Client: SaveTheWest.com, an activist website I designed, and edited for seven years
Summary: This was my first “social justice” project, created to use satire to raise awareness of the phenomenon of dead people voting in US elections, on a non-partisan basis
Background
Starting in early 2016, I began receiving tips from activist colleagues about organized efforts to cast ballots in the names of dead people. I found it hard to believe, and challenged the tipsters to provide credible proof of what they were alleging.
After seeing numerous stories in reputable local media outlets across America, I noted that there was virtually zero national coverage of this phenomenon. I then began doing some research, and organizing the articles and media I obtained into a simple database.
My creation of “The Coalition for Non-Living Americans”
I then suggested to the owner of SaveTheWest.com that maybe I could find a way to create a funny, nonpartisan means of packaging up the evidence I’d amassed, to alert Americans across the cultural spectrum of these efforts to sabotage our elections.
He agreed, and I then named the project, designed the logo and supporting graphics, and wrote the script for this 3-minute video, then produced it, on my own:
Here are the pages the video mentions:
- The Coalition for Non-Living Americans – Save The West
- RESOURCES: Coalition for Non-Living Americans – Save The West
My response to the push-back that my video received in certain circles on social media
After the video was formatted for, and posted on social media, the owner of SaveTheWest.com and I started getting backlash, that we were just Trump supporters,spreading lies to undermine Americans’ confidence in our electoral systems.
As a Never-Trumper (and fiercely against the Democratic Party, as well), I wrote this to clear the air, provide my evidence, and affirm the urgent need to ensure that this kind of election sabotage cannot be allowed to continue: