Electoral Dysfunction

Name: Electoral Dysfunction
Genre: History, Comedy, Documentary, News
Released: September 21, 2012
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 42

2012

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Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) | Release Date: September 21, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: There's something funny about voting in America. For starters, where is the Electoral College—and does it have a winning football team? Why does America have 13,000 voting districts, each with its own set of rules? And why are residents of our nation’s capital denied full voting rights? Electoral Dysfunction, a feature-length documentaryThere's something funny about voting in America. For starters, where is the Electoral College—and does it have a winning football team? Why does America have 13,000 voting districts, each with its own set of rules? And why are residents of our nation’s capital denied full voting rights? Electoral Dysfunction, a feature-length documentary created by a team of award-winning filmmakers, uses humor and wit to take an irreverent–but nonpartisan–look at voting in America. (Trio Pictures)… Expand

Director: Bennett Singer and David Deschamps and Leslie D. Farrell

Genre(s): History, Comedy, Documentary, News

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Gary Goldstein

Sep 27, 2012

Both well-timed and oddly late-on-arrival, the good-natured documentary Electoral Dysfunction attempts to lay bare the irregularities behind the American voting system but, for some, it may feel too lightweight and coy for genuine effect. Read full review

David DeWitt

Sep 25, 2012

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. Read full review

John DeFore

Sep 25, 2012

A timely look at an important issue that's getting more hotly contested every month, Electoral Dysfunction takes a mildly jocular tone to get viewers concerned about what it calls a "war on voting" in America. Read full review

Nick Schager

Sep 25, 2012

The result being a film that, devoid of both laugh-out-loud humor and the righteous indignation that characterizes most agitprop efforts, winds up being just a voting-for-dummies primer. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Sep 25, 2012

Satirist and "Daily Show" ex-contributor Mo Rocca's faux-disingenuous tone and nonstop jocularity dominate the documentary to quickly grating effect, significantly diminishing its impact. Read full review

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