Election Results from Students’ Votes Now In

by: LLS • November 5, 2008 

ELECTION ’08- School News

While real voting was taking place down the street at Piedmont Avenue Elementary School, or right across the street at St. Leo’s Gym, Tuesday’s Election Day found St. Leo’s students from Grades 4-8 voting on the same issues that all the grown-ups in California were voting on as well.

The polls closed last night at 8:00p, just around the exact moment that the news on TV announced that Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, had earned enough votes to win the election race– the candidate of choice based on the student majority at St. Leo’s.

Although some of the votes are still being tallied in the Bay Area and all across the state, the results of St. Leo’s students’ votes are all in and here are the results below. (It would be interesting to find out how the students’ votes match up with the actual votes in the state).

Presidential Race
• Senator Barack Obama (D)- 96%
• Senator John McCain (R)- 4%

Propositions (State)
• Prop 1A- High Speed Rail………………………………YES: 58% / No: 42%
• Prop 2- Treatment of Farm Animals………………..YES: 68% / No: 32%
• Prop 3- Bonds for Children’s Hospitals…………….YES: 51% / No: 49%
• Prop 4- Parental Notification (Abortion)……………Yes: 28% / NO: 72%
• Prop 5- Changes to Drug Treatment………………..YES: 51% / No: 49%
• Prop 6- Changes to Juvenile Sentencing……………Yes: 49% / NO: 51%
• Prop 7- Renewable Energy Generation……………..Yes: 46% / NO: 54%
• Prop 8- Eliminate Right of Same-sex Marriage…..Yes: 29% / NO: 71%
• Prop 9- Victims’ Rights………………………………….YES: 52% / No: 48%
• Prop 10- Alternative Fuel Vehicles…………………..YES: 56% / No: 44%
• Prop 11- Redistricting……………………………………Yes: 49% / NO: 51%
• Prop 12- Veterans’ Bond Act of 2008……………….YES: 74% / No: 26%

**only students in Grades 6-8 participated in the voting on propositions

LINK– To find out what was being voted on in each proposition, read through the
Voter Information Guide: State of California General Election 2008, an electronic PDF file of the guide that students were able to read through before voting.

from Staff Reports
News Team / THE LION LEDGER