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How to trace family history/heratige for free online? Not ancestory.com, I can't figure out how to use that site. Also, it doesn't have any records for me because I'm 14. I wanna know like what my heratige is. My mom says she is like Irish Scotish British and a little German, but I want to actually know. Is there a site that can tell me??
Where can I see free death records online? I am big into family history, and I cant find a website that you can find death records for free. My grandpa's mom is the only great-grandma that I didn'tget to know, because she died before I was born, and I want to know when she died. I'm not sure if I should ask my Grandpa because it might be a touchy situation.
where can I find free death records online, with NO fee? I am big into family history, and I cant find a website that you can find death records for free. My grandpa's mom is the only great-grandma that I didn'tget to know, because she died before I was born, and I want to know when she died. I'm not sure if I should ask my Grandpa because it might be a touchy situation.
Where can I find my Property History online for FREE? I've search google 200x's over and can't find a free history site.... The thing is I have a 3 mo. old and things have always been weird but now OMG! When my daughter is sleeping there has been ppl telling me when they glance in on her there is a man standing at her bed side just staring at her. Tonight I had some family visiting and they claim to have heard a newborn baby crying down the hall past my daughter's bedroom and I tried to ignore it becuz i knew it was not my daughter... "thank god it's not just me" is all i could say lol but this has been going on since she was born and lately she doesn't want to sleep unless some one is in the same room or holding her at all times......and lately its started at my work however I had no problems until I moved here so I'd like to know what's going on... does any1 know a site for FREE public records that actually works????
vital records online free? Im trying to find some family history and im trying to fnd birth records, marriage certificates, etc. Im trying to do this online because i dont know the exact location where my relatives were born or married, but every site i have gone to says its free but then i typein the name and get like 45 results but it wont let me view them until i pat a fee. Im looking for a site that does not do this..anyone know a site that doesnt do this? thank you
What is the best free site to view Italian birth, death and marriage records online for free? I'm doing a lot of research on my family tree and I've covered so much history on my mom's side of the family and my dad's mom's side. On my dad's dad's side though, it becomes very difficult... I know he was born in Italy and I got his birth and death date from the Social Security Death Index... and I found what I believe to be his immigration file from Ellis Island, but when I'm at a loss after that. I need a good place where I can look through records from Italy... and I haven't found one yet. Any help is appreciated!
How do I look at online records without having to pay at all for them? I'm doing family history research, and I've been trying to look up birth, death, marriage, etc records. Every site I go to you have to pay SOMETHING for them. I want FREE online records that I can look at ONLINE without having to pay or get them shipped to my house. My Mom said to look at court houses, but I can't find our court houses online. I live in Mississippi, but I'm looking for records in Pemiscot County of Missouri. That's where most of my family moved to in the 1900's on my Dad's side. On my Mom's side, I have no clue. Probably Tennessee because they were full Cherokee Indians. And she is half Cherokee Indian. My Great Aunt has done my Dad's side of the familys history all the way back to before the civial war, but she's too picky to share with me any of it. Anyway, if anyone knows a completely free website where you can look at ONLINE records, then please tell me. And remember NO PAYMENTS. NONE. lol. Most people that answer me always give me a website and they still have some kind of a payment on there. And I don't want to have to pay anything at all.
Family History UK question about info on birth certificates? OK. Thanks in advance. I have been able to access the various free online records of Births Deaths Marriages. Thats all cool. The trouble is that I cannot go further back after that. Unless I am missing something. I have looked for instance at my great grandmothers birth reference on the register. Its 6d 220. Now I know that its volume 6d page 220. Fine. But in order to go further back - i.e. find out who her father was and her mother I need to buy the birth certificate which will have that info on it. Except that is £10 or just under. I have a huge family and that's going to get very expensive. I mean she had 17 children for example. I don't want a copy of the certificate. I just want to view it. Is that possible online for free. Or am I living in cloud cuckoo land lol. Thanks as I said in advance. I'll get there. Hi - thanks for all your answers - it was as I feared. lol. Extra details for Mumsey - Caroline Phoebe Cox - nee Wingfield Born Jan Feb Mar in 1877 in Kings Norton Birmingham. Died 1951 Married: Arthur Cox - Born 1876 - of I believe the same area. Thanks again for all your help.
Free Online Medical Record Storage? Hello all- I'm wondering if this exists... I'm not great at remembering things like when my last surgery was, or what dose of medications I'm on so I'm looking for a free place to store my medical records. I would want it to keep track of what diagnosis I've received, surgeries I've undergone, medicines I'm taking, vaccinations, family health history and all those other little pesky little questions they ask you when you go in for physicals. It would be nice too if it were to print off a nice little summary. Any ideas?
Are there any sites that allow you to view Tennessee census records for free? I have been researching my family history online using www.familysearch.org. It is a free service but I have been having trouble finding records for a particular person and I was wondering if there was another resource that might be of help. I know for a fact that this person was living in Hamilton Tennessee on September 15 1867 and I would like to know if there is a free site I could use to look up the Tennessee census records. This project means a lot to me and my family so any help would be greatly appreciated.
