Direct Cinema Limited in association with Abramorama & Mitropoulous Films presents a Concentric Media production STEALING AMERICA: Vote by Vote Narrated by Peter Coyote Directed & Produced by Dorothy Fadiman Production Notes 90 Minutes, Color, 35 mm www.StealingAmericaTheMovie.com www.StealingAmericaTheMovie.com/GetActive PUBLIC RELATIONS DISTRIBUTION: PUBLIC RELATIONS LOS ANGELES Direc t Cinema Limited NEW YORK Fredell Pogodin & Associates P.O. 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Box 10003, Santa Monica, California Phone (310) 636-8200; E-Mail: [email protected] CREDITS PRODUCER & DIRECTOR Dorothy Fadiman NARRATOR Peter Coyote MUSIC Laurence Rosenthal EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Mitchell Block James Fadiman CO-PRODUCERS Bruce O'Dell Carla Henry VIDEOGRAPHY Matthew Luotto & Rick Keller PRINCIPAL EDITORS Katie Larkin Matthew Luotto Xuan Vu Ekta Bansal Bhargava CONSULTING EDITORS Pam Wise, A.C.E. Kristin Atwell ASSISTANT EDITORS Roopa Parameswaran & Joanne Dorgan MOTION GRAPHICS Digital Turbulence Douglas DeVore & Wendy Van Wazer Laura Green & Matthew Luotto ADDITIONAL VIDEOGRAPHY Fletcher Holmes, Mike Kash, Jim Heddle, Steve Longstreth, Andy Dillon, David Frenkel William Brandon Jourdan, Domenica Catalano ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS Katie Larkin Robert Carrillo Cohen James Q. Jacobs, Theron Horton, Jo Killen ASSISTANTS to the PRODUCER Kristen Schultz Oliver & Laura Green FIELD PRODUCERS Kat L'Estrange, Marty Ward Rick Keller, Matthew Segal, Kate Barney ARCHIVAL TV FOOTAGE Lisa Rein & Pete Nicholls ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE “ORWELL ROLLS in his GRAVE” - Robert Kane Pappas Kerry to Bush Animation - www.boomchicago.nl Suzanne Patzer, Jamia Shepherd, Pat Leahan Jeremy Robins, James Seligman, Judy Rhee Catherine Murphy, Matt Ruskin, Katya Miller NARRATION RECORDING Rob Dickson POST-PRODUCTION SOUND OUTPOST Studios Re-recording Mixer & Sound Design - Dave Nelson Dialogue Editor - Miik Dinko MUSIC SCORING MIXER Dan Alvarez MUSIC CONSULTANT Lars Hidde ADDITIONAL DIGITAL POST-PRODUCTION R & R Studios Robert Strong & Jeff Chang ADDITIONAL EDITING Steve Longstreth, Robert Carrillo Cohen Robert Strong, Philip Safarik, Laura Green Ralph King, Byron Deming, Davinder Mahal RESEARCH Carla Henry, Jo Killen Victoria Parks, Jay McGowan Mary Anne Saucier SPECIAL THANKS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Marvin S. Putnam O’Melveny & Myers, LLP Kiersten Leigh Johnson Peter De Conceicao Elizabeth Anne Springett Employing first-person accounts, extensive research and telling clips gleaned from the nightly news, Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated social issue filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman shines a spotlight on the gritty reality of the last decade’s most egregious incidents of U.S. electoral insecurity. SYNOPSIS For more than 20 years, exit polls accurately predicted U.S. election results. Over the last 10 years, that reliability has progressively disappeared. What’s going on? The last two presidential elections both came down to a relatively small number of votes, and in both elections the integrity of the voting process has been called into question. With the upcoming election looking to be similarly close, the time has come to ask the questions: what happened in 2000 and 2004; what has changed since; and what can be done to ensure a fair and honest tabulation of votes in 2008? STEALING AMERICA: Vote by Vote brings together behind-the-scenes perspectives from the U.S. presidential election of 2004 – plus startling stories from key races in 1996, 2000, 2002 and 2006. Unbiased and nonpartisan, the film sheds light on a decade of vote counts that don't match votes cast – uncounted ballots, vote switching, under- votes and many other examples of election totals that warrant serious investigation. Throughout STEALING AMERICA, we hear from voters who experienced a wide range of problems, including those whose votes flipped from one candidate to another and those whose polls didn't have enough machines to serve the number of voters. Investigative journalists describe how their reportage on election fraud was sidelined. First-person citizen testimonies speak of waiting in line nine hours to vote. We hear how polling experts’ requests for essential information – such as precinct voting data necessary to examine irregularities – had been rejected, while ballots were being systematically destroyed, making audits impossible. In an