Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections
by David Earnhardt
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Actor: Bev Harris, Brad Friedman, Cynthia McKinney, John ConyersDirector: David Earnhardt
Brand: WEA DES Moines Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 81 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 47
Studio: The Disinformation Company
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- UNCOUNTED is an explosive new documentary that shows 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. The controversial feature-length film by Emmy award-winning director David Earnhardt examines in factual, logical, and yet startling terms how easy it is to change electi
DVD Reviews of Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections
DVD Review: A fine documentary on one of the most serious threats to democracy in America
Summary: 5 Stars
It is astonishing to me that even today a huge number of people are unaware of the huge number of problems that occurred in the 2000 and 2004 elections. As one of the interviewees in this documentary explained, there were over fifty tactics used in Ohio in 2004 to alter the outcome of the election. The evidence is overwhelming that the election outcome in both 2000 and 2004 was manipulated. The result was that George W. Bush "won" both elections. Actually, the efforts in 2000 would not have been successful had the U. S. Supreme Court not intervened to stop the recount in Florida. One of the most underreported news stories of this decade is that the Republican appointed judge in Florida was going to order a recount that took into account all under votes and over votes. The result, based on the NORC analysis of the ballots, would have been a several thousand vote victory for Al Gore.
The documentary does a good job of outlining several ongoing problems that affected the outcomes of the 2000 and 2004 elections. These can arise again if two things happen. First, there have to be enough states in play to make stealing votes a viable strategy. In 2008 Obama had way too great of a lead over McCain to make it possible to steal. But there is a second major consideration. The Right (and every bit of evidence indicates that the vast majority of the vote stealing is generated by the Right) did not really embrace McCain. If in 2012 Obama has less of a lead and the Right has a candidate that it likes, they will engage in the kind of ruthlessness (ruthlessness justified by the Manichean view of the world whereby they see themselves as the forces of good able to do anything to defeat the powers of evil, even if it means thwarting the popular will and stealing elections) that they did in 2000 and 2004. The film details such strategies as undervoting (where someone votes for other offices but not for president, which in some states resulted in huge vote losses for Democrats, like in New Mexico in 2004, where over 20,000 undervotes occurred, in a state where Bush won by only 5,000 votes -- but remember, this is only votes stolen by undervoting). What they did not fully explain in the documentary is that these tactics can usually only succeed in states where those stealing the votes also control the State's Attorney's office. This was a major factor in the Republicans winning, despite exist polls, in Ohio in 2000 and 2004, but not in 2008, when the exit polls and the final vote tallies corroborated one another. Key state officials, most notoriously Ken Blackwell, were accused of disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters and his office was responsible for the distribution of electronic voting machines. This meant providing large numbers of voting machines for predominantly GOP voting districts but exceptionally few machines for Democratic districts. The film shows the long, long lines of the 2004 election in Ohio, lines that were created by Ken Blackwell. In 2008, however, with a Democratic Secretary of State, there was a more equitable distribution of voting machines.
The film explains some of the problems with electronic voting machines. Their lack of clarity is terrifying. The New York Times did a great column a few years ago contrasting electronic voting machines with slot machines in Nevada. The article went into great detail about the tests that state officials submit the machines to. They examine the source code in excruciating detail, while Diebold has not allowed anyone to examine their source code. Diebold and other electronic voting machines are intensely secretive and do not allow their machines to be examined in detail, in contrast with slot machines, about which we know virtually everything.
What is scary is that the documentary barely touches on vote suppression techniques, such as the constant purging of voter rolls. The GOP strategy in the past decade has been to form a coalition of special interest groups, enough to get close to the margin needed to win, while trying to disenfranchise as many likely Democratic voters as possible. Republican Secretaries of State across the U.S. engage constantly in huge voter purges, without informing those removed from the rolls that they have been so removed. When they show up to vote, they are unable to. The trends of the two parties has been very different. Democrats want to enfranchise as many people as possible and get them out to vote, while Republicans want to turn out their base while reducing the number of registered voters likely to be Democrats. There have been a long string of such stunts by the GOP, while relatively few on the side of the Democrats. The biggest controversy being the registration of people either already registered or nonexistent by ACORN paid workers, though there is no evidence that the falsely registered voters actually voted, leading most observers -- though not fringe journalists like Glenn Beck -- to conclude that these ACORN workers were simply trying to get their sheets filled up so that they could break off work more quickly. But what is lost in the ACORN controversy is the huge disparity in numbers. The number of invalid ACORN registrations ended up at around a couple of thousand, while nationally hundreds of thousands of voters beyond expected numbers have been purged from voter rolls. The GOP strategy has been obvious: reduce voter roles, dissuade people from voting, limit their ability to vote by not placing sufficient numbers of machines in heavily Democratic areas, and steal votes both by use of software (such as the counties where Bush received more votes than there were voters by an 8 to 1 margin) and manual means. The result is a strategy of undermining the will of the people.
I completely agree that this should not be a partisan issue. I am opposed to all rigging of elections. While recent accusations of vote fixing has been overwhelmingly directed at the GOP, if the Democrats began doing it on the scale that the GOP currently has (I'm sure that some Democrats have done this on a local level, though there has been little evidence of anything significant recently). I want everyone who wants to vote to be able to vote and I want their votes to be counted. One reason I turned against Bush in November of 2000 (before that I bought his moderate rhetoric) was his opposition to any recount. This runs counter to everything that I believe as an American. I could have tolerated his winning if the recount had taken place and it had showed him the victor (ironically, under 8 possible recount scenarios in Florida, Gore would have won, the only one under which he would have lost being the recount that his team was requesting -- we know, however, that the judge in charge of the recount was not going to carry out Gore's recount, but a more wide ranging one that would have given him the victory).
There are so many things that we could do to make the nation a more effective democracy. I believe that all Americans should be automatically registered to vote. Tie it to social security. Have the voting machines run by the federal government instead of private industry and if the government buys privately produced machines, demand complete access to the source code and make sure it is safe. Have absolutely no voting machines that do not also have paper ballots. When hearing all these crimes against the democratic process, I keep wondering what someone like Thomas Jefferson would think. He believed that there could be no successful democracy without an educated citizenry. Now we not only have an increasingly unenlightened electorate but a corrupted voting process in which huge numbers of Americans are denied their right to vote. Until we demand a safe and protected voting process democracy itself is in danger.
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