MOCK ELECTION SET AT NEMCC

BOONEVILLE, Miss. -- Northeast Mississippi Community College students will have a chance to have their voices heard before the Nov. 4 general election.

The Iota Zeta chapter of Phi Theta Kappa honor society in conjunction with the Student Government Association (SGA) is sponsoring a mock election for Northeast students.

The election, which will be held on the school’s website (www.nemcc.edu), is scheduled for October 30.

“Our goal has been the same as it was with the Presidential debate and the voter drive,” said Phi Theta Kappa Vice-President of Leadership Brent Johnson, “and that was to encourage students to become more and more involved in the political process on campus.”

Students will have a chance to voice their opinions on who the next President of the United States of America will be, as well as make choices in the U.S. Senators and Representatives races.

Students will have the same chance, as they will at the polls less than a week later as the Northeast ballot follows the Mississippi Sample Ballot.

Students will get to pick from seven President and Vice-Presidential candidate -- John McCain/Sarah Palin (Republican Party), Barack Obama/Joe Biden (Democratic Party), Chuck Baldwin/Darrell L. Castle (Constitution Party), Bob Barr/Wayne A Root (Libertarian Party), Cynthia A. McKinney/Rosa Clemente (Green Party), Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez (Independent) and Ted C. Weill/ Frank McEnulty from the Reform Party.

Two U.S. Senatorial races will be on the ballot for NEMCC students to pick from.

The race between Republican Thad Cochran and Democrat Erik R. Fleming opens the ballot after the Presidential race while the hotly contested race between Ronnie Musgrove and Roger Wicker will see high placement to fill the unexpired term of Trent Lott.

The U.S. House of Representatives’ First Congressional race will also dot the Northeast mock election ballot.

Democrat Travis W. Childers, Republican Greg Davis, Green Party’s John M. Wages, Jr. and Independent Wally Pang will be the students’ choice in that race.

The mock election will mark the third political event held on the Northeast campus during the 2008 fall semester. Students have already been informed of their chance to make history with a Presidential debate and a voter drive that say almost 90 voters register for this year’s election.