Saturday Feature - Hacking Democracy

Bev Harris at Black Box Voting teamed up with Simone Ardizzone, Russel Michaels and Robert Carillo Cohen to create what was first called Voteregate. Votergate was a huge web success and it was later picked up by HBO, renamed Hacking Democracy and turned into a full length Documentary . It is very revealing about this whole new age of voting on computers and trusting that they count the vote correctly even though people these days are still afraid to buy stuff on the internet because of how hackable computers are.

Documentary: Votergate

Votergate was a short 40 minute independent production that was distributed on the internet via their original website (which is now gone) and a bunch of help from mirror sites. They went on to shoot more footage and put together what later became the HBO documentary Hacking Democracy which can also be found HERE. This has been a very important independent, grass roots, media effort to cover things the mainstream basically blacked out completely when it really mattered. This couldn't have happened without major internet support and it shows the kind of work we can and should continue to do.