User:Maho713
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 | This user is an undergraduate student double majoring in Law and Geography. |
I mainly work on articles regarding Costa Rican elections, mainly because I am from there and I admire our exceptional electoral history and believe the Wikipedia articles or our elections should be put to a level of quality that reflects it. But if you want me to help with other countries' elections (or any article) I'm here to help.
I'm double majoring in both Law and Geography, believing firmly in Interdisciplinarity. My favorite branch of Law is Constitutional Law (in case you're wondering that's the branch that regulates Costa Rica's electoral system, aka, the Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica).
Medium-term plans include finishing all Costa Rican elections after 1949, and eventually moving on to make an extensive overhaul of the articles regarding Costa Rica's major public institutions (we literally have over 300 even though we're 5 million inhabitants in 51 100 km2). I'll only cover the most important ones, like the Constitutional Chamber, the Procuraduría General de la República (General Attorney? Idk, it's hard to translate Civil Law terms to Common Law terms hehe), Ombudsman, Comptroller General, and obviously revamp the Legislative Assembly article. Basically my aim is to have Costa Rica's articles to the same level of quality of the articles of the developed world's institutions.
P.D: In case you're wondering why there's so little information regarding Costa Rica's elections before 1949, it's because it borderline impossible to find verifiable information regarding them. You see, before 1949 Costa Rica was actually a terrible place psephologically; fraud and voter supression were extremely common (plus all ballots were burned after the election to avoid investigations), couple that with the fact that we're in Central America so communication and preservation is still to this day lacking in comparison to the rest of the world. Actually, the TL;DR explanation for why our 1948 Civil War happened it's that the Social Democrats and the Liberals were tired of the electoral fraud committed by the Christian Democrats and Communists (even though the Liberals also committed fraud??? Except for Ricardo Jiménez, he was the only transparent guy).