Hacking Democracy (2006)

Memorable, crazy movie

Good concept, poorly executed.

good back-story, and good acting

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Lets take a look over the U.S. power structure over the last few decades. The Kennedy's, their money inherited through illegal liquor smuggling during the prohibition, along with all the bribes and violence those type of activities invite. Kennedy , who involved the US in the Vietnam conflict after first sending CIA and army personnel on an 'advisory status' (you can read the letters on the official freedom of information act which brought this correspondence to light.) Nixon impeached for wiping tapes and orchestrating a fictitious break-in to hide the truth. He was really the last leader brought to task for criminal activity and was pardoned by Ford before spending a single night in jail. Reagan, who used his actor's fame and presence, to wriggle his way out of the fact he was providing arms to South American murder squads and terrorists known to be murdering men women and children. A flagrant and illegal abuse of power he was never even tried for. Then the first Bush, selling arms - including poisonous gas to Iraq in it's war against both Iran and mass extermination of their own people. Then Clinton, who so blatantly twisted lies about his notorious affair, it was embarrassing enough to listen, let alone watch on TV. And then there's the second Bush. The one who grounded all flights in the USA except those whisking the Bin Laden family back to Saudi Arabia immediately after 9/11. To look at this realistically, 'Hacking Democracy' was a phenomenally brave and convincing documentary showing how America was cheated out of its democratic process and informing us of how Bush turned America into a country soon to be more fascist than democratic. Let's face it. America is run by business. Oil power and profit are now our democratic purpose. Let me state this reality. I have mentioned nothing here that you cannot verify for yourself with a little research. If you accept that Bush should have and never would have been elected in a fair process, then his interference with personal freedoms, riches attained through contracts given to Cheyney and all of his other cohorts, and last BUT definitely not least, an illegal invasion of Iraq are all crimes - the last a crime whether legally elected or not. Why is nobody calling him out on these issues? Why aren't the same people who went after Clinton for a lesser offense, chasing him down with the tenacity deserved? People scream anti-American! at you if you so much as mention a difficult question, and then claim we're somehow assaulting and insulting our troops abroad. It is way past the time those in command explain themselves honestly,without rhetoric, and that we refuse to be fobbed off yet again. If any other administration in any other country had pulled the same stunts we have, the US would be on them like a ton of bricks. Hacking Democracy should be a must see in every classroom in America. If proved we have a president who should be immediately impeached, we'd end up having to pay reparations to Iraq and Bush could be brought before a war tribunal and charged with crimes against humanity for the hundreds of thousands of deaths he's caused to say nothing of those maimed for life in this abhorrent mess he's caused in Iraq.

I am a senior in high school and we watched Hacking Democracy in my government class. It's funny that we have a government class because even though the class is required by state law, the state gives no curriculum or work in our Government class. While i watched this movie i was blown away. What kind of people could over look such a huge glitch in, not only the voting machines, but in the U.S. Government system itself. I am very glad i watched this and everyone should see it. We are writing a reaction paper as an assignment that my teacher made up. Well, it's the most she could think of since she doesn't have any material to teach us. If you want your vote to count...i recommend the viewing of Hacking Democracy.

Perhaps I'm expecting too much, but you would need a sizable miniseries to adequately tell the tale of voter disenfranchisement that has become the shameful cornerstone of American 'democracy'. Hacking Democracy is a great starting point, but it can only do so much. For better or worse, it focuses on election gadfly Bev Harris and her compatriots at Black Box Voting. Harris' work is important, but it's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the thoroughly compromised machinery of America's electoral systems, which are now dominated by for-profit corporations who keep their 'proprietary' software close to their vests. Absolutely essential viewing, but I'm looking forward to someone making a documentary about the crown prince of sleazy electioneering, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell.

The story of mass voter fraud done by computer nerds. If this is true, it's probably one of the scariest things ever. Not scary like the wolfman scary, but scary because it's real.This shows that it was actually legitimately possible that the entire presidential election was rigged. With simple hacking or computer programing by a company run by a republican and supported by republicans turning the output toward a republican candidate.It completely explains the negative vote totals that Kerry received in some districts in the last election. Instead of stuffing the ballot box, technology allows to start one person possibly negative 10,000 votes with the other guy up 10,000 ... unfortunately Kerry didn't get the number of votes required to bring the negative vote back to zero.This is pretty big. If it is true.