Hacking Democracy - Hack Votes - HBO Documentary

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1. This country does not need to have some for profit company handing out there machines

to be used in an election.

We need in place a national weekend holiday for voting and the use of paper and pen. Elections at the presidential level do not have to be certified until December 20, and this idea that the "networks" have to call a race is absurd.

And has for state legislatures and some sec. of states doing what they have been doing on rigging and suppression of voting, and have this gerrymandering, that has been perfected , if one were to read the book Rat F*cked is pretty amazing.

Again, paper and pen and mail in the ballot, like they do in Oregon, it's not perfect, but at least it's a start to bring it back to what it use to be, instead of trying to make a buck off the system.


Good piece. I remember this from a while back

[Dustlawyer]

2. We fight so hard for the vote, for our candidates, we spend so much in campaign donations,

knocking on doors, voter registration... yet we seem to overlook something that can wipe it all away. With all of what is at stake why would we not focus on this?

Stephen Spoonamore, a computer security expert who works worldwide to protect our credit cards describes our electronic voting system as an easily hackable joke. He said that for two million dollars you could change the Presidential election. With all of the money spent on candidates, why wouldn't they guarantee a win?

This only has 3 recs, it is long, but we should all be watching this and doing something!