As Election Day in ohio approaches, the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections is letting kids cast their own 'ballots' that aims to help get children used to voting.
Harlee Johnson casts a 'Kids Ballot' on Nov. 3, 2023 at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. The Kids Ballots are an effort to introduce children to voting and overall improve voter turnout., Harlee, barely tall enough to reach the scanner, fed her ballot into the tabulating machine. After some help from elections officials, her ballot went through.
“It’s getting a lot of use,” said Steve Doell, who oversees early voting for Cuyahoga County’s Board of Elections. “In fact, some of the adults wish they could vote on it.” On Thursday night, Doell said a child who wanted to cast a “ballot” alongside their parents even brought in a homemade ID to stand in place of the
As a result, the county’s board of elections isn’t the only group that is trying to find new ways to introduce children to voting., a Columbus-based offshoot of the national nonprofit Kids Voting USA, publishes a laptop-based voting software that schools can use to hold elections on anything from favorite ice cream flavors to student council to presidential candidates, said Michael Collins, the executive director of Kids Voting Ohio.
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