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Maine Mock Election Newspaper Clips
“The Maine Mock Elections Newspaper Clips” are a series of clippings from local Maine newspapers chronicling the lead up to the 1994 mid-term and senatorial elections. The clips look at mock elections from high schools across Maine and use them to prognosticate on the upcoming November 8 elections. Olympia Snowe would go on to win a senate seat and Angus King would also win his election to become governor of the state.
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Young Texas Voters
“Young Texas Voters” is a voter handbook issued in 1994, available in both English and Spanish, by the Elections Division of the Office of the Texas Secretary of State, in lead up to the November 8, 1994 General Election in Texas. . The guide is meant to provide voters with information about voting, the voter registration process, and the procedures that lead to a correct exercise of voting. Additionally, it contains an Election Calendar with the most important dates of the November 8, 1994 General Election in Texas.
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Electoral Training Project, Honduras, September to December 1993
This report summarizes IFES’ electoral training project in Honduras from 1993. The report discusses a variety of training topics including poll-workers training, diffusion instructors, local and departmental election officials and training chiefs, supervisors and instructor leaders.
December 31, 1993
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La Participacion sin Misterios
“Participation without any Mysteries” is an informative comic book, available in Spanish, issued in 1993 by the Santafe of Bogota Mayor’s Office as part of the “Viva Bogota Viva” program in Colombia and is intended to encourage citizens to participate politically and promote unity among communities. The handbook encompasses the main objectives of the instructive environmental program to be implemented by the Mayor’s office and it encourages people to share the responsibility of providing a healthy environment as part of the program.
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Que haces aca mita'i?
“1992 Constitution. What are you Doing Here, Kid?” is a civic education comic handbook, available in Guarani, issued in 1993 as part of the “Decidamos” Public Expression Campaign in Paraguay. The handbook is meant to familiarize Paraguayans with the new Constitution adopted in 1992 and to explain the democratic changes that stand at the basis of it. The comic briefly mentions the reason behind the adoption of the 1992 constitution and the advantages it would bring to the Paraguayan people.
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Tolerancia
“Tolerance” is a civic education material, available in Spanish, issued in 1995 by the “Decidamos” Public Expression Group in Paraguay in an effort to instruct young citizens on the issue of tolerance. The civic education material is part of the “Civic Education for a Democratic Coexistence” project in Paraguay that wishes to create an environment for the development of the values that consolidate the democratic culture of its citizens. The documents contains tolerance-related situation games and activities.
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Be a Good Citizen: Vote
”Be a Good Citizen: Vote” is a order form for a coloring and activities book, published by the Elections Office, intended to encourage youth to educate themselves about the role of voting.
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Civic Minded Students Help get their parents to polls
“Civic Minded Students Help get their parents to polls” is an article from USA Today published on November 2nd 1992, written by Dennis Kelly, which informs the reader of the Kids Voting Program where children may go to the polls on Election Day 1992 and cast unofficial ballots while their parents cast their votes for the Presidential Election in the USA. The article emphasizes the importance of youth education on civic participation and the electoral system.
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We the People… the Citizen & the Constitution
“We the People….The Citizen and Constitution” is a national program designed to educate American youth on the history and principles of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Provided by the Center for Civic Education in April of 1992, this document outlines the program’s curriculum, participation information, and contact information for each state’s coordinator. This program is funded by the US Department of Education.
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Your History as Theatre!
“Your History as Theatre!” is a pamphlet from April 1992, made in joint production by the National Assembly, the Director General of Elections in Quebec and the Minister of Education in Quebec, that provides plans for theatre activities to celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the Parliamentary Institutions in Quebec, coming up in 1992. The pamphlet is aimed at middle and high school students in the hope that this ‘historic theatre’ activity will raise awareness of the government system in Quebec.