SMITHTON — With 100 percent of classrooms reporting, third- and fourth-grade students at Smithton Elementary gave Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney the nod during a mock election on Friday.
Pettis County Clerk Nick La Strada was the guest speaker to the third-grade classes of Cindy Thompson and Ginger Snapp and fourth-grade social studies teacher Hallie Gaines for the midday event, which marks the launch of the classes’ unit on government. La Strada walked students through the entire voting process, from registration to how to properly cast a paper ballot, before providing the children with sample ballots of the Nov. 6 general election.
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