Hacking Democracy (2006)

How sad is this?

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Wow, I didn't realize they made a documentary on this, This is how Busch won the all those time. It was in Florida votes where no counted and when recounted only 3% was (randomly). Why only 3% doesn't the 97% also count? This is America! Also same with 9/11 I started with the documentary "Loose Change" it brought up many questions, the more investigated and even more harder questions came about. America has been hijacked and not by terrorists, but by the people who are making money at the time.Why was Thermate ( a very powerful demolition explosive remains) found at all three WTC buildings? Why not a clear video of the Pentagon crash, the most guarded building in the world? Only a few frames of video and none show a plane? COVER UP COVER UP! Look it up for yourself and stop watching the tonight News. Unless you want more soldiers and innocent Iraqians to die......(oh by the way they kill children unarmed to)- they don't show that on the news.

This movie is one of the most important movies of our times, and for generations to come. This movie exposes, and explains, what actually happened during the past two presidential elections. This movie should be required viewing for every civics class in every democratic country, especially the United States.One of the most disarming parts of the movie is the woman who leads the charge in exposing what can only be described as criminal fraud in an election. She does not look at all like a typical protester, actor, filmmaker, muckraker or investigator. But after you see what she does to further the cause of truth and democracy, you will agree that she is a heroine in the truest sense of the word. She is my hero.

Perhaps I'm expecting too much, but you would need a sizable miniseries to adequately tell the tale of voter disenfranchisement that has become the shameful cornerstone of American 'democracy'. Hacking Democracy is a great starting point, but it can only do so much. For better or worse, it focuses on election gadfly Bev Harris and her compatriots at Black Box Voting. Harris' work is important, but it's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the thoroughly compromised machinery of America's electoral systems, which are now dominated by for-profit corporations who keep their 'proprietary' software close to their vests. Absolutely essential viewing, but I'm looking forward to someone making a documentary about the crown prince of sleazy electioneering, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell.

The story of mass voter fraud done by computer nerds. If this is true, it's probably one of the scariest things ever. Not scary like the wolfman scary, but scary because it's real.This shows that it was actually legitimately possible that the entire presidential election was rigged. With simple hacking or computer programing by a company run by a republican and supported by republicans turning the output toward a republican candidate.It completely explains the negative vote totals that Kerry received in some districts in the last election. Instead of stuffing the ballot box, technology allows to start one person possibly negative 10,000 votes with the other guy up 10,000 ... unfortunately Kerry didn't get the number of votes required to bring the negative vote back to zero.This is pretty big. If it is true.