[HCCN] film: UNCOUNTED, American Elections, Blue Hill Sept 19

[J&P Robbins]

Peninsula Peace & Justice will show the film UNCOUNTED: THE NEW MATH OF
AMERICAN ELECTIONS,
Friday September 19 at 7:00 p.m., Blue Hill Library.
 
A review and link to interview with the filmmakers follows:
 

Behind the Curtain of American Elections: Nov. 2008 

"We have every reason to believe that the 2008 election is going to be
manipulated."
--Jonathan Simon, co-founder of Election Defense Alliance, a national
election integrity nonprofit 
"Stealing America: Vote by Vote"


Everyone I know lugs around a low-grade dread, like an undetected virus
invisible until the obvious outbreak, about the upcoming presidential
election. Many of us (including a surprising number of non-partisans and
Republicans) stoically retain the knowledge that something terrible
happened during the 2000 and 2004 elections. And then there are others,
myself included, who feel that nothing short of election-fraud occurred
during both elections. But what exactly happened (okay, aside from a
Court of five in 2000 throwing a victory party for GWB)? How can it be
righted? And who's going to do it? I mean, where's the "Deep Throat" for
"electiongate"? We are exporting democratic "ideals" to other countries,
like Iraq and the Ukraine (with its Orange Revolution), yet they have a
better voting system than ours. How can this be?

As increasingly they are wont to do, documentary filmmakers rush in
where the media fears to tread. "Documentary" set out to discover as
many election-fraud-related docs as we could find. By telephone, we
interviewed two directors and an executive producer of the two most
prominent efforts: "Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections"
(dir., David Earnhardt) and "Stealing America: Vote by Vote" (dir.,
Dorothy Fadiman; exec. prod., Mitchell Block). 

Personally, after screening these films, I couldn't decide if I wanted
to throw up my hands in despair and never vote again, or run out and
organize a 21st century Weather Underground. One can be mad as hell, and
swear she won't take it anymore, but, realistically speaking, what can
one person do? As frustrating and enraging as the revelations in these
films are, fortunately, they also provide specific and practical plans
of action for individuals and activist groups to increase vigilance and
ensure election integrity. For, as Earnhardt, Fadiman and Block concur:
it's all about grassroots organization. 
 
read the interview at:
 

http://www.womeninworldcinema.com/2008/07/behind-curtain-of-american-ele
ctions.html 

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