How Can I Assess BIRTH And DEATH Records, MARRIAGE Records And Other PUBLIC Records For FREE ...? I'm trying to track down my family history. Mama can only tell me so much, and then it's a dead end. All the older folks in my family are gone, and the public records at the courthouse only go so far. Mama is also ill, so she gets short-tempered if I ask her too many questions. I have to almost catch her when she's in a reminiscent mood ... and THEN I'll have to be ready with a tape recorder, or I'll miss a lot of what she's got to say. I can't find a good online site that'll give me anything! I can, of course, pay for the records I need just to get the names and the dates that I'm looking for ... but it'll cost me a pretty penny! Some of these records won't be in the free archives for a few more years, since they wait 50 years after the person's death to release them to the public for free. If it were a simple thing like tracing one family lineage, I probably wouldn't have much of a problem. But I'm talking centuries of scattered slaves with no Census Bureau records, as well as Native American ancestry ... and I don't even know what tribe! It'll be REALly interesting to find out if I'm related to a certain public figure with whom I share a last name ... maybe one of his ancestors owned one of mine? But, Alas! I don't exactly know where to start!
Birth records? i'm learning more and more about my family history, but i am trying to find out about my grandmother's parents and i need some kind of birth record or marriage record that is free online
Help with researching family history! Please help!? I have most of the names going back to my great great grandparents. I also have a few historical events through talking with family that actually happend. Now what's next? How do I find official newspaper articles and other documents that I can print or copy? Any online resources would be better because not all of my family lives and came from the state I live now. Where can I find free public records (Companies charge but if it's public I know it should be free.) of my relatives dating back 1900 - back? Any advice and resources would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.
Where can I find an online database with birth date records? I'm doing some research for my family history and I have been searching for a website that will allow me to look up birth, death, and marriage records for free. Most of my family has been in kentucky for a while if that makes a difference. Most all the sites I find ask you to pay or want you to order the actual certificates, but all I want is to know the dates that these events occurred. If you have any idea where I can find a website like this, I would greatly appreciate if you could let me know! Thanks!
Does anyone know how i can look at the federal census for 1880-1930 free of charge? I'm am trying to look up my family history to see were i come from. Looking up my surname won't give me all the answers i'm looking for because i am an african american. Looking up the federal census would help a great deal and so would taking a geneology DNA test. The problem with the census though is where ever i go to look up past family members there happens to be some sort of a fee for just looking. Now i don't have the money to travel to my family's home state to look up historical documents so that is completly out of the question. And Ansestry .com seems like they're looking to entrap people because they want you to give them your credit card number online i'm alittle bit uncomfortable with that. They also said they would give you a free 2 week trail which is nice but they want your home address,so you can't view the records unless you give them this information, I don't want to do that because i am only a teen .
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Geneaology advice, please!? Hi, I'm looking into my family history and have been really disappointed to find that lots of records don't seem to be available online or at least not for free. Does anyone have any advice or tips for finding out more about my family without spending a lot of money? My family is from Southern Italy, if that helps. Thanks!
New York City adoption search? I am an adopted person. I am interested in finding (and possibly contacting) my biological parents.At the very least I would like to know what ethnic group I am derived from and maybe a little about my family history.I was born more decades ago than I want to admit! Anyway I was born in NYC. In New York State the adoption records are sealed and I'm told I would need a court order to have my adoption record opened. I have no idea how to do this. I can't afford a lawyer right now. I do know the name of the adoption agency and I actually contacted them about 10 yeas ago. I got an information sheet on my biological mother but it was vague and generic. It said my biological mother was "born in the Mid-West", the Mid-West is a big place! I was also told my biological mother has some connection with the Unitarian Church and she worked for the US government in Europe as a writer. Very recently, while digging though my parent's old file cabinet I found some papers and I have what I think is my biological mother's name but it is relatively common name and is not a lot to go on. Also about a year ago while surfing online I came across a free adoption search service staffed by volunteer retirees. I contacted them and gave then my info. I got a call back from them a week later. The message said it was "urgent" but unfortunately my room mate at the time deleted the message! I have not been able to find this adoption search group again. I have searched on various adoption registry databases, nothing there.Would anyone have any advice or pointers? Would anyone know the name of the volunteer adoptee search group? I think they are NY based but I'm not sure.
