Research has found that voting is a habit that must be learned early. By implementing a Kids Voting program, students learn about the voting process and civic responsibility, and will more likely become informed and civic-minded adults who will take an active role in the democratic process. Jeannie Mauldin, an educator at Rosemont Elementary School, submitted this effective practice in March 2002, after her school in LaGrange, Georgia, helped increase voter turnout in the district by 7 percent, providing absentee ballots to students from precincts that had not yet adopted a Kids Voting program.

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