Richard Tafoya
Nov 2nd, 2006, 03:32 PM
Boston Herald:
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/tvNews/view.bg?articleid=165262
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.
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Curious about her county’s new touch-screen voting machines, Bev Harris started asking questions. What she uncovers is enough to prompt her to start her own grassroots organization (www.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.
At public hearings captured on video, Harris goes head-to-head with Diebold officials. Diebold denies impropriety of any kind, but its impartiality is suspect after the company CEO, a major Republican contributor, promises to deliver swing state Ohio to Bush in 2004.
Sen. John Kerry comes under fire for allegedly acknowledging voting fraud in New Mexico during his ill-fated run for president - and for refusing to act on the information.
“Hacking Democracy” can’t pin anyone down. There’s still the matter of the voting machine in hot-button disputed Volusia County, Fla., that managed to record a negative 16,022 votes for Al Gore in 2000.
Harris’ trip to that county in 2004 turns up some of the most riveting footage. Election officials preen that there won’t be any discrepancies this time around. Later, Harris catches employees tossing out voting records in the trash.
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/tvNews/view.bg?articleid=165262
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.
...
Curious about her county’s new touch-screen voting machines, Bev Harris started asking questions. What she uncovers is enough to prompt her to start her own grassroots organization (www.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.
At public hearings captured on video, Harris goes head-to-head with Diebold officials. Diebold denies impropriety of any kind, but its impartiality is suspect after the company CEO, a major Republican contributor, promises to deliver swing state Ohio to Bush in 2004.
Sen. John Kerry comes under fire for allegedly acknowledging voting fraud in New Mexico during his ill-fated run for president - and for refusing to act on the information.
“Hacking Democracy” can’t pin anyone down. There’s still the matter of the voting machine in hot-button disputed Volusia County, Fla., that managed to record a negative 16,022 votes for Al Gore in 2000.
Harris’ trip to that county in 2004 turns up some of the most riveting footage. Election officials preen that there won’t be any discrepancies this time around. Later, Harris catches employees tossing out voting records in the trash.