Using other peoples sources, material, research for business? I wonder if someone can help? I have been researching my family history over the last few years and have really enjoyed it! I'd like to turn a hobby into a part time business and research other peoples family history, in return for payment. I'm an amateur and if it took off I'd consider gaining qualifications. Most of my research would be undertaken online via subscribed sites and free sources. Before I start my main concern is complying with copyright and such legislation when using other companies research and using it for my end results. I assume a lot of industries rely on other companies research in their work too?! Would it basically mean I would have to record the companies I obtained the information from, like a bibliography? Thank you for your time, any help would be gladly received
Criminal Record Does Not Appear, Anywhere? So, had an experience years ago (whatever you may feel about the stigma involved here, I'll be fully accurate)... I was CHARGED with misd. domestic violence-under this states law, someone MUST go. Regardless of gender (so this is not a "the man gets screwed" rant). A verbal dispute escalated into a very loud verbal argument. There was NO, I repeat NO violent physical act, nor threats. None. Zero. The argument, wrongfully, took place near an open window, and the police were called (not from our address). I was charged with DV, why?, my wife and I, whom I am still married too all these years later, are still unsure. My wife refused to sign the police officer's version of the events-there was very little of a case. But under this state's law (MI) it MUST be prosecuted. I plead guilt to disorderly person. For all intents and purposes, I was being disorderly. I was being very loud. So the way I looked at it, c'est la vie. There was no special deal to have my sentence completion rendered "under advisement" (wiped clean after a set period of time) or anything to that effect. Plead guilty, did my probation, community service, moved on with life and my family. Fast forward 7 years. I was reading on here someone asking a question about the Lautenberg Amendment. I thought it was very interesting. I had never heard of it. I'm not in the military, nor a gun owner. But there was a debate over DV cases rendering someone non-permissible as a gun owner. Then, someone went on to state that a crime with "DV elements" discludes someone from their 2nd amendment rights. (Which is somewhat supported by writings elsewhere online from law firms and legal discussion boards). Now, to qualify this further so you get the whole picture. Since my conviction I applied for a new job (4 years ago), I disclosed my conviction for disorderly person-and explained it. No problems, I was hired. HR came to me weeks later, in an off the record (no pun intended) conversation-the HR person said, "you know, the company that did your background check found nothing". *Note: I had no previous record, nor anything since-including no traffic violations of civil citations. I thought it odd, but dismissed it as they must have used a lousy background check company. So yesterday, out of complete curiosity, I went down to the local police station and discussed gun permits with the desk Sargent. I told him my history from beginning to end, and I only wanted to apply for a gun purchase permit to "see". (No need to lie to the cop who was about to see my history, right?) He explained it would likely disclude me, but it was free to do, and he was more than willing to give it a shot for me. I filled out the appropriate paperwork, I acknowledged and filled out "yes" to an arrest for DV but not convicted per the law and requirements, did the questionnaire, the test (100% by the way, haha) and he proceeded to run all the checks. CLEMIS, L.E.I.N., and NCIC... I was watching the officer flip through papers, with a look of bewilderment on his face for a few minutes. Suddenly he says, "Sir, were you required to take PBT's (alcohol breath tests) at the ******** Police Station as a requirement of probation or pre-sentencing?", I confirmed that yes I had. He pauses for another minute then says, "Sir, that's all I have for under the coding we use for "contacts with police" (which surprised me that there is a permanent record of all contacts w/police. Good and bad, but that's another question for another day)... he went on to say, "there is nothing else". "You don't have a criminal record, nor a record of arrest, on any system... anywhere". 5 minutes later, I had my permit to purchase a hand gun. I asked him if this is normal, he said "these days, y'never know. You should ask your attorney". To avoid, $250 p/hr in billable time, thought I'd throw this to the omnipotent Yahoo masses to see if anyone here had some input first.(Plus, its Saturday, not like I can call my attorney today anyway). I can't find anything similar online, or through case law, etc. Last applicable note: I have never petitioned for an expungement. Even if I had, my arrest would most certainly have appeared on NCIC.
Is taking out a pay day loan my only option? I need a very fast $1500 and I don't know the best solution. I live in Los Angeles and work a full time job and have another part time job on the side. However, even with that, money is still very tight. Under normal circumstances, I am able to make ends meet every month, but I rarely have much of anything left over. However, the last few months have been filled with a string of family financial problems. My parents are close to foreclosing on their house and the my dad was laid off. Consequently, I have had to help my parents pay their mortgage and bills. It is deeply saddening to see them in that state and has been horribly embarrassing for my parents to have to ask me for money. All in all, I make about 2100/month, including tips. I pay about 950 in rent and utilities and 75 for students loans. Then there's insurance, food, and some expensive prescriptions thrown in. However, because I have had to give my parents a substantial chunk of money each of the last few months (and pay my brothers rent when he couldn't, last month), i have been left with just barely enough for rent this month. I don't have any credit cards or a car. After college I had a hard time paying students loans and they went into default. However, they gave me a one time opportunity to pay my way out of default and clear my record. I did that and am back in good standing. However, this is still on my credit history (something that I have filed a claim about). Due to my own stupidity, I am facing a very big need for $1500 ASAP. This morning when I went to the DMV to apply for my CA license (from Nevada), I found out that I have an outstanding ticket from more than a year ago. I want to kick myself. Basically, I need to have a license that is valid (and warrant free) because my full time job requires me to run errands on a daily basis...and because I would like to avoid jail time! I called the courthouse and if I pay the ticket amounting to around $1500. it will be done with and I can get my California license and be legal and move on. However, I just don't have it. I don't have anything even close to it. Nor do my friends or family members. If I owned anything that was of any value, I would sell it. I can't come up with a fast solution. I have read lot's of horror stories about payday loans and 90 day installment loans and the last thing that I want to do is get back in over my head and spiral back in default. It was a terrible feeling. Is there any other reasonable solution? And if taking a payday loan is the only answer, how do I avoid shady practices? Lastly, in order to compare payday loan's, it appears that I have to fill out the forms with my info on their websites. Is this something that the credit bureau's see? I don't want to negatively impact my credit score by simply "applying" online to see quotes. Thank you for taking the time to read this long post! Best, K
