Hacking Democracy gets Emmy nomination
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"Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 12:39 pm:
It doesn't get more mainstream than this: Hacking Democracy, produced by Russell Michaels, Simon Ardizzone and Sarah Teale of Teale Edwards Productions, has 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. "
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/54236.html
"The subject matter in Hacking Democracy was so controversial that all three filmmakers were subjected to brutal maneuverings to kill the film, both from Diebold and from political interests."
The Documentary:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-365586126885215066&q=hacking+democracy&total=45&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
From:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
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It doesn't get more mainstream than this: Hacking Democracy, produced by Russell Michaels, Simon Ardizzone and Sarah Teale of Teale Edwards Productions, has 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. "
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/54236.html
"The subject matter in Hacking Democracy was so controversial that all three filmmakers were subjected to brutal maneuverings to kill the film, both from Diebold and from political interests."
The Documentary:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-365586126885215066&q=hacking+democracy&total=45&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
From:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
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Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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as per Bev Harris:
HR 811 is a bill which holds paper ballots hostage by saying, if we want to have paper ballots at all, we have to put control of elections under four White House appointees and authorize federally sanctioned secret vote counting. Nice choice, huh? Dennis Kucinich has withdrawn his support from the bill, which was originally supposed to give us paper trails, but then became a Christmas Tree Bill, with special interest groups hanging ornaments on it until what was a five-page bill became a 62-page bill full of unwieldy but well meaning provisions, along with dangerous provisions that will lock us into a fascist form of government.
Excellent informed discussion (comments) on the facts of it here:
http://avi-rubin.blogspot.com/2007/02/hr-811-new-holt-bill.html
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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dennis has done more than any other candidate....in fact...he has done what NO OTHER candidate has done, at least to my knowledge
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
I liked this comment in particular...
Mark E smith said:
"If not for election fraud, voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandered districts, expensive media disinformation campaigns, and the stranglehold that the corrupt two-party system has on U.S. politics, which forces people to ignore their conscience and vote for the lesser of two evils, how many people in Washington do you think could actually win an election?
As Michael Collins puts it, "We pretend to vote, and they pretend to get elected."
87% of the U.S. public wants impeachment. Bush does not represent us and we have no representation in Congress.
If the machines are still in place in 2008, we will either refuse to vote, or we will have another four years of torture, war crimes, defense corporations looting the national treasury and the Pentagon "losing" trillions of dollars it cannot account for, while our jobs continue to be outsourced, we cannot afford health care, and there are no safety nets.
If we can't stop Congress from spending another billion dollars on machines we don't want, we can simply refuse to vote. The U.S. ranks 139th globally in voter turn-out. We got an unelected President in 2000 and he then set out to "spread democracy," as the world shuddered in disbelief. We do not have a democracy. We no longer even have a pretense of a democracy. We have a tyranny under the thumb of the world's number one terrorist, and Congress refuses to impeach him.
Josef Stalin had elections, but he counted the votes and he always won. This time we're counting the votes, or else there won't be any votes. The 13% of the country who still feel that the government represents them are welcome to vote in rigged elections, but they cannot claim a mandate or even claim to be legitimately elected.
Every moment that we waste with compromises and appeasement like the Holt bill, more innocent people are tortured and killed in our name, more trillions are looted from our treasury, the country sinks further into debt, and we have nothing to show for it.
Enough is enough."
Doesn't get any more accurate than that.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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or any more blatant than this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEgBCkiV4DM
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
oh that's nice.
even better is the shit-for-brains that says
"Don't take this video seriously. Peter King was making a joke. Now, get Ken Blackwell to say that, and you'd have something, but this video is nonsense. "
Yeah.
Fucking "Ha ha ha. All the way to the presidency"
Jesus H. Christ has left the building.
If I opened it now would you not understand?