
No Umbrella: Election Day in the City
Cleveland, Ohio. Election Day 2004. An irascible octogenarian inner city councilwoman takes on polling place chaos, an unresponsive bureaucracy and an increasingly agitated electorate.
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"This short film is testimony to countless Americans who felt that the 2004 Presidential Election was deliberately manipulated by various officials to suppress the anticipated turn out of the "wrong kind of voters". Purely by accident the director, expecting to document the voting process of an Urban Precinct in Cleveland, became an instrument of exposing a national problem. In a democracy, people depend on fairness. When a basic right such as participating in the political process is tampered with, citizens tend to lose faith in their "system". Americans have been lied to,..."
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Cleveland, Ohio. Election Day 2004. An irascible octogenarian inner city councilwoman takes on polling place chaos, an unresponsive bureaucracy and an increasingly agitated electorate.