What do you think of the following article? EXTRA HELP When Special Education Goes Too Easy on Students Parents Say Schools Game System, Let Kids Graduate Without Skills By JOHN HECHINGER and DANIEL GOLDEN August 21, 2007; Page A1 GREENPORT, N.Y. -- On June 25, 2006, Michael Bredemeyer threw his tasseled cap in the air and cheered after getting his high school diploma. Two days later, his parents mailed the diploma back. [More Data on Mainstreaming] * * * Plus, read more about the challenges of integrating special-needs students, at WSJ.com/Mainstreaming. Michael, now 19 years old, has learning disabilities and finished high school at a seventh-grade reading level, despite scoring above average on IQ tests. The Bredemeyers say he passed some classes because teachers inflated his grades and accepted poor work. By awarding him a meaningless diploma, they say, school officials avoided paying for ongoing instruction. "I felt proud because he had worked so hard," says Michael's mother, Beverly, her voice breaking. "You don't want to take that away from him. But you knew it wasn't real. What's he going to do in the future? Will he be able to go to college and get a job?" The Bredemeyers represent a new voice in special education: parents disappointed not because their children are failing, but because they're passing without learning. These families complain that schools give their children an easy academic ride through regular-education classes, undermining a new era of higher expectations for the 14% of U.S. students who are in special education. Years ago, schools assumed that students with disabilities would lag behind their non-disabled peers. They often were taught in separate buildings and left out of standardized testing. But a combination of two federal laws, adopted a quarter-century apart, have made it national policy to hold almost all children with disabilities to the same academic standards as other students. The 1975 statute now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act promoted putting special-education students in mainstream classrooms. The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act said schools would be punished if disabled children don't pass the same state tests as other students. It also requires states to set standards for high-school graduation rates and meet them for all students, including those with disabilities. By some measures, the extra attention is paying off. Test scores and classroom grades of disabled students are rising, and their high-school graduation rate increased to 54% in 2004 from 42% in 1996. But critics say some of the gains have come because schools have learned to game the system. For instance, federal rules allow states to make "reasonable accommodations" to help disabled students pass tests and graduate, such as allowing extra time on exams. Some schools, say critics, are giving students too much help, for instance by guiding students to the right answers on multiple-choice tests. MAKING THE GRADE • The Issue: Some parents of students with learning disabilities say their children are graduating too easily. • The Background: Federal laws raised school standards, but left loopholes. Increasingly, special-education students get special help to pass tests. • The Problem: If schools game the system, those students move on without the skills they need. From 2000 to 2005, special-education fourth graders showed more improvement in reading and math than the general population on an important benchmark test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress. But accommodations also increased. In 2005, 70% of fourth-grade special education students received some sort of accommodation while taking the math portion, up from 44% five years earlier. In reading, 63% used accommodations in 2005, up from 29% in 2000. On tests used to measure compliance with No Child Left Behind, more states are permitting students with disabilities to use calculators on arithmetic tests or have reading-comprehension tests be read aloud. Massachusetts education commissioner David Driscoll warned school administrators in February that an alarming number of special education students -- a quarter or half in some cases -- were receiving such accommodations on state exams. With unclear guidelines, "People start driving trucks through loopholes," he said in an interview. Some school districts have an informal policy against failing students with disabilities even if they miss many classes or aren't learning. "I can go into any school we represent and have somebody tell me we have to pass special education students" to avoid being blamed for not providing the right services if students fail, says Janet Horton, a Texas special-education attorney. Federal law says special-education students should receive a "free appropriate public education," but it doesn't prohibit failing them. Mardys Leeper and Carol Merrill, former teachers at West Philadelphia High School in Pennsylvania, say a special-education administrator there ordered them to pass special-education students. Ms. Leeper says she made concessions for students with disabilities, such as letting them write shorter essays or copy paragraphs she wrote onto a word processor rather than composing their own. But when those students didn't make an effort, or skipped class, both teachers say they sometimes sought to fail them -- only to have the administrator insist on passing grades. The reason they were given: Students had met the goals of their federally mandated individual education plans, IEPs, spelling out goals and services for each special-education student. "Students who weren't even participating, even trying, we couldn't fail them," says Ms. Merrill, an English teacher who retired this year. Even if they couldn't read, "I had to give them a 'D.'" The administrator couldn't be reached for comment. Brenda Taylor, head of special education for the Philadelphia school district, called the matter a "breakdown in communication." The district has no written policy against failing special-education students, she says. But rather than being "punitive" if a student performs poorly or cuts class, she says, the district prefers to revise a student's IEP. "We're not in the business of failing