The experience was very good. Turnout was lower than the American Blackout screening of two weeks prior (50 instead of 100), but weather was worse and this was screened on a Univ. campus when midterms were hitting.
The speaker/presenter was excellent. Much of this film was from 2005 and Mr. Kibrick provided updates and non-partisan comments about the current state of affairs regarding electronic voting and tabulation. If you can secure some a presenter, the updates are valuable.
I hope to post the text of Mr. Kibrick's comments by mid February at this site: http://cowell.ucsc.edu/archive/2008/news_film_screening_hd
Questions for the host:
Q: Why did you host this screening? What were your goals?
A: To help bring to light the problems with paperless, unverifiable electronic voting systems and practices. This film is extremely convincing and fairly nonpartisan, so good for audiences across the political spectra.
Q: Any additional materials you could have used?
A: Flyer templates would have saved much time; suggested discussion questions; sample press release and PSA...items like that.
Q: Any ideas on how you can use "Hacking Democracy" in the future?
A: continued screenings -- they're free!
Q: Any advice for future screening hosts?
A: if you'd like samples of the promotional materials we created, please contact me.These include a b&w flyer, a color flyer, and a sheet of 6 handbills. These will be in Adobe InDesign format (without the fonts).
The venue, Stevenson College Event Center (UC Santa Cruz), gets 5 stars
