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- Most voter suppression tactics are hacks — not specifically against the rules but subverting the goals of an election. So is deliberately running a third-party candidate with a similar name as one’s opponent to confuse voters (happens a lot outside of the US).
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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.
Sep 14, 2020 · Are cyber-enabled information warfare (IW) campaigns uniquely threatening when compared with traditional influence operations undertaken by state actors? Or is the recent “hacking” of Western democracies simply old wine in new—but fundamentally similar—bottles?
- Christopher Whyte
- 2020
Aug 7, 2023 · The 2020 US Election, the 2021 Labour Party hack, Solar Winds, the Pegasus scandal, and the 2017 French elections are just a few on a long list of politically motivated cyberattacks that represent a direct attack on democracy.
Oct 6, 2020 · From disrupting the political discourse with false information to inflaming and stoking political divisions digital technologies allows for a variety of ways for malicious actors to target democracies. This article compares different state experiences with interference in sovereign and contested political decisions.
- Niels Nagelhus Schia, Lars Gjesvik
- 2020
Jan 31, 2023 · You call out democracy as one of the areas where unchecked hacking can weaken systems. Can you give an example of a hack that undermines democracy? There are many hacks that subvert the democratic process in the US.
"Hacking Democracy" uncovers incendiary evidence from the trash cans of Texas to the ballot boxes of Ohio, exposing secrecy, votes in the trash, hackable software and election officials rigging the presidential recount.
In Coding Democracy, Maureen Webb offers another view. Hackers, she argues, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice, an ethos, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens are inventing new forms of distributed, decentralized democracy for a digital era.
