June 4 reprise of May 21, 2008, show (see below): Ellen Theisen and Susan Pynchon.

May 28, 2008: Bev Harris of Black Box Voting discusses election protection, the primaries...announces release of the 2008 Tool Kit. Audio. Podcast. Marta's Blog: "Harris'ing them into quality control."

May 21, 2008: Ellen Theisen of VotersUnite.org and Susan Pynchon of the Florida Fair Elections Coalition discuss "The Paradox of Fair Elections: Private Votes, Public Counting." Audio. Podcast. Marta's Blog: "Ready, Set, Vote and Other Strategies"

May 14: Part 1--David Earnhardt, writer/producer/director of Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections. Part 2--Alexander Keyssar, professor of history and social policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, author of The Right to Vote; Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media studies at NYU, author of Fooled Again and editor of Loser Take All. Audio Part 1. Part 2. Podcast. Marta's Blog: "The State of the Vote"

May 7, 7-9 PM ET: Brad Friedman of the BradBlog.com. John Gideon of VotersUnite.org. John Bonifaz of VoterAction.org. Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again and editor of Loser Take All. Ion Sancho, Supervisor of Elections for Florida's Leon County. Ellen Theisen of VotersUnite.org. Susan Pynchon of the Florida Fair Elections Coalition. Audio Part 1. Part 2. Podcast.

April 30: Voting by mail and internet voting are addressed by Charles E. Corry, Ph.D., Equal Justice Foundation; Gentry Lange, No Vote by Mail Project; Barbara Simons, National Workshop on Internet Voting and Defense Dept.’s Internet voting project (SERVE). Audio. Podcast. Marta's Blog: "Remote voting—who's counting?"

April 23, 2008, 7:30-9 PM ET: Reports from around the state on Pennsylvania's primary, including: Alan Brau, Northampton County; Richard King, western PA; Suzanne Erb for the disability community; Paddy Shaffer from the Ohio Election Justice Campaign and Mary Vollero, exit-polling in Centre County; Lori Rosolowsky re the Creekside controversy in Bensalem; Michael Collins of "Scoop" Independent News; Marybeth Kuznik, VotePA.us; Holly Jacobson, Voter Action; student activist Sara Haile-Mariam; co-hosts Jim Strait and Mary Ann Gould. Audio. Podcast.

April 16: Part 1, GEORGIA—Garland Favorito of VoterGA.org re their lawsuit challenging the legality and constitutionality of electronic voting. Part 2, FLORIDA—Ellen Brodsky of Broward Election Reform Coalition re the "Mystery of Broward County," the 110% turnout, plus the state's switch to opscan. Part 3, PENNSYLVANIA—NYU student activist Sara Haile-Mariam re "youth on the ground" in advance of PA's high-stakes April 22 primary. Audio Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Podcast. Marta's Blog: "Hopping Around with Hope"

April 9 reprise of April 2: Whistleblower, computer programmer and FL Congressional candidate Clint Curtis addresses vote flipping, the power of the voting machine programmer, and the question of whether PA's Danaher machines are "dumb terminals." Audio. Podcast. Marta's Blog: "Helpless, helpless, helpless"

March 26, 7:30-9 PM: The Youth Vote--Can It Be Rocked? NYU student activist Sara Haile-Mariam and Ryan Cost of ThePalestra.com join Mary Ann Gould and Jim Strait in a roundtable discussion of the youth vote among Republican, Democratic, and nonvoting students. Audio Part 1. Part 2. Podcast. Strait Talks: "NYU students speak out."

March 19, 2008: Mimi Kennedy, actress, author, activist and Chair of the Advisory Board of  Progressive Democrats of America, speaks from experience about the critical role of citizen poll workers. Guest hosts Lori Rosolowsky and Jim Strait will also discuss how to become a poll worker in Pennsylvania.

March 12: Guest host Jim Strait interviews John Gideon of VotersUnite re the week's voting news from New Jersey, PA, Iowa and Ohio, followed by a reprise of Mary Ann Gould's Jan. 17, 2007, interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood. Audio.

Feb. 27, 2008, reprise of Oct. 31, 2007: Rosabeth M. Kanter, professor at Harvard Business School, best-selling author, and one of the "50 most powerful women in the world" (Times of London). Latest book: America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again. Audio. Podcast. Transcript. Strait Talks: “déjà vu all over again…” 

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