students," Ms. Taylor says. Only 19 states require all students to earn the same kind of diploma, according to a recent University of Minnesota survey. Some of those states let special-education students amass fewer course credits to earn the degree, the survey found. Other states give substitute certificates, in some cases called IEP diplomas, to special-education students who don't qualify for standard diplomas. Many special-education parents are happy to see their children advance through school and graduate. Reggie Felton, director of federal policy for the National School Boards Association, says special-education students learn more in regular classes even if they're given a break on assignments or grading. The federal government recently decided to triple the percentage of students allowed to take easier tests, to 3% from 1%. Some legislators have proposed exempting more students. But the rebellion against too-easy passing is growing, says Pam Wright, who with her husband has co-authored books on special education issues and operates a Virginia-based information clearinghouse for special-education parents. She estimates she now receives more than 1,000 email messages a year from parents lamenting that their children with disabilities take mainstream courses but aren't being taught as much as their classmates. Dozens of parents have contended in recent administrative appeals that their children did not deserve the diplomas they received, she says. The family of Alba Somoza, who has cerebral palsy and speaks only with the help of a computer, filed one such case. Alba drew national attention in the 1990s when her family successfully pushed to include the then-third grader in a regular classroom. Then-President Bill Clinton backed her cause, and Alba, now 23, graduated with honors from a New York City high school in 2002. Last year, Alba and her family filed an administrative case claiming her education was a sham. A school report prepared weeks before she graduated showed she had language and math skills at an elementary school level, court records show. "You cannot shunt children through -- you cannot scam them through the system," says Alba's mother, Mary. [Michael Bredemeyer] Since shortly after she graduated, New York has been paying for a special program for Alba that costs $400,000 a year -- including a full-time teacher, an aide, transportation and extensive technology. The city says it is doing so out of compassion, not legal obligation. The family is seeking to continue the public funding another year to help Alba receive enough education to work as a museum docent. The Somozas lost the administrative case, but a judge in U.S. District Court in Manhattan ruled in the family's favor earlier this year and ordered another hearing. Rather than develop a program that would help Alba reach her academic goals, teachers lowered the curriculum's "level of difficulty" and removed "large and meaningful portions of its substantive content," the judge said. One teacher testified that he did most of the work on Alba's final project in 2002. New York officials say the school properly adapted the curriculum for a severely disabled student. In northern California, Jennifer McGowan, an 18-year-old who is deaf in one ear and suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and learning disabilities, was supposed to graduate from Vacaville Unified School District in June. She didn't get her diploma -- because her family won a court injunction to stop it. In an interview, Jennifer said she often received A or B grades for poorly completed work or, at times, when she didn't do assignments at all or show up for class. Achievement tests she took in January 2005 showed that she had the math and reading skills of an elementary-school student, according to her administrative complaint. The school district denies her grades were inflated and said she showed her proficiency by passing a high-school exit exam. John Aycock, Vacaville's superintendent, said teachers did "a great job working with Jennifer." Jennifer says she failed the exit exam several times despite intensive preparation. "They just wanted to pass me and let me fly by," she says. The school system says it's not unusual to make several attempts to pass. At the Mercer Island school district in Washington state, the family of a girl with severe learning disabilities complains that, instead of the intense instruction she needed to master reading and math in eighth and ninth grades, teachers showered her with accommodations: a peer note-taker, a peer to read materials to her, oral exams, reduced assignments and a calculator on math tests. At an administrative hearing, the family -- whose names are not disclosed in the court papers -- sought to force the school system to pay for her private schooling. Noting her strong A and B grades, the district successfully argued that accommodations were helping her learn. In U.S. District Court in Seattle, a judge hearing an appeal of the case disagreed last year, saying the system improperly relied on accommodations rather than instruction, and has returned the case to a hearing officer to determine financial relief for the family. Boxes of school correspondence and Michael Bredemeyer's old tests and assignments line the hallways of his family's weather-beaten saltbox house in Orient, N.Y., on Long Island's North Fork. Michael's parents are demanding public funding for more services until age 21, to which students are entitled unless they graduate, so he can improve his academic skills for college. John Bredemeyer, a county public-health inspector, and his wife, Beverly, had high hopes for Michael, who has a strong work ethic and a knack for repairing machines. But once he entered public middle school in nearby Greenport, his parents worried that teachers were letting him skate through classes and tests. Michael, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and learning disabilities including dyslexia, says in some classes he "definitely earned" a passing grade, but others were "borderline." He took regular classes except for one period a day. "A little more one-on-one" instruction would have helped, he says. On state achievement exams, Michael's IEP permitted him extra time, simplified instructions and guidance from a teacher to slow him down if he rushed through answers. But when he completed the eighth-grade math test, his special-education teacher also took him to the resource room and directed him to redo problems he had answered incorrectly. According to a memo from Greenport Superintendent Charles Kozora, the teacher "exceeded the intent" of Michael's accommodations, boosting his score. The state investigated and invalidated Michael's test. [Revolt] Mr. Kozora said the school system had only two cases of testing irregularities in six years, few conflicts with parents over special education and "many successes" among students with disabilities. The district says achievement, and not cost, dictates its decisions on graduating students. When Michael was a junior at Greenport High, his chemistry teacher passed him with the minimum grade