Is American democracy safe in the age of computers? This cautionary film looks at the very real risk of hackers altering vote counts in public elections--and exposes the vulnerability of the computers that count approximately 80% of America's votes in county, state and federal elections. Filmed in 2004-2005, this documentary tells the story of Bev Harris, a Seattle publicist/writer whose watchdog group uncovered evidence of mishandled voting records and suspicious voting machine malfunctions. Harris's crusade took the group--consisting of computer experts, activists and political candidates from both parties--from her home computer (where she found a computer system blueprint accidentally made public) to Tallahassee, FL, for a "mini-election" that proved just how easy it is to hack the vote. (TVPG) (AC)
After Watching this documentary on the election process and how votes are counted for our presidential races, I must say that I am very interested while disturbed at the same time as to vendor participation in the vote counting software and memory cards in their machines. Seeing the relationship between vendors of vote counting machines and their affiliations with political officials really makes you wonder what assurance there really is in the quality control of our votes and power as a people within a democracy. Very interesting stuff....I recommend that you take out a little time and view this documentary for your own food for thought.
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