NPR -- Mark Crispen Miller and a WHOLE SHOW on voting

[nashville_brook]

On Point with Tom Ashbrook! it's LIVE now -- 10 am eastern.

http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2006/10/20061030_a_main.asp

Sean Greene, Director of Research at "electionline.org"


Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Culture and Communication at New York University & author of "Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too"


John Fund, Columnist for The Wall Street Journal & author of "Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy"


Avi Rubin, Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University & author of the recently-released "Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting".

[mod mom]

1. Great! Pls fill us in!

[nashville_brook]

2. there will be an archive later... but

it was a wide-ranging discussion and even tho it was an hour-long, it was fairly shallow. MC Miller was forceful and brilliant as usual, but the overall meme that emerged seemed to be "nothing to see here."

then... the Video The Vote spokesperson came on and that seemed to spark some excitement b/c the promise of video later means that no one has to go out on a limb now and take a stand on election abuses.

they didn't talk about disenfranchisement.
they didn't talk about purges.

they DID talk about the potential for VOTER FRAUD, as in those pesky dead people. take note... that's the Repub double-back...

[eomer]

3. The archive is up now, at the link in the OP (eom)

[mod mom]

5. Thank you.

[nashville_brook]

4. this is a meme watch... elections next week... what's the talk?

the good news: it's being COVERED before the election.
the BAD news: the emerging meme is GLITCHES (if this show and the Sunday paper here in Orlando is any indication).

i'm worried that the Video The Vote movement is being used as a crutch. "Well, if anything goes wrong, our video people will be out there to catch it." hopefully the VTV people will catch some decent footage -- but FUCK! this is cold comfort for the future of democracy.

[garybeck]

6. great! added to the Election Multimedia Library!

at
http://www.solarbus.org/election/multimedia.shtml