I recently watched and reviewed the new documentary Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections which premiered in Nashville last month. Emmy-award winning director David Earnhardt has generously given OpEdNews ten copies of the DVD to give away to our readers.
Uncounted is an important film, well-crafted and convincing in its portrayal of “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.”
Here’s all you have to do to be eligible for a copy of Uncounted. Contest portion: Do at least one of the following: • Enter a pithy slogan suitable for a bumper sticker describing the mess our elections are currently in • Tell us what you would do with the DVD • Give us an idea (or ideas) for how to get the message out to thousands (or even millions) of people at a time about the current election crisis. Be specific! Be creative!
Premium portion: Do one or more of the following: (Instructions below) • Make a tax deductible contribution by credit card, by PayPal, or by check for a minimum of $50 • Split a contribution with a friend for a minimum of $75 total
For extra credit: Feel free to do BOTH: make a donation AND enter the contest portion!
Deadline: Entries must be received (or postmarked) by midnight, December 17, 2007 so respond quickly.
Submission instructions: Email your contest entries to Joan@OpEdNews.com or include them with your contributions. Make checks payable to International Humanities Center/Citizens for Election Reform (or IHC/Citizens for Election Reform), and mail to: Joan Brunwasser, OpEd News, 4247 W. Grove St., Skokie, IL 60076.
Winners will be notified by return email. Good luck! We did a similar giveaway last year with Earnhardt’s Eternal Vigilance and got a great response. Can’t wait to read your creative entries and to receive your generous donations to support the work necessary to achieve safe, accurate and transparent elections. Thank you for caring. Your support is very much appreciated.
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.
Hi Joan, I am enjoying reading OpEd News. I have a free on-line e-newsletter entitled The Journal for Enlightened Education. which is primarily about education and the arts. In it we bring to our readers information about exciting and, in our opinion, enlightening things that are going on in the arts and in education, news, events, resources, jobs, funding, and humor and literary selections. Currently we have over 8,500 subscribers, nation-wide, with even several in other countries as well, and god knows how many readers who receive the newsletter as a forward.
If I receive a copy of Uncounted to review, I will gladly feature it as a resource for educators in our newsletter.
I hope you consider my entry sincerely. Peace and blessings Ronn
2) I would personally watch it, show it to my friends and colleagues (in the dept.) to see if they'd like to screen it in their classes. Many people here (at least in my dept.) teach very politically informed classes and might really appreciate such a resource to prompt a discussion
3) Contact college activism groups. Let them flyer all over campus and invite your organization to come speak to students and the community at large. Contact ambitious film-makers (pref. documentary) who are looking to attract wide audiences. Make voting fraud awareness(/action) lawn sign for people to place in their front lawns.
RW, MN
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Joan Brunwasser (133 articles, 3335 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 589 comments)
on Sunday, December 9, 2007 at 9:19:33 AM
Good stuff, thanks for doing this! I've seen the movie, it's really good! We showed it at a VoteRescue mtg! Just made a $50 donation. Going to send it to our Secretary of State.
Vickie Karp, VoteRescue (Texas) and VoteRescue Radio Where Citizens Count - One Vote at a Time. The show airs Sundays from 2-4 pm Central time.
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Joan Brunwasser (133 articles, 3335 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 589 comments)
on Monday, December 10, 2007 at 7:46:32 AM
1) Pithy slogan: US Election scorecard: Gore 1, Kerry 2
2) What would I do with the copy: I would use my projector to show it at a big screening for supporters of the Oregon Voter Rights Coalition and invite all clerks and election officials to attend. (Could we get rights to provide copies to such people? That might be a worthwhile service we would be glad to provide....)
3) How to raise mass awareness: Candidate's pledge. No voting for any candidate unless they take the Election Integrity pledge.
Thanks for your work! Ginny Ross Oregon VRC
Btw, if you post my comments just add that a draft of a Candidate's pledge was created by a group of DFA activists and is out there somewhere, but we all know what it should say. Absolutely no concession until all votes have been counted and a fully transparent and accurate count has been conducted. The Candidate must acknowlege that the race is not for the candidate to decide by concession or withdrawal, but for the voters to decide by virtue of a complete and open counting of the votes after proper access to the polls by all voters.
1. Pithy slogan: FIX THE SYSTEM----NOT THE ELECTION
2. Idea to get the message out: I think if everyone went to their local art film theater or owner-operated theater, or any auditorium equipped facility, (Liberal church, for example) and persuaded the manager or owner or head clergyman to show the film, that would enlarge the audience considerably.
3. I am already a monthly contributor to both OpEd News and the Humanities Center. Can't do more just now. :-(
4. I don't want to win. I already have a copy of "Uncounted", and I did donated another copy to the American Film Institutes's theater in my town of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Love you and love what you chose to do with your life.
Arlene Montemarano, MD
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Joan Brunwasser (133 articles, 3335 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 589 comments)
on Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 12:48:19 PM
