Last Friday, we at OpEdNews initiated a contest to give away ten copies of David Earnhardt’s "-Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections. This documentary discusses election fraud in recent elections and what we can do about it. It’s a fine film and worthy of your time and attention. You can read my review or you can visit their website if you’d like some information or would like to order a copy of the DVD.
I wanted to give you an update on the contest. There were problems with some of the links, inadvertently making it challenging to navigate the contest. Still, we’ve done quite well since Friday. We have just two of the original ten DVDs left.
I’ve found the entries interesting so far. Geographically, the entries come from coast to coast and hit election hotspots like Sarasota, Florida and Riverside, California, as well as Texas, New York, Minnesota, Iowa, Oregon and Pennsylvania. The winners include two students, a few voting integrity activists and a number of just plain interested citizens.
I will write about their ideas and suggestions at a later date. Here’s a teaser: a bumper sticker I particularly liked: “Gore 1, Kerry 2”. See if you can top that.
The contest lasts until we run out of DVDs. I will recap the rules. Here’s all you have to do to be eligible for a copy of Uncounted.
Do at least one of the following: Contest portion: • 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: • Make a tax-deductible contribution by credit card, by PayPal, for at least $50
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 If you use a credit card or PayPal to make a contribution, we will be notified immediately by International Humanities Center, making you eligible to win the DVD.
Good luck! Remember:
Just say “NO!” to secret vote counting!
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.
