download and clean the data

[soodoku]

1. Download FL voting reg. data here:

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/UBIG3F

there are more states but let's start here.

2. Clean data:

some people use 1/1 etc. as fake b'day. investigate a bit and then let's remove those rows.

3. then the third step is simply checking the proportion of people who vote when election day in that year = their birthday vs. people with birthdays on any other day but especially with birthdays a day before or after the election day.

[j-leland]

A person is more likely to vote if election day falls on their birthday. However, the increase in voter turnout on a person's birthday is more significant for a midterm election year than a presidential election year.

Midterm election year Midterm election avg voter turnout: 49.81% Midterm avg voter turnout on birthday: 50.33%

Voter Turnout Day Before vs. Day After Birthday

Change in Voter Turnout from Previous Day (birthday +/- 30 days)

Presidential election year Presidential election avg voter turnout: 73.6% Presidential avg voter turnout on birthday: 74.06%

Voter Turnout Day Before vs. Day After Birthday

Change in Voter Turnout from Previous Day (birthday +/- 30 days)

Jupyter Notebook --> https://github.com/soodoku/birthday_voter/blob/master/voter_birthday_analysis.ipynb