effort to create the least biased and most balanced picture of this contentious issue, filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman has called upon experts from across the political spectrum, including: • Bob Hagan – Ohio State Senator and first-hand witness to on-screen vote switching. • Paul Craig Roberts -- Economist and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan and sometimes called the “Father of Reaganomics.” He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and Scripps Howard News Service, and is at present a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – Activist, author, environmental lawyer and co-host of Ring of Fire on the Air America Radio network. • Charles Lewis – Investigative journalist and former 60 Minutes producer. Founder, Center for Public Integrity. • Bruce O' Dell and Chuck Herrin – Fortune 100 company computer security analysts. • Greg Palast – BBC investigative journalist whose reportage on the issue made the front page in U.K. and Europe, but was suppressed in the U.S. • Dr. Avi Rubin – Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University. • Ion Sancho – Leon County Supervisor of Elections. Appointed by the Florida Supreme Court to count the votes in the disputed 2000 presidential election, Sancho blazed a trail in proving that it is possible to "hack" into voting machines and change the totals. • Dr. Jonathan Simon – Data analyst, who has been focusing on exit poll discrepancies. • John Zogby – International polling authority. • Dr. Victoria Lovegren - Senior-level data architect and systems analyst Case Western Reserve STEALING AMERICA unveils patterns of anomalies at every level of the electoral process. Controversial partnerships perpetuate a secretive environment, as relevant facts and figures remain hidden from view. As a result, most Americans have no real sense of the threat to free and fair elections. As seemingly unrelated pieces of the puzzle come together, a chilling picture emerges of widespread, artfully crafted "glitches" that, in the final tallies, have the capacity to alter election results. STEALING AMERICA: WHO IS WHO Kim Akins is currently acting as an administrative hearing officer for the Mahoning County, Ohio, Child Support Enforcement Agency. She earned her law degree from the University of Akron in 1989, and is a politically active, card-carrying member of the ACLU. Kim Akins Libby Anker begins a tenure track position at George Washington University in the fall of 2008. The focus of her research is American democracy. She completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. She subsequently served as the Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pembroke Center at Brown University. Libby Anker John W. Boyd has been a practicing lawyer since 1973, specializing in civil rights, election law, employment law and complex commercial litigation, including trials, appeals and class actions. He has had extensive involvement in election-related litigation, including ballot access, voter identification, redistricting and voting machine challenges. John Boyd Stephen Colbert is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning comedian, satirist, actor and writer. He is best known for his work on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and his own Colbert Report, as well as for his coinage of the word “truthiness.” Stephen Colbert Clinton Eugene "Clint" Curtis became a computer programmer in 1985 and has been responsible for successful deployments of database, prototype and document management systems for a number of businesses and other organizations. These include: NASA, Department of Human Services (Washington DC), Florida Department of Transportation, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, Florida School Food Service and Florida State Technology Office. Clint Curtis Since June 2003, Matthew Damschroder has served as the Director of the Franklin County Board of Elections as its Director. Prior to his service with the board, Matthew was Executive Director of the Franklin County Republican Party. He is a native of Columbus, Ohio. Matthew Damschroder Bob Fitrakis is the Executiv e Director of the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism (CICJ) and a Political Science professor at Columbus State Community College and CICJ. He served as an Election Protection attorney on November 2, 2004, in Franklin County, Ohio, and called the first public hearings on voter suppression and election irregularities. He has published