If students at Trenton High School and Rissler Elementary School were voting in today’s General Election, Mitt Romney would be the next president of the United States.
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candidate for president, got 57.7 percent of the votes cast by students in Monday’s mock election, held at THS during “Pride Time.” There were 141 who voted for Romney while 63 voted for incumbent Barack Obama, who got 25.1 percent of the vote. There were also eight votes cast for Libertarian Gary Johnson, Constitution candidate Virgil Goode got four votes and Ron Paul received seven write-in votes. Paul had been a candidate for the Republican nomination earlier this year.
Proposition B, which asks for an increase in the state’s cigarette tax, had 142 persons, or 59 percent, vote in favor while 99 voters, or 41 percent, voted against the measure.
Social studies instructor Brandon Boswell, who organized the event, noted that 305 high school students were eligible to cast a ballot in the election, which did not include vo-tech students who were absent.
Boswell also said that no physical materials containing information about the candidates or Proposition B were distributed to the students by teachers before the vote was taken.
At Rissler Elementary School, 53 percent of the students casting ballots voted for Romeny while Obama received 46 percent of the votes. Johnson and Goode each received less than 1 percent.
Rissler students also voted for Missouri governor, chooseing Republican Dave Spence over Democrat Jay Nixon, 53 percent to 33 percent. Jim Higgins got 13 percent of the vote.
For U.S Representative in the Sixth District, Rissler students chose to put Sam Graves back in office with 57 percent of the vote. Kyle Yarber had 25 percent and Russ Monchill received 13 percent of the vote.
For U.S. Senator, Claire McCaskill won re-election with 55 percent while Republican challenger Todd Akin got 31 percent. Jonathine Dine had 13 percent.