Are you convinced that there were no voting irregularities in 2004? Then witness Fannie Lewis in action on November 2, 2004, as she struggles to manage a polling station in a predominantly African American precinct in Cleveland, Ohio. Facing record numbers at the polls, Ms. Lewis spends her day on a cell phone begging for the machines and the technical support Ward 7 needs to handle the throngs of frustrated voters. On the one hand, No Umbrella is a sobering reminder of the United States’s inadequate election process. But the film also has wit. It sharpens its satiric edge by emphasizing Fannie Lewis’s steadfast sassiness in the face of the day’s frustratingly repetitive rituals, transforming the proceedings into a dark comedy that at times approaches the absurdity of Samuel Beckett’s most twisted plays.  TW