Hacking Democracy

(94)IMDb 7.81 h 21 min2006

The film the voting machine corporations don't want you to see. HACKING DEMOCRACY follows investigator/grandmother, Bev Harris, and her citizen-activists as they set out to uncover how America counts its votes. Proving the votes can be stolen without a trace culminates in a duel between the Diebold corporation's voting machines and a computer hacker - with America's democracy at stake.

Directors: Russell Michaels Simon Ardizzone

Starring: Bev Harris Kathleen Wynne Harri Hursti

Genres: Special Interest Documentary

Subtitles: English [CC]

Audio languages: English

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Supporting actors: James Naughton

Producers: Simon Ardizzone Robert Carrillo Cohen Russell Michaels

Studio: Teale Edwards Productions, LLC

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Paul de Jong

All Citizens Must Watch

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2020

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It was painfully clear during the 2016 primary that there were issues with the election and I feel like it is happening again in 2020. It should not be this way. All voting software needs to be open source so that every one can see. This needs to be the case at every level including the systems that count the paper ballots. That is the only way to make it secure. Why should we trust a proprietary company system?

This video gives a great argument as to why we can not trust the voting machines, but that is just one of the issues with our election system. Closing polling places, selectively kicking people off of the voter rolls using things like voter draft verification cards and voter crosscheck, selectively closing polling places so there are 2-7 hour lines as well as other onerous obstacles to voting that are selectively targeted at Progressive voters! It is hard to believe how bad our election system is and until we deal with that our choices will be Joe Biden vs Donald Trump. If you ever want to take back our country we need to deal with things like this... and paper ballots alone are clearly not enough as this video makes painfully clear.

Every citizen should watch this video.

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Lorelle

This needs to be seen by every voter.

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2020

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I saw this years ago, shortly after it was released. Easily changing vote totals (in less than 5 minutes), destruction of official records that by law should be kept for review, deliberately ignoring the best practices that should be followed to ensure accurate vote tallies are still subverting the will of the voters. I bought this copy to share with my friends because the problems shown still have not been corrected and won't be until voters demand it!

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NelleT

A MUST WATCH!

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2017

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This is why we need to go back to paper ballots counted by hand. The Russians hacked our elections and the current method of voting puts us in danger of the private corporations that DO NOT allow even the government to review the programming of these machines. Technology has bitten us in many cases, we should NOT risk that which is at the heart of our democracy by allowing these private corporations to have total control over our votes. We should vote by methods that allow our votes to be counted as cast which also has the ability to do recounts, not the case with many of the voting machines used today. Contact your Sec of State office to fight to change how we vote. Do it now! The Russian certainly do have the ability to hack these machines, in spite of what government officials say, including your sec of state. Get petitions to get this issue on ballots statewide to change and protect our right to vote.

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William Soderlund

Why don't the major news channels come clean and speak ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2016

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Why don't the major news channels come clean and speak of this type of goings on instead of trying to sweep it under the rug? Both the political parties have long stated that our electoral system is flawed. It reminds me of the old story of the emperor wearing no clothes. Why pretend that it is not happening when it is common knowledge that our voting system can be hacked or misused by those dark elements in our society?

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Carol L. Reed

Watch & Recommend to Every Voter You Know!

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2017

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Every American should watch this! Shocking and leaves the viewer with a queasy feeling in the pit of your stomach! We need to pay more attention to our voting systems and make them more accurate and accountable to the voters. Hand counts in public the night of elections would be the "gold standard."

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Jan E. Johnson

The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice,nobody seems to care......

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2016

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Interesting film.I have been very interested in the work of Bev Harris for a very long time. It always felt like the game was rigged and now I can say I know why.
Great film ,depressing and sad sure but great as well because it's so eye opening.
Think one person one vote is accurate? Check this film out then go look at the website Black Box Voting. It will open your eyes wide.

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Kit Swanson

A good movie for everyone who loves democracy

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2007

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I am an extreme left-leaning Democract. Frankly, I'm more Socialist than anything else, at least on many issues. Like many in the party, I was entirely inked that the Bush Bunch managed to steal the Florida elections. I kept referring to him as "The Pretender-in-Chief" for most of his first term.

When the 2004 elections happened, they were messy and foul, but I assumed that at least, sucky though the results were from my point of view, Bush had won legitimately.

Then I saw this film.

Wow.

You know, if even a small amount of what's presented in this movie is true, we have a major problem on our hands. I suspect a lot more than a small amount is true, which makes it even worse.

Ultimately in our democracy we have to trust our elections, even if we can't trust anything else. Given how easy it appeared to be for the Finnish hacker to get into the system, and the comments from the Diebold executive about making sure Ohio would go for Bush, and a number of other things in the movie, I've come to the conclusion that we cannot trust our elections.

One of my friends is a Republican. A gay, neo-conservative, ditto-head, knee-jerk Republican. Imagine Anne Coulter as a not-very-attractive man, and you're on the right track. I've tried to get him to watch this movie and he simply carps about how the Democrats only care about election fraud now that it's the Republicans doing it.

I think he misses the point rather a bit.

The movie is a little overpriced, but well worth the purchase by people of any party. Like I said, we need to trust our elections, or what do we have?

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