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by Bev Harris

It doesn’t get more mainstream than this: The HBO documentary about computerized voting, Hacking Democracy, been nominated for an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism.

The film shows the detective story that uncovered the inappropriate practice of counting votes in secret, inside electronic voting machines. It chronicles the work of Black Box Voting, catching election workers in the act of destroying audit trails and rigging a 2004 presidential recount. It shows the famous “Thompson hack” and “Hursti Hack”, and gets Diebold’s head engineer on tape claiming it couldn’t be done.

Hacking Democracy was aired on national television 26 times last year, educating millions of Americans about the high risk of electronic voting. It has also been shown in theatres in Great Britain and Europe, where secret electronic voting is creeping into more national election systems.

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