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Video the Vote

The midterm elections are eight days away now, and if “Video the Vote.org” has its way — you might be caught on tape while heading to cast your vote.

Video the Vote is recruiting citizen volunteers to videotape the polls on November 7th to document and make a record of Election Day.

The citizen video campaign is the inspiration of Guerilla News Network co-founder Ian Inaba. He is also the Director of the Sundance award-winning documentary “American Blackout” about alleged African-American voter disenfranchisement in 2000 and 2004.

He joins us from Oakland, California.

Guests:

Ian Inaba, head of Video the Vote and Director of the documentary film American Blackout

 
 

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