Exceptionally Close Race in the PA Youth Mock Election

Over 18,100 students signed up to vote in the PA Youth Mock Election, representing 85 schools from 26 counties. That was a nearly 10x increase from previous election cycles - thank you for bringing this to your students!

Remarkably, of the nearly 10,000 votes that were returned, the results were even closer than Pennsylvania's actual returns. This includes VP Harris defeating President-Elect Trump by three votes. Not 3%. 3 votes.

You'll note that a few of the races had winners different than the actual results - it seems like students are more comfortable with ticket-splitting than PA's registered voters.

C70 runs the mock election twice/year, every year. This includes the 2025 judicial and municipal primary in May. Sign up here to reserve your school's custom ballot for the spring.

See you in Boston this weekend for NCSS?

The Committee of Seventy will be just one of the PA Civics partner organizations attending the Annual Conference for the National Council for the Social Studies in Boston this weekend.

The National Constitution Center will be exhibiting in booth 417. They have two sessions: Storytelling and the First Amendment on Friday at 3:00p, and Constitutional Resources on Saturday at 2:25p. 

Generation Citizen will be exhibiting in booth 619 and leading a session on community-based action civics on Saturday at 1:15p.

Stop by Hall D from 1:20 to 2:15p on Saturday for a poster session from Dr. Mark Conlon of Pitt-Johnstown, titled "Building a Regional Culture of Civic Excellence."

The Jack Miller Center will be exhibiting at booth 719 – stop by to say hello, learn about their professional development programs, and pick up some JMC merch.

You can also check out exhibits from Founding Forward and the Bill of Rights Institute.

C70's Director of Civic Education, Justin Villere, will be in attendance. Shoot him an email if you're interesting in connecting (jvillere@seventy.org). See you there!