Mock election

The elections aim to give the participants an understanding of democracy, the role of government and parliament.

The experience helps encourage future young voters to cast a ballot.

This election featured 4 pretend political parties and randomly-selected high school students as candidates.

In the painting, which is not very subversive to the status quo, is a red flag-like banner that reads "Liberty of the Subject", whilst showing some chaotic frivolity and sherry glasses, and a gilt or bronze-tipped policeman's truncheon with a decorative bow.

Turnkeys (guards) participated in the revelry but the governor faced censure and questions in parliament.

A mock voting booth at a US elementary school
The Mock Election by Benjamin Robert Haydon , depicting a mock election in a British debtors prison, 1827.