Never too young to vote

The results are in: Barack Obama took the lion's share of the votes ... among people too young to cast ballots.

To encourage students to become voters, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen and Supt. of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell held a mock election on Oct. 30 among middle and high school students.

Nine hundred schools took part, and with more than 600 of them reporting so far, Obama received 73.5% of the vote, McCain received almost 21%, and other candidates got the rest.

Middle school students at Horace Mann in Beverly Hills were among the schools that took part, and its results were not far off the statewide totals.

Today, eighth-graders at Horace Mann, a K-8 school, are running an election for children in kindergarten through fifth grade. Students are being escorted into social studies teacher David Foldvary's class.

Read the rest of this article on the Homeroom blog.

--Beth Shuster and Mary MacVean