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UncountedTheMovie.com: Must Read: Influx of Voters Expected to Test New Technology (7/21/08) by Mary Mancini

A co-producer of the Uncounted 2004 election documentary expresses gratitude for a New York Times article warning of likely problems with the 2008 tally: "Although it doesn't offer concrete solutions, it is a must-read for every voter"—but Mancini finds that "while it is thorough, there are a few red flags." After noting that the Times' advice for voters to "check their registration with election officials at least two weeks before the polls open" is "too late, especially in states where the cut off for registering is at least a month before the election," Mancini then takes issue with a line describing how "shortages of paper ballots or electronic machines have been a common cause of long lines and people leaving the polling places without voting":

What this excerpt leaves out is that in the past—particularly in Ohio in 2004—voting machines were distributed in such a way as to create a modern day Jim Crow effect—systematically eliminating the votes of minorities. (Watch the Uncounted Jim Crow Segment for more detail).

See FAIR's magazine Extra!: Subverting, Not Preserving, Democracy: Marginalizing Vote Fraud 'Conspiracy Theories' (7–8/06) by Jon Whiten

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