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. Here's all you have to do to be eligible for a copy of "Uncounted".Entries must be received (or postmarked) by midnight, December 17, 2007 so respond quickly.

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The Great Hanukah/Christmas/Kwanzaa DVD GIVEAWAY

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.

Just Say “NO!” to secret vote counting!

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Authors Bio:

Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of transparency and the ability to accurately check and authenticate the vote cast, these systems can alter election results and therefore are simply antithetical to democratic principles and functioning.



Since the pivotal 2004 Presidential election, Joan has come to see the connection between a broken election system, a dysfunctional, corporate media and a total lack of campaign finance reform. This has led her to enlarge the parameters of her writing to include interviews with whistle-blowers and articulate others who give a view quite different from that presented by the mainstream media. She also turns the spotlight on activists and ordinary folks who are striving to make a difference, to clean up and improve their corner of the world. By focusing on these intrepid individuals, she gives hope and inspiration to those who might otherwise be turned off and alienated. She also interviews people in the arts in all their variations - authors, journalists, filmmakers, actors, playwrights, and artists. Why? The bottom line: without art and inspiration, we lose one of the best parts of ourselves. And we're all in this together. If Joan can keep even one of her fellow citizens going another day, she considers her job well done.


When Joan hit one million page views, OEN Managing Editor, Meryl Ann Butler interviewed her, turning interviewer briefly into interviewee. Read the interview here.

While the news is often quite depressing, Joan nevertheless strives to maintain her mantra: "Grab life now in an exuberant embrace!"


Joan has been Election Integrity Editor for OpEdNews since December, 2005. Her articles also appear at Huffington Post, RepublicMedia.TV and Scoop.co.nz.