CSPE Action Project

CSPE Action Project

Advertising Committee

• Speak to the two candidates about what they wanted on their posters
• Come up with a design for the posters
• Draw and design the posters
• Colour the posters
• Choose locations around the school where the posters would be seen
• Hang up the posters

Title of Action Project

Committees

Polling Card Committee

10 committees in total

"Mock Election"

• Collect data from Register of Electors Committee
• Designed the polling cards
• Each polling card had the name, address and date of birth of the voter and the venue for the election.
• They had to distribute the polling card to each voter
• At the election, they took the polling card and gave each voter a ballot paper

• Advertising Committee
• Polling Card Committee
• Ballot Paper Committee
• Ballot Box Committee
• Presiding Officers Committee
• Register of Electors
• Campaign Committee
• Candidates
• Count Committee
• Announcers

Ballot Paper Committee

Why you chose this action project

• Designed the ballot paper
• Made the ballot papers
• Each ballot paper had the candidates name and issues on the card, aswell as two boxes to number the vote

• We studied the Democracy section in CSPE class. We were interested in the election process so we decided to run a Mock Election as our Action Project.

• There were local elections taking place at the time so this made us even more interested.

Ballot Box Committee

Presiding Officers Committee

• In charge of setting up the venue
• Set up a curtain for privacy
• Made sure no-one had two votes
• Guarded the ballot box

• Had to ask the Woodwork teacher to help with making the box
• Get wood from the Woodwork Room
• Buy a hinge and a lock
• Design the box - it had to have a slot in the top to put the papers in
• Make the ballot box

Campaign Committee

Register of Electors

• Worked with their candidate to promote and advertise them
• Supported their candidate throughout the election

• Had to collect the details of all voters - name, address and date of birth
• Had to arrange them alphabetically to make the Register of Electors
• Passed these details onto Polling Card Committee to make the polling cards

Candidates

Count Committee

• Count the votes when the voting was finished
• Make sure that the voting process was fair and that any spoiled votes were thrown away

• A
• B

Committees

Announcer

• Announce the candidate who was successfully elected at the end

Get into your committee groups to work on Questions 4, 5 and 6

Question 7

Reflection

The President of Ireland can only be elected for two terms and each term is seven years long.

A spoiled vote is a vote that cannot be counted because it has been interfered with or wrongly marked.

You need to have at least three reflections with reasons in this section

The Seanad is less powerful than the Dail. It has 60 senators. Their main purpose is to review bills.

To ensure the vote is private, you must vote in a polling booth.

A democracy is a state that, in order to change the constitution, a referendum must happen so that the people can have a say. Ireland is an example of a democratic country.

reflection

A referendum is a special vote which allows the people of the country to have a say in whether the constitution should be changed or not.

You must be 18 years or over to vote in an election.

A coalition is when two parties get elected to government because one of them does not get the majority of the vote.

e.g. I enjoyed doing this Action Project because I learned about the process involved in running an election. I now know how an election is run.

The Aras an Uachtarain is where the President of Ireland lives. It is located in Pheonix Park in Dublin.

Before an election, those who are registered to vote receive a polling card. The voters name and address are on them and on the day of the election, the voter must bring the polling card with them.

A candidate has to reach a certain number of votes to be elected - this is called a quota.

reason

Proportional representation is the system of voting in Ireland. This allows the voter to indicate his/her first choice of candidate, second choice, and so on.