Playing to Win with A Full Deck of Race Cards
Note from David Earnhardt, “Uncounted” filmmaker: Each week until the election we will release a clip from UNCOUNTED because now, more than ever, people need to see stories that will motivate them to stand up and help save our democracy. Please spread these clips around - to the bleary-eyed and the overworked; the uninspired and the skeptical.
WEEK 5: Playing to Win with a Full Deck of Race Cards
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On Election Day 2004, the most vulnerable Americans were the targets of massive and systematic voter disenfranchisement - long lines and other artificial barriers were manufactured to make it as difficult as possible for American citizens of certain targeted demographics to exercise their legal right to vote.
Why should anyone have to stay in line for 12 hours to vote? And with our busy lives and overwhelming responsibilities, is it even possibly to do so? Or is that the idea?
This week we get to know Jim Crow - the bully who can disenfranchise millions with one simple act.
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Weeks 1 thru 4: The "Whistleblowers Should Have Their Own Trading Cards. With Bubblegum" Series.
Week 1: The Ballad of Steve Heller
All he was doing was his job when Steve Heller found "smoking gun proof" that an electronic voting machine manufacturer was using illegal uncertified software in their voting machines.
Week 2: Million Dollar Programmer
Clint Curtis was asked to create a vote-rigging software prototype that he assumed would be used to try and "catch" would-be fraudsters. The truth, of course, was something completely different.
Week 3: Diebold’s Disreputable Distinction is Dead On Deserved
Ex-Emory County, Utah County Clerk, Bruce Funk, is the kind of man you wish was your grandfather - soft-spoken, kind, and able to recognize what has been called "the nuclear bomb of security flaws" in Diebold’s electronic voting machines.
Week 4: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
Nashville businessman Athan Gibbs had a question: Why, if you’re an ATM manufacturer, would you make a machine that doesn’t provide a paper trail and can’t be audited?