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Norton Students Get into the Election Spirit
Mock elections held at Norton High School and Henri A. Yelle Elementary School.
Norton students had the opportunity to vote for their choice for the senate and presidential candidates Monday. “When I first came here to the high school to talk to the civics class, we agreed that we wanted this to be a process that was as closely matched to what the real process was, and that’s exactly what we did,” said Norton Town Clerk Danielle Sicard. About 85 percent of Norton High School students registered to vote 20 days before the election, checked in and out and voted in a booth. The civics class, with the leadership of their teacher Robb McCoy and Sicard, have gone through a training session, have been sworn in as election workers for this mock election and will be conducting the hand counting and producing a final results …
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