afghan elections poster: process
With this project, my goals were as follows:
- to work with a large amount of diverse content in the same space
- to bring awareness to the topic by making it more immediately relevant to Americans
- to visually depict the ridiculousness of the so-called elections
With these goals in mind, I began compiling my research and making initial sketches. Early on in the process I made a large-scale butcher paper sketch to begin thinking about organizing the large amount of content.
(above) According to one source, there was a registered voter in Kandahar named Britney Jamilia Spears. It appears that creating fraudulent voter registrations was terribly easy, and since the registries went mostly unsupervised, there was no chance of repercussions for doing so. As many as 1 in 5 of “registered voters” were either non existent, dead, or under the legal voting age.
To display this, I created an infographic to represent the number of people in Afghanistan (many did not vote for lack of safe polls or general apathy), the number of registered voters, and the number of votes that were assumed to be fraudulent.
Here are my infographic ideas and the one that exists on the final poster:
Another infographic from the final poster:
