Terms

Voting and learning are free. Anyone may vote in the site’s own elections and take every lesson without an account. The daily counts on those elections are today’s vote, for learning; the official count is the one taken on Official Mock Election Day.

Voters. We never ask a voter for a name, an email, an age, a grade or a school. The booth sets one random mark in the browser so a device votes once in each election; that mark is tied to no person. An organizer sees how many voted and the count, never who. A secure ticket is a number on a slip of paper; it says nothing about who holds it. Nothing about any voter is ever kept with a held or closed election.

Organizers. An organizer is whoever signs in and makes an election — a teacher, a parent, a club adviser, or a student 13 or older. The organizer is responsible for what their election says. Every election is checked by the booth before it opens. An election is closed, and the account that made it may be frozen, on four grounds only: it threatens anyone; it contains sexual content; it contains profanity or slurs; or it ranks, mocks or targets a named person who isn’t a public figure. Controversy, debate and strong opinion aren’t grounds — a race between real candidates, a ballot measure, a hard question are all welcome. When the booth holds an election, the organizer is asked what it’s for, and the election opens when it clears. A teacher or parent who wants a student’s election closed can write to vote@mockelection.com with the election number.

Reporting. Anyone can report an election from its ballot. Two reports pause it until MockElection.com has looked at it. Only MockElection.com clears a report.

Organizer Standing. New organizers’ elections are checked before they open. An organizer whose elections run clean earns Trusted standing, and their elections open on sight. An organizer who has bought a Classroom Pack or Election Month and verified their email is Verified from their first election. An organizer whose elections are closed for cause has every later election reviewed before it opens. Standing is shown on the organizer’s account page.

Tickets. A secure ticket is used once and never returns to your balance once issued. Tickets from a Classroom Pack or a book never expire. A Classroom Pack is one per account per school year; if a second is bought, its tickets are added.

Purchases and refunds. All sales are final. Tickets you have issued, used or not, aren’t refunded. There is one exception, and it is ours to honor: if the booth fails to run an election you scheduled, on the day you scheduled it, because of a failure on our side — including on Official Mock Election Day, November 2, 2026 — write to vote@mockelection.com within seven days and we refund that purchase. Classroom Pack, $10, 100 secure tickets and open elections up to 100 voters, is sold through Link, Stripe’s checkout, which is the seller of record and handles tax under its policy. Election Month, $99 per book of 1,500 secure tickets and open elections up to 1,500 voters, is sold by MockElection.com.

Automated use. Open elections are as many as you like within normal classroom use. Automated voting or election-making isn’t allowed; we close elections and accounts that do it.

No warranty. The site is provided as it is. We keep it running and keep backups, but a mock election is a lesson, and we make no promise beyond doing our best to keep the booth open.

Law. These terms are governed by the law of Ohio.

This page was last changed on October 20, 2026.