The controversial HBO documentary 'Hacking Democracy' DVD was released on March 27th, including extra footage never seen before.
Electronic voting machines count about 90% of the votes cast in America today. Seattle grandmother Bev Harris did a simple Google search and stumbled across the trade secret software of the Diebold Corporation, which counts around 40% of America's votes. This treasure trove of information about the inner-workings of the company's voting system made its way to computer security expert Dr. Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University, who found "stunning stunning flaws".
Filmed over three years this exposé follows the investigations of a team of citizen activists from Black Box Voting as they take on the electronic voting industry, targeting the Diebold corporation.
The film reveals incendiary evidence from the dumpsters of Texas to the ballot boxes of Ohio, exposing secrecy, votes in the trash, hackable software and election officials rigging the presidential recount. And finally in Florida one brave election official gave Black Box Voting and the film makers access to his county's Diebold voting system, with dramatic consequences.
Ultimately proving the votes can be stolen without a trace "Hacking Democracy" culminates in the famous 'Hursti Hack', a duel between the Diebold voting machines and a computer hacker from Finland - with America's democracy at stake.
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HBO's "Hacking Democracy" now released on DVD
See the film makers new website for details – http://www.hackingdemocracy.com
The controversial HBO documentary 'Hacking Democracy' DVD was released on March 27th, including extra footage never seen before.
Electronic voting machines count about 90% of the votes cast in America
today. Seattle grandmother Bev Harris did a simple Google search and stumbled across the trade secret software of the Diebold Corporation, which counts around 40% of America's votes. This treasure trove of information about the inner-workings of the company's voting system made its way to computer security expert Dr. Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University, who found "stunning stunning flaws".
Filmed over three years this exposé follows the investigations of a team of citizen activists from Black Box Voting as they take on the electronic voting industry, targeting the Diebold corporation.
The film reveals incendiary evidence from the dumpsters of Texas to the ballot boxes of Ohio, exposing secrecy, votes in the trash, hackable software and election officials rigging the presidential recount. And finally in Florida one brave election official gave Black Box Voting and the film makers access to his county's Diebold voting system, with dramatic consequences.
Ultimately proving the votes can be stolen without a trace "Hacking Democracy" culminates in the famous 'Hursti Hack', a duel between the Diebold voting machines and a computer hacker from Finland - with America's democracy at stake.