Monday, May 12, 2014

Electoral Dysfunction (2012)

Directors: David Deschamps & Leslie D. Farrell 
Run Time: 87 min.
Call Number: JK1976 .E54 2012

"For a film that takes on a serious concern of United States democracy—voting and the effective, if not always overt, encouragement and discouragement of that act as practiced across the nation—'Electoral Dysfunction' pulls off an admirable trick: It’s pleasant. It treats Democrats and Republicans respectfully, and its humor, with the comic Mo Rocca as guide, is closer to Garrison Keillor than to Michael Moore. . . . This lighthearted, colorful, nonpartisan documentary spends most of its time in the Indiana of 2008, following get-out-the-vote efforts there by both major parties. These scenes are the film’s most appealing, with person-to-person, neighbor-to-neighbor examples of principled grass-roots campaigning." 
—David DeWitt, New York Times