Get It Right!

Directed and Produced by: Dorothy Fadiman

Genre: Documentary, 2008

The Queen and I attended a WMNF screening of Stealing America: Vote by Vote at the historic Beach Theatre. Being able to attend an important film in this historic theatre (est. 1939) benefiting "the greatest little radio station on Planet Earth" (http://www.wmnf.org/) was too good to pass up. That having been said, clearly I have to improve on date night. We spent a good portion of the last flick we saw together, Body of War (http://www.bodyofwar.com/) fighting back tears as we watched the story of Tomas Young, a combat veteran who was tragically paralyzed after taking a bullet to his spine less than 1 week after arriving in Iraq. Yes, maybe one of these days, I'll have to take this lovely lady to a comedy or something. When is Jennifer Anniston's next movie coming out? How about old reliable Hugh Grant? What's that lazy ass Costner doing these days?

Stealing America takes a no nonsense, direct approach in its examination of some of the events that have transpired over the last decade to create a cloud of suspicion that currently envelops the electoral process in this country. The film combines raw data, statistical analysis, eye witness accounts, professional opinions and sworn testimony to present the argument that in all likelihood, an untold number of votes have been compromised in many states over the last several elections. Some of the anomalies, as they are referred to in the film include, voting machine and server “malfunctions”, purged voter rolls, vote switching, machine shortages in predominantly urban areas (I’m sure this was merely a coincidence) and perhaps the granddaddy of them all Diebold! Yes Diebold, the touch screen kingpin that has maintained a virtual stranglehold on voting technology and who incidentally has been a major contributor to the GOP.

There is a lot of information packed into 90 minutes and unfortunately, it barely scratches the surface. This is fairly new territory in America and although there are people hard at work trying to bring some much needed transparency to the process, there is a long way to go before the vote is returned to the people. Not surprisingly touch screen giants have been especially guarded and less than forthcoming when pressed for answers to which I say, "pull the plug on those sons-a-bitches"! Give me a pregnant chad any day of the week. In fact, take a week (or 2) to count ALL of the votes IN PUBLIC and get it right. Screw this business of Fox, CNN and whoever else trying to project and predict results before the final vote count is in. This isn't derby day or two for one well night at the local dog track. Get it right!

It's outrageous. What the hell happened? How did we get here? Is this really occurring here, in the United States of America? This is unacceptable. Put the coffee on ladies and gentlemen and count um’ up one by one. Get it right!!

-A