Thanks For Stuffing The Ballot Boxes For Us!

rita — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:09:09 GMT

Thanks for reading us, everyone, and thanks for voting for us too. We're thrilled to be in such august company as Taqueria Cancun and Green Apple Books (and Baker Beach, which has a on Best Nude Beach) -- and hey, Bruce Brugman, do we get invited to the Best of the Bay party and photo sessions too? Let us know!

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SF DocFest: Call It Democracy

rita — Wed, 18 May 2005 12:25:46 GMT

This was our first time at the Li'l Roxie, and we hope it won't be our last! (Please, please, say the rumors aren't true!) We squeezed past the teeny-tiny hallway and into a narrow, but comfy and well-proportioned closet, and settled in for SF DocFest electoral rage. We picked up a ballot on our way in -- an optical scan, where choices (or "ratings") are marked with a circle.

Call It Democracy, by Matt Kohn, is an exploration of the problem of electioneering in the 21st century -- from the oddities of the electoral college to Supreme Court shenanigans to missing electronic ballots to Colorado's electoral-vote splitting movement in 2004.

Okay, we're not too liberaler-than-thou to admit it -- electoral reform is really not the most interesting topic in the world to us. So it's with a great deal of relief that we can report that this movie is like one of those long DailyKos tinhat-wearing posts that you skip, or a long filmstrip with blue states and red states, or anything like that. The clips are interesting! The movie moves at a brisk pace! We didn't find ourselves trying to gouge our eyes out with a stick! That's good, right?

Cameos by stapler-throwers John Bolton and Kevin Shelley, after the jump.

Picture from cnn.com

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Thanks For Stuffing The Ballot Boxes For Us!

SF DocFest: Call It Democracy