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Monday's election was a chance to learn about voting for kindergartners.
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The kindergartners had a special ballot to vote for their favorite movie.
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The children stop to pose with some of the candidates in the town election.
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Checking in at the Senior Center's polling station.

Cheshire Kindergartners Get Lesson on Voting

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CHESHIRE, Mass. — Monday's town election was a chance for some of its youngest citizens to learn about an important civic duty: Voting.

The kindergarten classes of Robin Poirot and Heather Emerson walked through the rain from Cheshire Elementary School to the Senior Center to participate in a mock voting experience along with citizens of town.

After watching their teachers vote, each child gave their full name in order to check in. They were then given a ballot depicting four different current movies and they had to vote for their favorite. After voting in the booth, they put their ballots in the ballot box and received a lollipop and a sticker that said, "I voted!"

Students will find out about the results of their votes tomorrow.



Teachers followed up with an extension lesson on the privilege of having the right to vote.

The voting experience was organized by Cheshire's Town Clerk Christine Emerson.
 


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Trump Elected 47th US President

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

On Wednesday morning, some woke up with a sense of victory and others with a sense of fear.

Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Tuesday after a tight race with Democrat Kamala Harris. According to the Associated Press, Trump has secured 51 percent of the vote to Harris' 47.5 percent.

Trump has 292 of the required 270 electoral votes, with Harris garnering 224.

The former president delivered his victory speech in West Palm Beach Wednesday morning while the crowd chanted "USA, USA, USA." He called this the "greatest political movement of all time" and promised to deliver the "golden age of America."

"We're going to help our country heal. Help our country heal. We have a country that needs help and it needs help very badly. We're going to fix our borders. We're going to fix everything about our country," Trump said.

"We've made history for a reason tonight and the reason is going to be just that we overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible and it is now clear that we've achieved the most incredible political thing."

Harris was to deliver a concession speech at 4 p.m. at Howard University in Washington.

AP called this an "extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts."

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