of 65, even though he says he spent much of the class doodling and playing solitaire on his laptop. Checking his assignments and tests, his parents couldn't understand how he could be passing. In a letter, the school principal acknowledged that the final grade was a "miscalculation" and should have been 56.6, or an F. The school offered to let him make up his lost credits by volunteering in the town library. When his parents balked, he was instead placed in courses in sociology and psychology. On one psychology pop quiz, five of Michael's seven answers were marked wrong, but a failing grade was crossed out on the paper and a passing score of 65 was substituted. The school district declined comment. For a senior English assignment, he received an A for one untitled paragraph. "I believe competition today has changed dramatically," he wrote. "Back in the day, sports was some of the only sports that had competition. Today, everyone wants to compete and only be successful. School work, school sports, major league sports, all involve high amounts of success and competition. Competition today has become very extreme." His English teacher, Michael Connolly, said he didn't remember the assignment and had no comment on the grade. On standardized tests, Michael had mixed results: On the SATs, which have a 200 to 800 scale, Michael received 330 and then 370 in two tries on the reading test, in the bottom 10% of all students nationally. On math, he scored 460 both times. He failed two state exams and passed five others. His school grades put him in the bottom one-third of his class. A month before graduation, the Bredemeyers debated whether he should accept the degree. "I wanted to have it," Michael says. "Get it and forget it." On graduation day, a school band played "Pomp and Circumstance." Michael's parents, his sister, his grandmother, aunts and uncles watched as he walked up to the podium and a school official handed him a purple diploma case with his name etched in gold letters. Michael says he knew his parents might not let him keep it. "I had a feeling they'd do something like that," he said, shrugging. "I'll eventually get it back, one of these days, months, years." This summer, Michael has been mowing lawns and picking up trash at a state park for $9 an hour. This fall, he plans to enter his second year at Suffolk County Community College, which does not require a high-school diploma. Last semester at Suffolk, he received a D-plus in freshman composition, D's in statistics and Western Civilization and an F in the history of rock 'n' roll. Write to John Hechinger at john.hechinger@wsj.com and Daniel Golden at dan.golden@wsj.com RELATED ARTICLES AND BLOGS Related Content may require a subscription | Subscribe Now -- Get 2 Weeks FREE Related Articles from the Online Journal • The Kids Are All Right • School Choice and Racial Balance • Back to Failing Schools • Tort-a-licious: The Trials of Law School Blog Posts About This Topic • SaukValley.com - Serving Dixon, Sterling & Rock Falls saukvalley.com • August 14, 2007 edspresso.com More related content Powered by Sphere
help i have no idea wat this means some body explain in short text 10 points best answer in plain explantion? Overview Instant messaging (IM) and chat are technologies that facilitate near real-time text based communication between two or more participants over a network. It is important to understand that what separates chat and instant messaging from technologies such as e-mail is the perceived synchronicity of the communication by the user - Chat happens in real-time before your eyes. For this reason, some people consider communication via instant messaging to be less intrusive than communication via phone. However, some systems allow the sending of messages to people not currently logged on (offline messages), thus removing much of the difference between Instant Messaging and e-mail. Instant Messaging allows instantaneous communication between a number of parties simultaneously, by transmitting information quickly. Some IM systems allow users to use webcams and Microphone which made them more popular than others. Due to this feature users can have a real-time conversation. In addition IM has additional features such as: the immediate receipt of acknowledgment or reply, group chatting, conference services (including voice and video), conversation logging and file transfer. IM allows effective and efficient communication, featuring immediate receipt of acknowledgment or reply. In certain cases Instant Messaging involves additional features, which make it even more popular, i.e. to see the other party, e.g. by using web-cams, or to talk directly for free over the Internet. It is possible to save a conversation for later reference. Instant messages are typically logged in a local message history which closes the gap to the persistent nature of e-mails and facilitates quick exchange of information like URLs or document snippets (which can be unwieldy when communicated via telephone). [edit] History In early instant messaging programs each character appeared when it was typed. The UNIX "talk" command shown in these screenshots was popular in the 1980s and early 1990s.Instant messaging actually predates the Internet, first appearing on multi-user operating systems like CTSS and Multics[1] in the mid-1960s. Initially, many of these systems, such as CTSS'.SAVED, were used as notification systems for services like printing, but quickly were used to facilitate communication with other users logged in to the same machine. As networks developed, the protocols spread with the networks. Some of these used a peer-to-peer protocol (eg talk, ntalk and ytalk), while others required peers to connect to a server (see talker and IRC). During the Bulletin board system (BBS) phenomenon that peaked during the 1980s, some systems incorporated chat features which were similar to instant messaging; Freelancin'_Roundtable was one prime example. In the last half of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, the Quantum Link online service for Commodore 64 computers offered user-to-user messages between currently connected customers which they called "On-Line Messages" (or OLM for short). Quantum Link's better known later incarnation, America Online, offers a similar product under the name "AOL Instant Messages" (AIM). While the Quantum Link service ran on a Commodore 64, using only the Commodore's PETSCII text-graphics, the screen was visually divided up into sections and OLMs would appear as a yellow bar saying "Message From:" and the name of the sender along with the message across the top of whatever the user was already doing, and presented a list of options for responding.