Mock Election at SMS
November 2023

LWVS coordinates annually with SMS social studies teachers across all grades to implement a school-wide mock general election on the Monday before the General Election. Students are provided a specially-prepared, age appropriate Voters’ Guide and offered the same ballot choices that a registered voter residing at the SMS mailing address would have encountered at the polls.

2023 SMS Mock General Election Results (to be posted when available)

SMS Voter turnout: 1,054

NYS PROPOSAL 1:removal of small city school districts from special constitutional debt limitation

• Yes: 67.4%
• No: 32.6%

NYS PROPOSAL 2:extending sewage project debt exclusion from debt limit

• Yes: 67.3%
• No: 32.7%

westchester county court judge (CHOOSE 1)

• Ann B. Bianchi (Incumbent, Dem, WF): 73.4%
• Stephen P. Dewey (Rep): 26.6%

N.Y. supreme court justice — 9th judicial district (CHOOSE 4)

• John Ciampoli (Rep): 0%
• Francesca E. Connolly (Con, Dem): 71%
• Karen Ostberg (Rep): 36.5%
• John A. Sarconne III (Rep): 39.1%
• Larry J. Schwartz (Con, Dem): 72%
• Susan M. Sullivan-Bisceglia (Rep): 38%
• Rolf M. Thorsen (Con, Dem): 62%
• Charley Wood (Con, Dem): 68%

westchester county legislator district 5 (choose 1)

• Benjamin Boykin II (Incumbent, Dem, WF): 100% (uncontested)

SCARSDALE TOWN JUSTICE (CHOOSE 2)

• Jeffrey L. Levin (Dem): 89.8% (uncontested)
• Catherine C. Souther (Rep): 76.7% (uncontested)

Civics Jeopardy at SMS
Fall 2023

All 8th grade SMS students have the opportunity to test their trivia talents in the weeks surrounding the general election by playing a Civics Jeopardy game created by LWVS volunteers and SMS social studies teachers.

Are you able to identify at least two amendments that expanded voting rights? Can you name two of the five U.S. presidents thus far who lost the popular vote but still won the election? If not, you may not be smarter than a middle schooler!

Please contact LWVSyouthprograms@gmail.com for more information.