Capstone Project Proposal – Voting

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In the spirit of the current midterms that are occurring right now, I’ve decided to make my capstone project about the importance of voting, not only for presidential elections, but for the lesser viewed midterms, which are just as important. For this project, I’ll be creating an infographic to show different demographics and recent voting turnouts in past years, along with an animation about the importance of voting and what the different elections are for and who they elect. I plan on connecting my animation and infographic together by using some of the same imagery in both. In my infographic, I would show which states are typically blue, which ones are typically red, and which ones are swing states, and what swing states mean. I would sum it up to what the most important need-to-know information, and would explain things like how the electoral college is the deciding factor of who wins the Presidential Election. I’d write it out as if I was explaining to someone who had never voted before, or was from a different country and wanted to know more about how we conduct voting here. In the animation, I’d go more into detail about how different states conduct voting differently, like how some states have mail-in ballots, as well as where to go to vote in person and how to register online. I’d like to talk about the different parties that aren’t democratic or republican and are also represented on ballots, since most new voters probably don’t know what these parties stand for or who they tend to align with.

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