---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 21071"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "21071"
heading: "National Student and Parent Mock Election"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/21071"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 209 — Election Administration Improvement"
  - "Subchapter II — Commission"
  - "Part D — Election Assistance"
  - "Subpart 6 — national student and parent mock election"
---

# §21071. National Student and Parent Mock Election

- (a) **In general—** The [Election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) Assistance Commission is authorized to award grants to the National Student and Parent Mock [Election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1), a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to promote voter participation in American [elections](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) to enable it to carry out voter education activities for students and their parents. Such activities may—
  - (1) include simulated national [elections](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) at least 5 days before the actual [election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) that permit participation by students and parents from each of the 50 [States](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) in the United States, its territories, the District of Columbia, and United States schools overseas; and
  - (2) consist of—
    - (A) school forums and local cable call-in shows on the national issues to be voted upon in an “issues forum”;
    - (B) speeches and debates before students and parents by local candidates or stand-ins for such candidates;
    - (C) quiz team competitions, mock press conferences, and speech writing competitions;
    - (D) weekly meetings to follow the course of the campaign; or
    - (E) school and neighborhood campaigns to increase voter turnout, including newsletters, posters, telephone chains, and transportation.
- (b) **Requirement—** The National Student and Parent Mock [Election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) shall present awards to outstanding student and parent mock [election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) projects.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–252, title II, § 295, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1703.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 15471 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.