»In which America is Stolen

I watched Stealing America, Dorothy Fadiman's documentary about the electronic voting irregularities in the 2004 US Presidential election. She skirts around some of the other problems with voting in the recent election, especially about how many inner-city voting precincts faced disproportionately lengthy waits (eight or more hours) to vote; disenfranchisement of US military personnel; and the unusual disinclination of mainstream American media to cover the electronic voting problems. The film does delve into the systematic and political problems with electronic voting, and exposes the grave doubts that many Americans have in the entire voting process.
I was amused and dismayed by the film's extensive use of footage from Comedy Central. Although the comedy bits from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert provided relief from the sometimes dry investigative commentary, they also made the gravity of the film weaker. The film only touched on Robert Kennedy's excellent Rolling Stone piece Was The 2004 Election Stolen? via his interview on The Daily Show, in fact.

salim filed this under media friendsy at 22h08 Tuesday, 24 October 2006 (link) (Yr two bits?)