How to create a public awareness campaign

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Public awareness campaigns can be effective in raising public awareness of the risks associated with voting fraud.
Such campaigns should be launched as quickly as possible during an election year in order to raise public awareness of the risks associated with voting fraud.
It is important to ensure that the campaigns are effective in preserving the integrity and agency of the people who are targeted.

In 1940, a group of 60 American intellectuals formed the Committee for National Morale. “They’ve largely been forgotten,” says Fred Turner, a professor of communications at Stanford University, but their work had a profound impact on public opinion. They produced groundbreaking films and art exhibitions. They urged viewers to stop, reflect and think for themselves, and in so doing, they developed a set of design principles that reimagined how media could make us feel more calm, reflective, empathetic; in short, more democratic.