You Want Fair Elections? Read, Watch, Listen, Learn, & Act

Posted by Mary Mancini on October 24, 2006 under Uncategorized |

There’s a movement afoot to reclaim elections for the people. Interviews, documentaries, blogs, articles, websites, toll-free hotlines. The problems have been identified. Listed below are interviews, articles, films and websites to fill you in.

Eternal Vigilance: The Fight to Save Our Election System
Wedesday, Nov. 1 and Friday, Nov. 3 at 6:30 PM (Free)
Earnhardt Pirkle, Inc, 2123 8th Avenue South
For advanced reservations e-mail david@EternalVigilance.us or contact Kris Rarick at 327.0600.
Attend a special pre-election screening of “Eternal Vigilance: The Fight to Save Our Election System, a new documentary by Nashville-based filmmaker David Earnhardt. Eternal Vigilance documents a myriad of illegal tactics and dirty tricks used to manipulate election outcomes by those in control of the election system. Beyond proving what is wrong with the system, Eternal Vigilance shows American democracy in its purest form by chronicling the struggle of a courageous few who seek nothing more or less than their birthright to honest, open, and accountable elections.

“Hacking Democracy”
Thursday, November 2 at 8:00 PM (more scheduled times)
HBO
Electronic voting machines count 80% of the votes cast in America today. But are they reliable? Are they safe from tampering? From a current congressional hearing to persistent media reports that suggest misuse of data and even outright fraud, concerns over the integrity of electronic voting are growing by the day. And if the voting process is not secure, neither is America’s democracy.

Liberadio(!) interview with Rob Richie, Executive Director of FairVote.org (original air date 23 Oct 2006)

Congressman Dennis Kucinich addressing the Floor of the House
“Mr. Speaker, today’s Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006 has nothing to do with protecting the right to vote and everything to do with restricting it. The real threat to our electoral system is not a contrived conspiracy of noncitizens illegally voting in Federal elections. The true threat is vulnerable electronic voting machines.

“Was the 2004 Elections Stolen?” by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Rolling Stone)
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted — enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.

“Will the Next Election Be Hacked?”, by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (Rolling Stone)
“Fresh disasters at the polls — and new evidence from an industry insider — prove that electronic voting machines can’t be trusted.”

BlackBoxVoting.org - Read about the problems in Shelby County, TN.

The tools to fix the problems are available but we must demand that they be implemented. Frederick Douglas said it best, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

*NEW* Election Reform Information Project
Tennessee for (IRV) Instant Runoff Voting
Fairvote.org
Verified Voting Foundation
Wheresthepaper.org - A Web Site Dedicated to Election Integrity

More to follow…please email mary@liberadio.com with additions to the list and I will post them.

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