Electoral Dysfunction

What is the plot of Electoral Dysfunction?
It’s fall of 2008, Mo (the Director) goes on a road trip to look closely at American election or voting system. He ends up visiting Indiana, which is said to have some of the strictest laws in country. How? It was one of the first states to pass a strict photo ID law and has never convicted anyone for it. Texas is a follower in which we also need to have an ID to cast a vote; We all students were informed about this in class that if with either one of seven types of identities exceptions, voting is possible. The reason for him to set a road trip in the beginning is that he discovers the right to vote is really missing from the U.S. Constitution. While in Indiana, he meets each member of the Democratic Party and Republican Party who is in effort to get votes out from everyone. He took a road trip across America and along the way he met all kinds of people of our nation's elections - voters, election workers, elected officials, even electors. There was a section on how confusing the ballots can be. He discussed ballot design with designer Todd Oldham with several examples from around the country. It demonstrated how the design as well as the language is awkward enough that some people may not vote for the candidate they planned. One of the highlight of the documentary is when Mo follows Marshall to the house of a 50 year old woman who believed that since she was an ex-con, she was not allowed to vote for all her life. With the cameras following her as she votes for the first time in her life, I think Dysfunction is worth viewing for this moment alone. The process of voting and elections is a complete mess, complicated and confusing, but isn’t that what all Americans have for now? Anyway, as Mo progresses on his journey, he searches for the Electoral College, system in which the Unites States voting works. He further investigates the voter ID and voter fraud. After, he discusses voter fraud and American's perceptions of the...