Subject: From ROBERT COHEN re: MY DOCUMENTARY on HBO

[helderheid]

From: ROBERT COHEN
Date: Oct 24, 2006 12:44 PM
Subject: From ROBERT COHEN re: MY DOCUMENTARY on HBO


Hiya,

As you know, the last three years for me, have been continuous work on my documentary
about the threat of electronic voting machines to our democracy, now finally titled, "Hacking Democracy."

Well the work and success of this project is now complete as the film is premiering on November 2nd
and I am now the producer of an HBO documentary.

This is of course incredibly exciting for me, to be getting this film out and helping to grow awareness about this
issue for citizens everywhere.

I thank you all for all your interest and support of this project and my work on this. My partners on this project
extend their thanks as well. Please forward this information to all interested parties.

All best,

Robert Carrillo Cohen
Producer
Hacking Democracy


HBO page on HACKING DEMOCRACY
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/hackingdemocracy/index.html


EXCERPTS from
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3605

HBO to Premier 'Hacking Democracy' Just Prior to November Election!
Landmark Documentary Will Feature Exclusive Footage of First Known Hack of Diebold Optical-Scan Voting System!
Investigative E-Voting Fraud Film — Three Years in the Making — to Debut on Cable Channel Nov. 2nd!

HBO has just announced that they will debuting Hacking Democracy, the long-awaited documentary film by Simon Ardizzone, Robert Carrillo Cohen and Russell Michaels, on November 2nd — just days before millions of Americans will head to the polls to use all-new untested, inaccurate, hackable, electronic voting systems for the first time.

The investigative film, nearly three years in the making, is said to lay out a devasting case against E-voting in general, and Diebold in specific. The film, previously known as VoterGate, was released on the Internet in a very short, bare-bones "Presidential Election Special" just prior to the 2004 Election.

The earlier clips were released for free on the Internet in 2004 when the filmmakers felt they had already acquired so much important footage they felt a responsibility to do something with it before the Presidential Election.

But as remarkable as the revelations of that short version were, that was then and this is now; Some two years, miles of footage, and at least two or more actual demonstrated voting machine hacks later. The now-retitled film includes scores of fresh never-before-seen interviews, damning statements and documents, and culminates in one of the most devasting moments in E-voting's short and sordid history: The Leon County Florida Hack, by computer security expert Harri Hursti, of a Diebold optical-scan voting machine in December of 2005.

The filmmakers were there for that watershed moment when the legendary Supervisor of Elections in Leon County, Ion Sancho, allowed independent computer security experts the opportunity to try and hack his paper-based Diebold optical scan voting system. The result was a flipped mock election, with no trace of the hack left behind, save for the paper ballots (which, in Florida, are now illegal to examine by hand after already counted by a machine.)

Diebold said it couldn't be done. Diebold, apparently, lied.

That hack resulted in shock-waves across the national electoral landscape as it revealed the very real consequences of what had, up until then, been a largely theoretical fear about the vulnerability of electronic voting machines to malicious tampering.

An election had now been flipped for the first time on an actual voting system. This one, a paper based Diebold model. The touch-screen systems, we would later learn, were even more vulnerable.

The Leon County Hack will be seen, as it occurred, for the first time when HBO premiers the film just days before this November's general election when millions of Americans will be using those same new, hackable optical-scan and touch-screen voting systems made by Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Hart InterCivic and others for the first time.

[Scout1071]

1. I'm confused, where did he post that message? nt

[helderheid]

2. It was a forwarded email sent to me

[helderheid]

3. .