Hacking Democracy

Hacking Democracy
The controversial electronic voting documentary
Directed by	Simon Ardizzone Russell Michaels
Produced by	Robert Carrillo Cohen Simon Ardizzone Russell Michaels
Starring	Bev Harris Kathleen Wynne Andy Stephenson Harri Hursti Herbert Hugh Thompson Ion Sancho
Release date	November 2, 2006 (2006-11-02)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Hacking Democracy is a 2006 Emmy nominated documentary film broadcast on HBO and created by producer / directors Russell Michaels and Simon Ardizzone, with producer Robert Carrillo Cohen, and executive producers Sarah Teale, Sian Edwards & Earl Katz. Filmed over three years it documents American citizens investigating anomalies and irregularities with 'e-voting' (electronic voting) systems that occurred during the 2000 and 2004 elections in the United States, especially in Volusia County, Florida. The film investigates the flawed integrity of electronic voting machines, particularly those made by Diebold Election Systems, exposing previously unknown backdoors in the Diebold trade secret computer software. The film culminates dramatically in the on-camera hacking of the in-use / working Diebold election system in Leon County, Florida - the same computer voting system which has been used in actual American elections across thirty-three states, and which still counts tens of millions of America's votes today.

In 2007 Hacking Democracy was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form.^[1]