Invisible Ballots and Help America Vote... on Paper!

Wed, May 17
7:30 pm
$5 donations accepted

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.

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.

Before and after the film, everyone's invited to indulge in our
Humanist Coffee House

$5 donation accepted

Venue:

Humanist Hall
390 27th Street
midtown Oakland, between Telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill
510-393-5685
http://www.HumanistHall.net

Click on the link "Directions" on our website

Additional Info:

510-704-0268
www.store.yahoo.com/realityzone/ballots.html and http://VoterAction.org