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Title Electoral dysfunction / with Mo Rocca ; a film by David Deschamps, Leslie D. Farrell and Bennett Singer.

Publication Info. [New York] : Trio Pictures : [2012]
[distributed by] Filmakers Library, [2012]
©2012

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction DVD  DVD 324.973 ELECTORAL    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - DVDs  DVD 324.973 ELECTORAL    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 013100
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Description digital optical rda
videodisc
NTSC
video file DVD video region 1 rda
Videorecording
Audience Not rated.
System Details DVD-R.
Note Originally broadcast on PBS television in 2012.
Credits Co-producer, Mridu Chandra ; editor, Jay Keuper ; directory of photography, Joseph Friedman.
Audience Rating: Not rated.
Summary "The film opens as Mo makes an eye-opening discovery: The U.S. Constitution does not guarantee the right to vote. Mo sets out to learn why the Founding Fathers deliberately omitted the right to vote from the Constitution--and to understand the consequences of this decision. His quest leads him to Indiana, which has some of the strictest voting laws in the country. He meets two impassioned local activists--Republican Dee Dee Benkie of Versailles and Democrat Mike Marshall of North Vernon--who take him inside their efforts to turn out every vote. Dee Dee, a member of the Republican National Committee who worked in Karl Rove's office at the White House, has met her match in Mike, a veteran political consultant and former State Representative. Things heat up when the Republicans file a lawsuit challenging thousands of Democratic absentee ballots. As he progresses on his journey, Mo explores the heated debate over Voter ID and voter fraud; searches for the Electoral College; gets to know a former felon who mistakenly believed she was disenfranchised for life; critiques ballot design with Todd Oldham; and encounters a range of activists, experts, and election administrators, along with some highly opinionated third graders, who offer commentary on how voting works--or doesn't work--in America. Woven throughout the film are sequences in which Mo meets reformers working to bring greater fairness and transparency to our election system. Among these reformers are proponents of the National Popular Vote Campaign, who have devised a plan to reform the Electoral College without a Constitutional amendment. Although this pragmatic measure--which would result in direct election of the President--has already passed in 31 state legislative chambers, it has received scant attention from the mainstream media. These stories carry the film into the future while giving viewers concrete steps they can take to help bring about change." -- Provided by Producer.
Subject Elections -- United States.
Voting -- United States.
Politics, Practical -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government.
Genre/Form Television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Added Author Rocca, Mo, host, interviewer.
Deschamps, David, screenwriter, director, producer.
Farrell, Leslie D., screenwriter, director, producer.
Singer, Bennett L., screenwriter, director, producer.
Keuper, Jay, editor on moving image work.
Friedman, Joseph, 1922-2006, director of photography.
Chandra, Mridu, producer.
Trio Pictures (Firm), production company.
Filmakers Library, inc., distributor.
ISBN 6315201083 DVD 24.95
9786315201080 DVD 24.95
Standard No. 091037438669
00091037438669 gtin-14
091037438669
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