Review Study 1 - Barriers

• There are 2 barriers that are significantly more common: The inability to vote around a work schedule and standing in line for an hour or more. Both of these are issues with time.

• People of color are affected significantly more than their white counterparts.

• The poorest voters are twice as likely to find voting challenging.

• A majority of voters are in favor of making voting day a holiday, which has the potential to provide more time for voters.

• The significant racial imbalance within the republican party gives Republicans no motivation to reduce voting barriers.

Study 2 - Distrust and Cynicism

Review Study 2 - Distrust and Cynicism

• People choose not to vote because of a lack of interest in either candidate. This seems logical.

• A larger group does not vote because of a lack of faith in the system.

• Democrats led in nearly all measures of distrust and cynicism regarding government leadership.

• Democrats trust all services except the police. Whereas, Republicans overwhelmingly trust the police.

Actions and Potential

Eliminating Barriers

• Making voting day a national holiday - Reduces time-related issues

• Automatic registration at the age of 18 - Reduces ID, registration and “not on the list” issues

• Develop online voting - Reduces time and access issues
  
  
  

Reducing Distrust and Cynicism

• Political platforms more in line with voter concerns - Strengthens connection with candidates

• Political platforms that emphasize trusted services - Builds trust by focusing on existing trust

• More attention and education of voting for local offices - Reduces “my vote doesn’t matter” cynicism

Thank you!

This project demonstrates the following:

• The management and organization of a challenging dataset

• My philosophy of making the data learnable by translating it into simple terms

• The importance of organizing the data to make SQL writing simple and intuitive

• Allowing the data to guide the research by being exporable

• Simple visualizations supplemented with valuable text

• Clear findings, summaries and actions