Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections
See It April 16 at the Hiway Theatre
Save the date!
Wednesday, April 16 at 7 pm at the Hiway Theatre, a beautifully restored community facility, at 212 Old York Road in Jenkintown. Tickets $8, available at the door.
With election fever mounting for the Pennsylvania primary, the Election Reform Network is proud to be hosting the Philadelphia area theatrical premier screening of UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections the week before on April 16.
UNCOUNTED is an explosive new documentary that shows in graphic detail the vulnerability of American elections and the inspiring stories of true heroes working in the trenches of democracy to protect the vote. It is a stunning wakeup call making it clear that this year, it is not enough to merely vote.
The screening is set for Wednesday, April 16 at 7 pm at the Hiway Theatre in Jenkintown. Join us and Emmy award-winning filmmaker David Earnhardt for a lively and strategic conversation afterward about what we can learn from the recent history of American elections and what steps we in the greater Philadelphia area can take now to protect the vote in 2008 and beyond.
UNCOUNTED shows well documented stories about the callous disregard for the right to vote. 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 vote 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 dreams of honest elections can be realized.
In Pennsylvania, a key battleground state in the Presidential election, 54 of 67 counties vote on paperless electronic vote machines, which are unauditable and unrecountable. Common Cause considers our state to be at "high risk" for compromised elections. Yet there are those who say that raising questions about election integrity and the formidable barriers to participation faced by many groups discourages people (despite mountains of evidence that the problems are real) and therefore undermines what we care most about - a full and fair vote. Better to pretend that there are no problems and urge people to vote and hope for the best, they say.
The Election Reform Network and the election integrity movement nationwide urge people to vote, and we will continue to do so - but not with their eyes closed! Democracy does not work very well when citizenship feels like sleep-walking. In fact, democracy is by definition an active process, something that we as citizens have to protect, nurture, even rediscover and reinvent periodically, or it starts to creak and crumble. This is one of those times.
Come and see UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections. You won't be discouraged; you'll be informed - and energized for change.
Save the date: Wednesday, April 16 at 7 pm at the Hiway Theatre, 212 Old York Road in Jenkintown. Tickets are $8, available at the door.
