade. Janet Morales commented on the project, saying that it was “interesting and fun.”