Concerned Families of Westchester is sponsoring the film Stealing America: Vote by Vote. At the Hastings library, 7:30 p.m. this Tuesday June 26.
The 2008 elections are fast approaching. Have the problems of 2004 been addressed? This is a great chance to see this important film.
STEALING AMERICA: Vote by Vote documents significant irregularities in the Presidential election of 2004. While raising crucial questions, interviewees underscore the fact that election fraud and election reform are not partisan issues. We follow the stories of people who face a spectrum of challenges: from trying to vote to grassroots organizing to groundbreaking legislation. The overriding question that the film presents is: How can we create an election system in which voters have confidence, and in which votes will be counted fairly?
Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which exists for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. We aim to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Electronic (computerized) voting systems are simply antithetical to democratic principles.
CER set up a lending library to achieve the widespread distribution of the DVD Invisible Ballots: A temptation for electronic vote fraud. Within eighteen months, the project had distributed over 3200 copies across the country and beyond. CER now concentrates on group showings, OpEd pieces, articles, reviews, interviews, discussion sessions, networking, conferences, anything that promotes awareness of this critical problem. Joan has been Election Integrity Editor for OpEdNews since December, 2005.
I know it's better late then never but don't you think a mature democracy would have settled how to vote safely and correctly by now? After all you've had 232 years to get it right!
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Archie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 904 comments)
on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 1:23:47 PM
the problem is that there are always interests that want to control what we've got (a billion dollar economy, etc.) and that leads to ever increasingly inventive and sneaky ways to subvert the vote without the average citizen ever being the wiser. computerized voting is perfect because few understand how it works and are naive enough to imagine that if our leaders put it into place, it must work and be fair. they certainly can't understand the silence from the Dems (to tell you the truth, I don't get it either) .
Joan B, voting integrity ed., OpEdNews
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Joan Brunwasser (132 articles, 3332 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 588 comments)
on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 5:45:39 PM
