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Hacking Democracy

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Bev Harris, a grandmother turned election-fraud investigator, starts pulling apart the electronic voting system that most of America switched to after the 2000 Florida recount fiasco. Her research team finds Diebold's proprietary vote-counting software sitting unprotected on an open internet server, source code included, and starts testing whether the machines can be manipulated without leaving a trace. The film follows her citizen-activist network into county election offices, courtrooms, and a Florida warehouse where discarded ballots turn up in a dumpster. The centerpiece is a staged demonstration in which a hacker alters vote totals on a Diebold optical-scan machine while election officials watch, changing the outcome of a mock election without triggering any audit flag. Diebold executives and company statements are set against Harris's findings throughout, and the film lets the contradiction between the two stand unresolved. What emerges is less a single scandal than a picture of a voting infrastructure built and certified with almost no independent security testing, run by a handful of private companies answerable to no one in particular.