The county clerk's office also invited student representatives from each participating school to the Travis County Central Counting Station to tabulate the results for their school on Election Day, November 3. Each school's mock election was treated like an election day polling place. Their results were posted with the returns from the real election on election night. Participating Schools Thirteen area high schools participated in the Mock Elections Program. The County Clerk's Mock Election Program is designed to replicate the real voting process as closely as possible.
Students experience the voting process and the steps involved in setting up the polling place.
The mock election is intended to promote confidence and prepare students to exercise their right to vote. As a voter. Students have the opportunity to vote in a polling place that uses almost identical procedures and equipment as those used in a real polling place. Even the ballots the students vote on are Optical Scan ballots specially prepared for the Mock Election. Students go through the entire process beginning with voter qualification and ending with placing their marked ballot into a sealed and locked ballot box.