UNCOUNTED: Lest We Forget

I got a message a couple of weeks ago from a local progressive organizer saying that when he read the newspaper, he recognized names of people from our group that had worked together previously, and his heart sank as he read. The thing he had warned against had happened .. Obama supporters were very vocal. Clinton supporters were just as vocal. Support of one's candidate was fine, but this unique campaign had brought negativism down into the mud.

Then he began to remember - about the other side - the conservatives who want the negatives to go on right through the convention and election. If we hate each other, who wins? He thought about the voting machines and disenfranchisement. Then he took action. He got ahold of a film and invited everyone to see it.

The invitation to the film:

The film I am showing exposes how deep the election corruption goes. Democrats are not the only ones getting crushed by this corruption juggernaut. You may not want to hear about it or maybe you think you know all about it. I was wrong. So is everyone else. This is a much larger issue. I never wished this happened, but the proof is in this film. I spent my own money to purchase this DVD. I am not a rich person, but all I ask here is come and watch this film and talk about what this means to you.

This is the film:

UnCounted:The Movie

This is the trailer:

UnCounted:The Trailer

This is the "blurb":

UNCOUNTED is an explosive new documentary that shows how the election fraud that changed the outcome of the 2004 election led to even greater fraud in 2006 - and now looms as an unbridled threat to the outcome of the 2008 election. This controversial feature length film by Emmy award-winning director David Earnhardt examines in factual, logical, and yet startling terms how easy it is to change election outcomes and undermine election integrity across the U.S. Noted computer programmers, statisticians, journalists, and experienced election officials provide the irrefutable proof.

UNCOUNTED shares well documented stories about the spine-chilling disregard for the right to vote in America. In Florida, computer programmer Clint Curtis is directed by his boss to create software that will “flip” votes from one candidate to another. In Utah, County Clerk Bruce Funk is locked out of his office for raising questions about security flaws in electronic voting machines. Californian Steve Heller gets convicted of a felony after he leaks secret documents detailing illegal activities committed by a major voting machine company. And Tennessee entrepreneur, Athan Gibbs, finds verifiable voting a hard sell in America and dies before his dream of honest elections can be realized.

UNCOUNTED is a wakeup call to all Americans. Beyond increasing the public’s awareness, the film inspires greater citizen involvement in fixing a broken electoral system. As we approach the decisive election of 2008, UNCOUNTED will change how you feel about the way votes are counted in America.

This is from the Co-Producer:

Global Acceptance
We just received notice that Uncounted was accepted into the Globians Film Festival in Potsdam, Germany in August with an additional screening in Berlin at Babylon:Mitte, Berlin's preeminent art-house facility, in September.

Uncounted, International Film of Mystery!
But it's not just this one festival that has us excited. Uncounted has been shown by groups like Democrats Abroad at screenings in Germany, France, India, Spain, Mexico, Japan, Cambodia, and England, and individual copies of the DVD have also sold in Belgium, Canada, Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Switerland, South Africa, and Egypt. Upcoming international screenings include Melbourne, Australia at The Loop on May 28, Gottingen (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), Oxford and Cambridge (England), and Mubai and Chennai (India).

The Plural of Chad is Chad
Kevin Spacey was on Countdown with Keith Olbermann to promote Recount, the HBO movie about the Florida recount during the 2000 election. I know Kevin Spacey isn't an expert on all matters electoral, but it was still disappointing that Keith didn't take the interview one step further - the 2008 election. And its not just Olbermann. With all the publicity surrounding Recount, now would be the perfect time for the media to take the national conversation to the next level and ask the most logical follow up questions, 1) Why wasn't our electoral process equipped to handle margins of victory so small and margins of error so big in 2000?, and 2) Are we equipped to do so now? Watch the video...

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Mary Mancini
Co-producer, "Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections"
If you have not yet seen "Uncounted," please find a way to do so. Your vote is supposed to count and you expect it to count toward the candidate you support. But the voting machines are not reliable and they can be manipulated. They have been manipulated. Our democracy depends on the fair process of elections. This is not paranoid ranting. See the film. Then call your state and federal representatives. Insist that a paper ballot be available for each one of our votes in November.