[Voterescue] Watch "Recount" on HBO TONIGHT at 9 pm

[Karen Renick]

Hello, VoteRescuers on this day of remembrance,

This is a last minute reminder that tonight at 9 pm CST on HBO there 
will be a repeat showing of the made-for-HBO movie, "Recount", which is 
about the story of the Florida 2000 recount and the related court 
proceedings that took the decision of who won the election all the way 
to the Supreme Court. 

You might consider watching it if you have access to a TV with HBO. I've 
heard from several folks in the election integrity movement today who 
saw it last night and say it does a pretty decent job presenting the 
story.  The major draw backs, however, are that it (1) ends by leaving 
the viewer with the impression that our electoral and judicial systems 
still "work" just fine and (2) does not include anything about the 
National Opinion Research Center's (NORC) counting of _all_ the 
remaining rejected ballots during the year right after the election. 
Their result - that Gore /actually won/ the popular vote in Florida - 
was released in November 2001 and was totally lost in the chaos after 
Sept. 11. To this day, not very many Americans know this. What a huge 
missed opportunity that this fact  - and the purging of 50,000 eligible 
Florida voters from the registration rolls - didn't get mentioned.

To read more about the movie, you can go to: 
http://www.hbo.com/films/recount/_._

To read more about the follow-up count by NORC, go to 
_http://www.hbo.com/films/recount/epilogue/index.html_  and click on the 
links in the article.

Karen Renick


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