Tune in alert for the new documentary film Electoral Dysfunction, which will air on PBS stations later this month. Hosted by political humorist Mo Rocca (CBS Sunday Morning, NPR's Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!), this irreverent but nonpartisan special explores what works (and what doesn't) with voting in America, and explores such issues as Voter ID laws, electoral reform efforts, ballot design, and grassroots campaigning. Electoral Dysfunction Trailer from Electoral Dysfunction on Vimeo. Electoral Dysfunction - Program Description There.s something funny about voting in America. For starters, where is the Electoral College - and does it have a winning football team? Why does America have 13,000 voting districts, each with its own set of rules? Electoral Dysfunction (PBS stations, Tuesday,...
- 10/9/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Title: Electoral Dysfunction Directors: Bennett Singer, David Deschamps, Leslie Farrell The title of “Electoral Dysfunction,” a new political documentary hosted by Mo Rocca, hints at a roiling discontent that isn’t much part of the tone of this irreverent, civics-minded offering. Sure, in offering up a look at the United States’ Electoral College process and the many weird incongruities that our general lack of federal voting standardization procedures elicit, co-directors Bennett Singer, Leslie Farrell and David Deschamps’ movie is very illustrative of the different political party mindsets when it comes to voter registration drives, absentee ballots and other mechanisms of induced greater election participation by citizenry. But this is an engrossing and eye-opening [ Read More ]...
- 9/26/2012
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
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