Political advertising · 2026
Electile Dysfunction
Scott Petersen for Nebraska
Election reform is not usually played for laughs. Electile Dysfunction commits completely to the bit.
The story
Built as a pharmaceutical-advertising parody, the film turns voter frustration into a fictional condition with familiar symptoms: uncertainty, delayed results and declining confidence in the system. Scott Petersen’s election-integrity platform becomes the proposed treatment, complete with a prescription bottle, improbable side effects and the breathless qualifications of a television drug commercial.
The idea
The humor creates room for a detailed policy message without making the film feel like a checklist. Hand-counted ballots, risk-limiting audits, surveillance and public chain-of-custody records are presented as parts of one promise: elections that perform when voters need them to. It is an unusual contrast spot whose visual language is as committed to the argument as the copy.
- Client
- Scott Petersen for Nebraska
- Film type
- Political advertising
- Year
- 2026
- Location
- Nebraska