[2] As such, it could be considered a sort of GUI, albeit much more primitive than the later Unix, Windows and Macintosh based GUI IM programs. OLMs were what Q-Link called "Plus Services" meaning they charged an extra per-minute fee on top of the monthly Q-Link access costs. Modern, Internet-wide, GUI-based messaging clients, as they are known today, began to take off in the mid 1990s with ICQ (1996) being the first, followed by AOL Instant Messenger (AOL Instant Messenger, 1997). AOL later acquired Mirabilis, the creators of ICQ. A few years later ICQ (by now owned by AOL) was awarded two patents for instant messaging by the U.S. patent office. Meanwhile, other companies developed their own applications (Excite, MSN, Ubique, and Yahoo), each with its own proprietary protocol and client; users therefore had to run multiple client applications if they wished to use more than one of these networks. In 1998 IBM released IBM Lotus Sametime, a product based on technology acquired when IBM bought Haifa-based Ubique and Lexington-based Databeam. In 2000, an open source application and open standards-based protocol called Jabber was launched. Jabber servers could act as gateways to other IM protocols, reducing the need to run multiple clients. Multi-protocol clients such as Digsby,Pidgin, Trillian, Adium and Miranda can use any of the popular IM protocols by using additional local libraries for each protocol. IBM Lotus Sametime's November 2007 release added IBM Lotus Sametime Gateway support for XMPP. Recently, many instant messaging services have begun to offer video conferencing features, Voice Over IP (VoIP) and web conferencing services. Web conferencing services integrate both video conferencing and instant messaging capabilities. Some newer instant messaging companies are offering desktop sharing, IP radio, and IPTV to the voice and video features. The term "instant messenger" is a service mark of Time Warner[3] and may not be used in software not affiliated with AOL in the United States. For this reason, the instant messaging client formerly known as Gaim or gaim announced in April 2007 that they would be renamed "Pidgin"[4]. [edit] Cooperation Standard free instant messaging applications offer functions like file transfer, contact lists, the ability to have similtaneous converstations etc. These may be all the functions that a small business needs but larger organisations will require more sophisticated applications that can work together. The solution to finding applications capable of this is to use enterprise versions of instant messaging applications. These include titles like Jabber, Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Office Communicator, etc., which are often integrated with other enterprise applications such as workflow systems. These enterprise applications, or Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), are built to certain constraints, namely storing data in a common format. There have been several attempts to create a unified standard for instant messaging: IETF's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and SIMPLE (SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions), APEX (Application Exchange), Prim (Presence and Instant Messaging Protocol), the open XML-based XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), more commonly known as Jabber and OMA's (Open Mobile Alliance) IMPS (Instant Messaging and Presence Service) created specifically for mobile devices. Most attempts at creating a unified standard for the major IM providers (AOL, Yahoo! and Microsoft) have failed and each continues to use its own proprietary protocol. However, while discussions at IETF were stalled, Reuters head of collaboration services, David Gurle (the founder of Microsoft's Real Time Communication and Collaboration business), signed the first inter-service provider connectivity agreement on September 2003. This agreement enabled AIM, ICQ and MSN Messenger users to talk with Reuters Messaging counterparts and vice-versa against an access fee. Following this, Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL came to a deal where Microsoft's Live Communication Server 2005 users would also have the possibility to talk to public instant messaging users. This deal established SIP/SIMPLE as a standard for protocol interoperability and established a connectivity fee for accessing public instant messaging clouds. Separately, on October 13, 2005 Microsoft and Yahoo! announced that by (the Northern Hemisphere) summer of 2006 they would interoperate using SIP/SIMPLE which is followed on December 2005 by the AOL and Google strategic partnership deal where Google Talk users would be able to talk with AIM and ICQ users provided they have an identity at AOL. There are two ways to combine the many disparate protocols: One way is to combine the many disparate protocols inside the IM client application. The other way is to combine the many disparate protocols inside the IM server application. This approach moves the task of communicating to the other services to the server. Clients need not know or care about other IM protocols. For example, LCS 2005 Public IM Connectivity. This approach is popular in Jabber/XMPP servers however the so-called transport projects suffer the same reverse engineering difficulties as any other project involved with closed protocols or formats. Some approaches, such as that adopted by the Sonork enterprise IM software or the Jabber/XMPP network or Winpopup LAN Messenger, allow organizations to create their own private instant messaging network by enabling them to limit access to the server (often with the IM network entirely behind their firewall) and administer user permissions. Other corporate messaging systems allow registered users to also connect from outside the corporation LAN, by using a secure firewall-friendly HTTPS based protocol. Typically, a dedicated corporate IM server has several advantages such as pre-populated contact lists, integrated authentication, and better security and privacy. Some networks have made changes to prevent them from being utilized by such multi-network IM clients. For example, Trillian had to release several revisions and patches to allow its users to access the MSN, AOL, and Yahoo! networks, after changes were made to these networks. The major IM providers typically cite the need for formal agreements as well as security concerns as reasons for making these changes. [edit] Mobile Instant Messaging Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) is a presence enabled messaging service that aims to transpose the desktop messaging experience to the usage scenario of being on the move. While several of the core ideas of the desktop experience on one hand apply to a connected mobile device, others do not: Users usually only look at their phone's screen — presence status changes might occur under different circumstances as happens at the desktop, and several functional limits exist based on the fact that the vast majority of mobile communication devices are chosen by their users to fit into the palm of their hand. Some of the form factor and mobility related differences need to be taken into account in order to create a really adequate, powerful and yet convenient mobile experience: radio bandwidth, memory size, availability of media formats, keypad based input, screen output, CPU performance and battery power are core issues that desktop device users and even nomadic users with connected network. [edit] Friend-to-friend networks Instant Messaging may be done in a Friend-to-friend network, in which each node connects to the friends on the friendslist. This allows for communication with friends of friends and for the building of chatrooms for instant messages with all friends on that network. Emotions are often expressed in shorthand. For example; lol. But a movement is currently underway to be more accurate with the emotional expression. Real time reactions such as (chortle) (snort) (guffaw) or (eye-roll) are rapidly taking the place of acronyms.