Dozens of Mexican students and young people were given a crash course in U.S. electoral procedure at an election night reception organized by the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara and held at the Instituto Cultural Mexicano-Norteamericano.
As the election results trickled in on Tuesday evening, several hundred guests crammed into the language institute’s main auditorium that had been fitted out with screens and monitors relaying live television and Internet feeds from both Mexico and the United States.
“We wanted to reach out to a different group and make it a more inclusive experience,” said Consulate Public Affairs Officer Matt Conoley, on the decision not to invite “VIPs” as in previous years.
Consulate staff even set up a voting urn in which guests deposited ballots for either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.
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