NYT Does a Nice Review of "Hacking Democracy"

[lady lib]

TV Review | 'Hacking Democracy'
In the Land of ‘Every Vote Counts,’ Uncertainty on Whether It’s Counted Correctly
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN

(snip)
Hacking Democracy” follows Ms. Harris and her band of unmerry women (and male hackers and hangers-on) as they trudge to polling places, corporate headquarters and court hearings looking for answers. An “irregularity” — that’s computerese for blank existential terror — that shows up in Volusia County, Fla., in November 2000 energizes their cause: in that county, Mr. Gore seems to have received “-16,022” votes. A deficit. Negative votes. It doesn’t take a scientist from Stanford to explain that is just, um, bad.

A second memory card, which vanished into thin air (naturally), may have been loaded into the computer that counted the votes. That’s fraud of the highest order. Susan Bernecker, a Republican candidate for City Council in Jefferson Parish, La., in the mid-1990s, went to test the voting machines years ago. Twice, in a demo, she pressed her own name to see how it would register; twice the name of her opponent was registered in the memory of the machine. They test 15 more machines and find the same results.

Rigged voting in Louisiana? Say it ain’t so. But it’s not shocked-shocked you feel watching this; it’s genuine shock. As the drama proceeds, adducing more evidence for the unreliability of the voting machines than can possibly be explored here, you might also feel flattened. Computers count around 80 percent of votes in America. The marketing director for Diebold, Mark Radke, who defends both the company and its chief executive (a major Republican fund-raiser who once promised in a letter to “deliver the electoral votes of Ohio” to President Bush), talks in maddening doublespeak and wears the arched-eyebrow expression of a silent-movie fiend. His Nixon-era nondenial denials turn the stomach.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/arts/television/02hack.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=arts&pagewanted=print

[texpatriot2004]

1. K & R for Transparent Democracy nm

[lady lib]

2. For those of us who don't have HBO...

any ideas on where the show might be posted so we can see it?

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. k&r for electoral integrity n/t