The Votng Booth

Noni was on Granny’s computer visiting the PBS site for children called The Democracy Project  http://pbskids.org/democracy/  when he told her, “Granny, I want to build a voting booth.”

She thought for a minute.

“OK, go upstairs and find the piece of cardboard under the train table.” He did and Granny showed him, and his sister Laurel, how a voting booth had to be private so that someone could vote without others knowing for whom they voted. The cardboard screen provided the privacy and a little chair held a box with a slot in the top, a magic marker, and a stack of “ballots.”  Two campaign posters from the web site were hung on the wall above, and the voting booth was in business.    

Voters could vote for: 

 
Noah

 or

                  

Laurel 

Granny told them they had to make a speech about what they stood for.

Noah proclaimed that,  “All bookstores should have more Bibles, story books, and kids’ books.”  That was his platform.

Laurel said something about “Horses,” so her platform became, “People should have more horses.”  That worked.

It was time to vote.

Granny voted first. Twice. Once for each of them.

Noah voted for himself and then decided his car collection should vote, too. [There were lots of ballots.] 

Laurel voted for herself, and her stuffed animals were allowed to vote also.

And then came the vote count. Noah declared that the one who didn’t win president could be the vice president. That sounded fair.

And the winner was…Noah with 10 votes, with Laurel pronounced vice president with 9 votes (since fewer animals than cars voted, it seems).   

There were fleeting emotions of Victory and Defeat,    

but they soon moved on to the next adventure…which was...the stuffed animal zip line! 
                                                             Believe it. 

        

    Children are a heritage from the Lord
                                        Psalm 127:3