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Cuidemos el Voto

Campaign site for a citizen fundraising drive to cover rural voter transport in Colombia.

Started May 2026

Live at imprentarepublicana.co

Tech Stack

Frontend

Astro 5Vanilla JSSVG ink-distress filters

Typography

Alfa Slab OneSpecial EliteLibre BaskervilleCourier PrimeYellowtail (Google Fonts)

Data

Google Sheets (published CSV)Google Forms

Infrastructure

cPanel shared hostingGitHub ActionsFTP deploy

About

Campaign site for Imprenta Republicana, a Colombian political movement, built under a tight deadline for the second-round presidential election on 21 June 2026. The initiative collects donations to cover transport costs for rural voters who can't afford to reach their polling stations. In the first round, the campaign raised $29M COP and helped 3,742 people vote.

The design reproduces a Latin American political-poster letterpress aesthetic — woodblock typography with SVG displacement filters for ink texture, halftone photos, aged paper grain, and a carmin/green/cream palette. The visual direction was developed collaboratively using Claude as a design tool, prototyped as high-fidelity HTML/CSS, then ported to Astro. Operations were kept deliberately simple: the team updates a Google Sheet daily and the site reflects the latest numbers live — no rebuilds, no CMS, no code changes needed. The source code is public at github.com/MeClandestina/cuidemos-el-voto.

Features

Low-tech operations by design

The team are organisers, not developers. All updates happen through Google Sheets and Google Forms. The site pulls data live via the Sheets API on every page load.

Live transparency dashboard

Total collected fetched client-side from a public Google Sheet CSV. The team adds one row per day from their bank statements.

Three donation methods

Nequi QR + phone number, multi-bank QR + Zelle, and GoFundMe for international donors. No payment gateway — zero commission on direct transfers.

First-round social proof

Animated stat band showing 3,742 voters reached, $29M collected, $72M requested. Links to Drive folder with photos and receipts.

Voter transport request form

Google Form collecting location, transport type, number of people, and estimated cost.

Election countdown

Live ticking days/hours/minutes/seconds to election day.

Letterpress design system

SVG displacement filters simulate ink-bleed on display type. Paper grain overlays, halftone photo treatment, and five font families create a printing-press aesthetic without image assets.

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