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Live From Main Street Ohio: Will Your Vote Count?
October 15, 2008
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On this edition, we go to Ohio, the scene of election day chaos in 2004. Long lines, a shortage of voting machines, voter challenges, and unprocessed registrations led some members of Congress to challenge the validity of the presidential election.
This time around, Ohio is again a crucial swing state, and it remains to be seen whether changes in voting laws there and in other states will make the process better or worse for citizens who want to cast their votes.
Live From Main Street is a tour of the U.S. in election year 2008, hosted by Grit TV's Laura Flanders, produced by The Media Consortium and adapted for radio by the National Radio Project/Making Contact.
Featuring:
Steven Rosenfeld, senior fellow at AlterNet and the author of Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting; Bo Lipari, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting; Wendy Weiser, director of the Brennan Center's work on voting rights and elections; Docia Buffington, lead organizer for the Youth Voter Collective; Frances Fox Piven, author and professor; Dr. Divine Pryor, Executive Director of the Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions; Bob Fitrakis, author of How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election & Is Rigging 2008; Donita Judge, lead Ohio attorney for the Advancement Project's Power and Democracy team.
Live From Main Street Crew
Host: Laura Flanders, Grit TV
Produced by: The Media Consortium
Technical Assistant: David Rowley
Making Contact Crew
Executive Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Host: Andrew Stelzer
Associate Producer: Puck Lo
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Associate Director: Khanh Pham
Production Coordinator: Elena Botkin-Levy
Intern: Kiesha Thomas
For more information:
The Brennan Center for Justice
NYU School of Law
161 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10013
212 998.6730
brennancenter@nyu.edu
www.brennancenter.org
Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions
1637 Bedford Avenue, Room 220/32
Brooklyn, NY 11225
718-270-5136
NuLPG@mec.cuny.edu
New Yorkers for Verified Voting
PO Box 163
Mecklenburg, NY 14863
contact@nyvv.org
www.nyvv.org
The League of Young Voters
45 Main Street, Suite 628
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-305-4245
www.theleague.com
The Youth Voter Collective
773-446-9920 ext. 203
yvc@youthvotercollective.org
www.youthvotercollective.org
The Hightower Lowdown
www.hightowerlowdown.org
Grit TV
laura@lauraflanders.com
www.lauraflanders.com
Live From Main Street
323-424-3010
Tracy Fleischman
tfleisch@themediaconsortium.com
www.LiveFromMainStreet.com
STEALING AMERICA
Vote by Vote
by OSCAR-nominated
filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman
Narrated by Peter Coyote
www.stealingamericathemovie.org