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jasmine weaver

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“Behind Closed Doors”



When the constitution was written, only white male property owners had the vote. Over the past two centuries the term “government by the people” has become a reality. During the early 1800s states gradually dropped requirements for voting. Later, groups that had been excluded previously gained the right to vote. Voting is very important and such a privilege and I think everyone should vote no matter what’s the issue. One of the most memorable elections was in 2000 and 2004 when George W. Bush was elected president, in both elections there was a lot of corruption. Even after all the corruption in these elections, Bush was elected president. The film”American Blackout” directed by Ian Inaba, well structured and fast paced, uses footage interviews with voters, congressional leaders, coherent images of Ohio voters standing in line only to be told it was too late to vote, and valid information from congress women Cynthia Mckinney, to demonstrate the biases in those two elections; Overall those specific reason is what makes this film so great.

During the 2000 election numerous voters in Florida were denied the right to vote. Majority of the voters denied were minorities; African Americans and Hispanics. There was this list called the voter list with voter’s names and their race. If your name appeared on this list you were not able to vote. During that year in the state of Florida for some odd reason majority of the list contained African Americans and Hispanics? In the film they showed clips of voters who were denied the right to vote either because they weren’t registered or they were a felon. These interviews included people saying they were clueless of the reason why they could not vote. They were clueless because they were registered and were not a convicted felon. If a felon...