Today our class worked to conduct a school-wide CFI presidential election. The kids delivered ballots to the other classrooms, staying to monitor the voting process. We then tallied the results back in our room. After counting the votes for each class, the numbers were combined to create grade level totals. We found ten classrooms favored Barack Obama while two favored Mitt Romney.
Next, we used survey data on the ballots to see which classes were most informed as to how their parents were planning to vote on Tuesday.
Lastly, we tallied up totals by gender. The results were amazingly even. Both boys and girls favored Barack Obama by a similar margin.
After a celebratory pizza party everyone headed out to create bar graphs to share with the school. This process was a bit challenging (everything had to be 100% correct) but everything came together just in time to post in the entrance hallway before dismissal.
There were a few irregularities. For a time we thought one class had cast 23 votes despite having only 22 students. We also noticed Mrs. Barnes totals (20 for Obama and 1 for Romney) seemed awfully out of place when looking at patterns across the school. We'll have to investigate a bit to see why this might have happened. Perhaps the results will be contested!
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