Hacking Democracy (2006)
Is voting controlled by 100 million voters or one guy sitting in his grandmothers basement?
82 min
Documentary film investigating allegations of election fraud during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Electronic voting machines count approximately 90% of America's votes in county, state and federal elections. The technology is also increasingly being used across the world, including in Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and Latin America. The film uncovers incendiary evidence from the trash cans of Texas to the ballot boxes of Ohio, exposing secrecy, votes in the trash, hackable software and election officials rigging the presidential recount.Ultimately proving our 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.
- Release date
- November 2, 2006
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- James Naughton as Narrator
- Bev Harris as Self - Founder - Black Box Voting
- Deanie Lowe as Self - Supervisor of Elections - Volusia Co. Florida
- Harri Hursti as Self - Computer Security Analyst
- Ion Sancho as Self - Supervisor of Elections - Leon County - Florida
- Andy Stephenson as Self - Associate Director - Black Box Voting
Crew
- Mark Radke · Archive footage
- Simon Ardizzone · Director
- Russell Michaels · Director
- Simon Ardizzone · Producer
- Robert Carrillo Cohen · Producer
- Russell Michaels · Producer
- Tuomas Kantelinen · Composer
- Wayne Kramer · Composer
- Sasha Olswang · Editor