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DESCRIPTION:DOUBLE FEATURE  Presented by Gypsy   INVISIBLE BALLOTS   This film by 
 William Gazeck covers the subject of voting and what goes wrong with it. It 
 illustrates the history of voting systems, the Help America Vote Act, 
 problems with electronic voting, errors and glitches in real elections, 
 fraud and tampering, conflicts of interest, and the voter-verified paper 
 ballot.. It raises the question: should voting be privatized? Featured 
 experts in the film include: Dr. David Dill, Professor of Computer Science 
 at Stanford University; Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Research Fellow at Harvard 
 University’s Kennedy School of Government; Beverly Harris, independent 
 investigator and author of Black Box Voting; and Dr. Avi Rubin, technical 
 director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University. 
   http://www.store.yahoo.com/realityzone/ballots.html   HELP AMERICA 
 VOTE... ON PAPER!   This short film by Ecological Options Network finds 
 that much of the uncertainty and ongoing controversy surrounding past 
 elections is rooted in the sheer number of lost votes, flipped votes, 
 failed audits, and plain old breakdowns occurring on the growing number of 
 electronic voting machines used throughout America. Under the guise of 
 mandating accessibility for disabled voters, the 2002 Help America Vote Act 
 (HAVA) is forcing a wholesale shift in how our votes are cast and counted 
 -- just in time for the 2006 elections. Vendors are leveraging HAVA’s 
 disability requirements to sell the exorbitantly expensive, less secure, 
 and unreliable touchscreen DREs (Direct Record Electronic machines) to 
 county elections officials around the country, when there are better 
 options already in use and available. You will see government reports, 
 experts, and governors on both sides of the aisle condemning touchscreen 
 DREs. They join a growing number of citizens who are demanding paper 
 ballots, optically scanned or hand counted, as the only way to allow for 
 meaningful audits and recounts. This film highlights the successes in the 
 history of voting rights movements and lays out the next steps for those 
 inspired to join the new movement now underway to restore basic 
 accountability and integrity to American elections. This film features: 
 Cynthia McKinney, Stephanie Tubb-Jones, Lynn Woolsey, Dolores Huerta, Bob 
 Ehrlich, Bill Richardson, and Lowell Finley, Election Law Attorney.   
 http://VoterAction.org   Before and after the film, everyone’s invited to 
 indulge in our Humanist Coffee House   $5 donation accepted   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/04/27/97873.php
SUMMARY:Invisible Ballots and Help America Vote... on paper!
LOCATION:Humanist Hall   390 27th Street   midtown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway, below Pill Hill   http:http://www.HumanistHall.net 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/04/27/97873.php
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