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Someone, please, Baker Act this woman . . .

posted 17 years ago by amanjones
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The woman crying at the end of the documentary - what a pedantic, attention-seeking pillowcase. It is inconceivable that our taxpayer dollars go to the employ of such a sad sack of humanity. While it would appear our electioneering is not perfect, I do not beleive there is any malfeasance or foul play, as alleged in the documentary, and by the blubbering low-level bureaucrat at its end. Elections are run by local supervisors and their employees, the statewide political machinery of either party is hardly in control. Rather, these are elections run by human beings - and human beings are not infallible. That being said, if the crying woman cares to place the blame on her distress, all she needs to do is to take one of her two fifteen minute breaks she gets in the AM or the PM and take a look in the mirror. It is most likely her fault.

[–] frogprince-2 17 years ago

You are so sadly cynical, and SO wrong.

The lady who cries at the end of "Hacking Democracy" is crying because she is an ordinary American woman who has spent years trying to find out the truth behind Florida's elections and expose the lies about the machines that count the votes. She is not an election official at all, but was a guest observer (and voter) at the hacked election at the end of the film.

She has been repeatedly lied to and belittled by state, county and voting machine company officials and at the end of the movie she suddenly has the proof that the Diebold machines can be hacked and rigged in exactly the way that the Diebold company claimed (on camera) was impossible. Her reaction is one of the most honest things I've seen in connection with our nation's desperate election system. One average lady's tears for the truth sum up the fight that's going on from Florida to Washington State.