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The Day After

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on November 5, 2008

I have to check out of this beautiful Cleveland room and get back to L.A. to see my wife and dog at last, so I’ll keep this quick.

This has been an amazing experience since starting FREE FOR ALL! two years ago.  In that time, I have lost my faith in democracy and regained it.  I know well that this historic moment will overshadow the many thousands of voter problems experienced across the country yesterday.  At videothevote.org, we have received over 700 videos and counting from across the country.  The vigilance of Americans everywhere leading up to this election was a key component to Obama’s success.  I hope there will still be a sense of outrage in spite of complacency.

In Ohio, I literally met people who came here to Video the Vote because they saw my movie on line and wanted to do something because of it.  That is staggering.  I am grateful to every volunteer and supporter.

I am grateful to my producer Holly and editor Vivian for realizing FREE FOR ALL! with me.

I am grateful to anyone who was inspired by this film, every small screening across the country to a few fascinated faces, every anonymous digit on a traffic counter.

I feel the enormous freshness of letting myself off the hook to do something after 2004.  Now I feel like I can do this comfortably, not desperately.

Let’s get to work!

John Wellington Ennis

Cleveland, Ohio - November 5th, 2008

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On the radio with Barbra Streisand!

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on November 3, 2008

Seriously. Barbra Streisand.  I’m on Louie Free’s radio show in Youngstown, Ohio. I am waiting for Babs to finish her schpeal before I report the latest with Video the Vote and plug FREE FOR ALL! while it’s still a hot topic. Read More »

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Don’t Get Screwed—Get Election Protection

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on November 2, 2008

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The Technical Term: Human Error

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on November 2, 2008

A video was featured here on the HuffPo front page this week, produced by my group, Video the Vote. It showed a county clerk in West Virginia demonstrating the reliability of his county’s ES&S machines when they are properly calibrated, versus out of calibration in response to complaints from early voters that they saw their vote flip from Democrat to Republican.

This helpful official gladly took our camera through the process of what voting machine calibration looks like. (Think of a Palm Pilot or an iPhone, you tap the screen in certain places so it gets its bearings.) After showing how alarmingly off the votes will register without proper calibration, the county clerk rebooted the ES&S voting machine, re-calibrated it, and showed the difference in the reliability of the touch screen.

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