This documentary exposes the vulnerability of computers - which count approximately 80% of America's votes in county, state and federal elections - suggesting that if our votes aren't safe, then our democracy isn't safe either.
"Even the election officials who buy the equipment are prohibited... from seeing how it works." And there's the problem. From the election officials, the equipment goes into the hands of mostly volunteers at the polling places. If something goes wrong on-site, nobody available knows how to fix it, but they're forced to try because if the boxes break down, people start bringing federal suits about suffrage rights. Now we've got a bunch of people who have probably never even owned a computer (really, what kind of person is available during the day on a Tuesday in November - senior citizens) trying to fix problems they can't even define and you get things like randomly partitioning the hard drive or erasing the memory or resetting the vote counts (because as soon as the box starts taking votes again, it works and nobody asks any more questions). Never assign malice to what can most easily be attributed to stupidity, because for every truly evil person, there are a million idiots. The one truly evil person who decided back in the seventies to make programming code proprietary is responsible for all the idiocy going on today.
hacking democracy surprise you? question everything. the only way to keep people,not honest, only in line temporarily,or their oponents known to authorities when found.
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