HACKING DEMOCRACY
Hacking Democracy
2007 Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form
HBO Documentary Films
Directed by Simon Ardizzone and Russell Michaels
Executive Produced by Sarah Teale & Sian Edwards
Hacking Democracy has been broadcast many times on HBO, exposing the dangers of the voting machines used in America's mid-term and presidential elections. Electronic voting machines count almost 100% of America's votes in county, state and federal elections. The Diebold voting machines and their hackable software are still used today in twenty eight states. The security holes and complete lack of transparency still pose an extraordinary risk to US elections.
Filmed over three years this daring exposé follows tenacious investigator, Bev Harris, and her team of citizen activists and hackers as they take on the electronic voting industry, targeting the Diebold corporation.
Hacking Democracy 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.
Hacking Democracy takes a clear eyed, non partisan look at the secrecy, cronyism and privatization of elections in America as it captures a citizen's movement intent on taking back elections, and democracy itself.
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.
