I’m not big on continuing traditions, but I am big on keeping promises. This update seeks to accomplish both.
So, to continue a “tradition” on this blog — and to keep a promise made in my previous post — I’ve linked some of the papers I wrote during my last semester of college. Especially in the essays written post-coronavirus, you can probably sense some of that senioritis setting in. But with around 10,000 words of content across these six assignments (again, senioritis), there should be something for everyone!
Simply click the links to be taken to the corresponding document:
- Summarizing my experiences with this blog and musing on the field of data journalism (this is my undergraduate thesis)
- Outlining the 2020 elections for President, House, and Senate in mid-May and from 30,000 feet. (Some of the analysis is a tad outdated today, unfortunately.)
- Overviewing three major electoral reform efforts in the United States: the role of money in politics, issues of representation, and ballot access
- Describing three proposed solutions to electoral reform: automatic voter registration, voting by mail, and the restoration of felons’ voting rights
- Proposing my own original electoral system that appears democratic but is actually corrupt. (This one was a lot of fun!)
First Past the Poll 