Title 52 — Voting and Elections
Part D · Chapter 209 — Election Administration Improvement
§ 21071. National Student and Parent Mock Election
Statutory text
In general
The Election Assistance Commission is authorized to award grants to the National Student and Parent Mock Election, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to promote voter participation in American elections to enable it to carry out voter education activities for students and their parents. Such activities may—
include simulated national elections at least 5 days before the actual election that permit participation by students and parents from each of the 50 States in the United States, its territories, the District of Columbia, and United States schools overseas; and
consist of—
school forums and local cable call-in shows on the national issues to be voted upon in an “issues forum”;
speeches and debates before students and parents by local candidates or stand-ins for such candidates;
quiz team competitions, mock press conferences, and speech writing competitions;
weekly meetings to follow the course of the campaign; or
school and neighborhood campaigns to increase voter turnout, including newsletters, posters, telephone chains, and transportation.
Requirement
The National Student and Parent Mock Election shall present awards to outstanding student and parent mock election projects.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Help America Vote Act of 2002
Pub. L. 107–252 title II § 295 · 116 Stat. 1666
Enacted · 52 U.S.C. § 21071
(Pub. L. 107–252, title II, § 295, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1703.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–252, title II, § 295, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1703.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 295. NATIONAL STUDENT AND PARENT MOCK ELECTION. (a) In General.— The Election Assistance Commission is authorized to award grants to the National Student and Parent Mock Election, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to promote voter participation in American elections to enable it to carry out voter education activities for students and their parents. Such activities may— (1) include simulated national elections at least 5 days before the actual election that permit participation by students and parents from each of the 50 States in the United States, its territories, the District of Columbia, and United States schools overseas; and (2) consist of— (A) school forums and local cable call-in shows on the national issues to be voted upon in an “issues forum”; (B) speeches and debates before students and parents by local candidates or stand-ins for such candidates; (C) quiz team competitions, mock press conferences, and speech writing competitions; (D) weekly meetings to follow the course of the campaign; or (E) school and neighborhood campaigns to increase voter turnout, including newsletters, posters, telephone chains, and transportation. (b) Requirement.— The National Student and Parent Mock Election shall present awards to outstanding student and parent mock election projects.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 15471 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.