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Hacking Democracy

  • Director: Simon Ardizzone, Russell Michaels
  • Running Time: 80 minutes
  • Country: United Kingdom, United States
  • Year: 2006
  • Theme: Current Affairs

Text: About This Film

Are American elections fair? In 2003, Bev Harris, a grandmother from Seattle, became suspicious. After doing some internet research, she found files with secret software, source codes and passwords on the website of Diebold, one of Americas biggest voting computer manufacturers. As her investigation deepened with shocking results, she set out to investigate how private corporations count Americas vote. We follow her trail through courtrooms and rubbish bins across America as she searches for the truth and attempts to bring down the companies in control of the electoral future of America.