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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008In 2004 massive get-out-the-vote efforts created a huge turnout on Election Day, bringing more voters to the polls than ever before. But in key states (and The Keystone state), many voters showed up at the polls and waited in long lines for hours only to later discover the voting machines showed many of them had […]
How to See Uncounted if You Can’t Make it to a The Damned Concert
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008UPDATED: As you know, Uncounted is screening on Starz at many set times in October, twice on Election Day eve (Monday, 11/3, Starz Edge at 9:40am and 7:35pm ET/PT) and four times on Election Day (Tuesday, 11/4, Starz Cinema at 11:45am and 8:35pm ET/PT and Starz Cinema W at 2:45pm and 11:35 ET/PT)
What you might […]
Uncounted Punk Rocks the Vote
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008When Pinch, drummer for the seminal and socially conscious punk rock band The Damned, emailed us last week, he made us an offer we couldn’t refuse. Would you like to expose 10,000+ potential voters to the issue of election integrity?
Why, yes, thank you. So, starting tonight in San Francisco, and for the first week of […]
The Powerful and Obnoxious Odor of Provisional Ballots
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008In their recent piece in Rolling Stone Magazine, Block the Vote, Robert Kennedy, Jr. and Greg Palast underscore Uncounted’s message about the duplicity of provisional ballots:
In 2004, an estimated 3 million voters who showed up at the polls were refused regular ballots because their registration was challenged on a technicality. Instead, these voters were handed […]
Ask These Questions, Hand-Picked Undecided Town Hall Audience, I Dare Ya
Friday, October 3rd, 2008The two major presidential candidates make their way to UNCOUNTED’s hometown of Nashville, TN and Belmont University on Tuesday for the second of three presidential debates, and we have a few suggestions for questions:
What can we do to stop the systematic disfranchisement that has plagued recent elections?
How can we assure that the person who wins […]
Real Americans Don’t Cheat
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008I can’t tell you how many times we get asked, with dripping skepticism, the following question, “If >>INSERT MOST OBJECTIONABLE PRESIDENTIAL OR VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF YOUR CHOICE HERE
UNCOUNTED Loves L.A.! (and San Diego!)
Monday, September 22nd, 2008We here at UNCOUNTED central believe that if Jed Bartlet had been our real President instead of just our happy place President, our broken electoral system would have been fixed long ago. But since he’s not and it hasn’t, our travels continue. This week we’ll be in the land of Martin Sheen, a.k.a. Los Angeles, […]
Pay No Attention to the Private Corporations Behind Our Elections
Thursday, September 18th, 2008All politics is local. Except the act of voting. Which may seem local when you go to your polling place and see your friends and neighbors and the familiar faces of your pollworkers. But the machines we vote on don’t come from the machine shop down the street. They come from large corporations such […]
Uncounted at AFI - The Wrap Up
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Last Tuesday night, the American Film Institute in Silver Spring, Maryland, hosted a near-capacity screening of UNCOUNTED at their Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD. And let me tell you, when you get 400 people who are pissed off about the lack of integrity in American elections all in one place, and then mix in […]
Uncounted to Screen at the American Film Institute on Tuesday, 9/9
Monday, September 8th, 2008The Man Wouldn’t Come to UNCOUNTED, So UNCOUNTED is Taking It to the Man!
This Tuesday, September 9, the American Film Institute will present a screening of UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections at their prestigious AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, Maryland…just a hop, skip, and a jump away from the […]