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Showing "American Blackout" Tonight

By zappini
Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 02:55:37 PM PST
Section: United States Topic: Election Integrity

Political documentary American Blackout will be shown tonight at 7:00pm at Columbia City Cinema. This is part of the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival.

American Blackout details the systematic and widespread efforts to disenfranchise African American voters in Florida and Ohio during the 2000 and 2004 elections. This stuff is familiar to anyone who has read US Rep. Conyers' report What Went Wrong in Ohio (available online here).

I'm really sorry about the late notice. I either completely missed or spaced this event. My bad. (Now I have to choose between our LD meeting and this documentary.)

Many of us suspect these "dirty tricks" continue today.

In the run up to 2004's election, Greg Palast claimed that 1.5m voters had been disenfranchised before the polls even opened. I wonder what the estimate is for 2006?

There's allegations that Ohio Sec of State Blackwell has already purged 1,000s of voters this year.

kos and others have highlighted the efforts to disenfranchise Latino voters.

And, of course, everyone paying attention is very sensitive about the last minute challenges from last year and our Sec of State's efforts on the new state-wide voter registration database.

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