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Electoral storm: HBO’s ‘Hacking Democracy’ takes a hard look at voting security
By Mark A. Perigard
Thursday, November 2, 2006
“Hacking Democracy.” Tonight at 9 on HBO. Grade: A
How safe is your vote?
With the nation ready to head to the polls on Tuesday - and Massachusetts voters about to decide a gubernatorial race noteworthy for its mudslinging - the HBO documentary “Hacking Democracy” raises enough questions about the security of the ballot box to perturb partisans of any stripe.
The thought of watching a documentary on possible voting fraud may sound as appealing as, say, a PBS special on mushroom farming (say, is it pledge week yet?), but “Hacking Democracy” (tonight at 9) unravels like a “24” episode - with enough twists to satiate conspiracy buffs.
Instead of Jack Bauer, we have a worthy stand-in in Caroline Rhea look-alike and Seattle grandmother Bev Harris.
Curious about her county’s new touch-screen voting machines, she started asking questions. What she uncovers is enough to prompt her to start her own grassroots organization (blackboxvoting.org) and to pursue questions of potential voter fraud across the nation.
Harris ultimately learns that Diebold Corp., one of the leading vendors of voting machines, sells equipment that apparently can be so easily hacked, one can leave no trace of ever having tampered with voting totals.
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/tvNews/view.bg?articleid=165262
This is real.
Elections are stolen.
There is no way to have recounts.
They have been trying to kill the "exit polling" for some time, now.
Exit polls have always been a reliable gage. For predicting outcomes.
Until 2000 and 2004, I wonder why?