[citation needed] [edit] Business application Instant messaging has proven to be similar to personal computers, e-mail, and the WWW, in that its adoption for use as a business communications medium was driven primarily by individual employees using consumer software at work, rather than by formal mandate or provisioning by corporate information technology departments. Tens of millions of the consumer IM accounts in use are being used for business purposes by employees of companies and other organizations. In response to the demand for business-grade IM and the need to ensure security and legal compliance, a new type of instant messaging, called "Enterprise Instant Messaging" ("EIM") was created when Lotus Software launched IBM Lotus Sametime in 1998. Microsoft followed suit shortly thereafter with Microsoft Exchange Instant Messaging, later created a new platform called Microsoft Office Live Communications Server, and released Office Communications Server 2007 in October 2007. Both IBM Lotus and Microsoft have introduced federation between their EIM systems and some of the public IM networks so that employees may use a single interface to both their internal EIM system and their contacts on AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!. Current leading EIM platforms include IBM Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Office Communications Server, and Jabber XCP. In addition, industry-focused EIM platforms such as IMtrader from Pivot Incorporated, Reuters Messaging, and Bloomberg Messaging provide enhanced IM capabilities to financial services companies. The adoption of IM across corporate networks outside of the control of IT organizations creates risks and liabilities for companies who do not effectively manage and support IM use. Companies implement specialized IM archiving and security products and services like those from Secure Computing, Akonix, SurfControl, and ScanSafe to mitigate these risks and provide safe, secure, productive instant messaging capabilities to their employees. [edit] Practical Use in Enterprise The popular embrace of IM technology for sharing information has quickly led to organizations adopting IM solutions for the perceived advantages that can be brought by it. As organizations are becoming more information based (McNurlin & Sprague, 2006, p.499) the need for effective knowledge sharing, team working and collaborative environments amongst employees has become vital, especially within more geographically dispersed teams. Typically IM conversations tend to have a certain "character", they are often short and only cover one topic. Media-switching and multitasking are common throughout, however IM might also be used between established coworkers and friends for longer, more intermittent conversation. In their report of IM use at the workplace Nardi et al. (2000) identifies the four primary functions of IM which are often cited in other reports, These primary functions are: Quick Questions and Clarifications Coordinating and scheduling tasks Coordinating impromptu social meetings Keeping in touch with friends and family IM is perhaps best suited to "Quick Questions and Clarifications" as this is the most often mentioned attribute in other reports. A user can "respond rapidly without the overhead of telephone or FTF interaction. For example, IDC reports, "Users see IM as a medium for quick, semi-permanent ‘flashes’ that beg a near-immediate response" (Isaacs et al., 2002). Nardi's second and third observations are enabled in part due to the "Presence Awareness" feature of IM clients in which the user knows who is "available". This is the most relevant for colleagues who share the same physical space as each other and even paves the way for other mediums to take up the task of communication e.g. F2F or Phone. The implication is that viable communication of any sort can in someway be encouraged through IM's "Presence Awareness" feature. (Issacs et al, 2002) supports this view, "IM in business might not be the main tool for of communication, it could just be the meeting point for another type of media e.g. conference calls. Nardi's third and fourth observations focus on the social use of IM, which have also been widely publicized in other report. That IM is used for keeping in touch with friends and arranging social events has led some employers to believe that it is used primarily for this purpose. According to (Issacs et al, 2002) a market study found that "'Fear of losing employee productivity’ was the greatest concern of businesses in regards to instant messaging". The study by (Issacs et al, 2002) goes on to suggest this fear is unfounded as it was found that on average "only 13% of conversations contained personal topics", and "only 6.4% were exclusively personal". [edit] Review of Products "IM solutions can typically be catagorised into two types: Enterprise Instant Messaging (EIM) and Consumer Instant Mesaging (CIM). Enterprise solutions use an internal IM server, however this isn't always feasible, particularly for smaller businesses with limited budgets. The second option, using a (CIM) provides the advantage of being inexpensive to implement and has little need for investing in new hardware or server software. However, in recent years open source IM clients such as Jabber have emerged that provide free EIM grade solutions. (Wikipedia,. 2008) For corporate use encryption and conversation archiving are usually regarded as important features due to security concerns. Sometimes the use of different operating systems in organizations calls for the use of software that supports more than one platform. For example many software companies use Windows XP in administration departments but have software developers who use Linux. Most people have had experience of using online chat and messaging over the internet whether it is with Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger, Skype or e-mail. One form of chat and messaging currently popular is Bebo. It is a non-corporate form of messaging which allows its user to create and maintain a social network. Libraries use chat applications and Morris Messenger is an application commonly used by them. This is a power based instant messenger, which uses Perl, SQL, and small Java. It accepts input from both staff and regular customers and saves important information in an SQL database built for the system. [edit] Risks and liabilities Although instant messaging delivers many benefits, it also carries with it certain risks and liabilities, particularly when used in workplaces. Among these risks and liabilities are: Security risks (e.g. IM used to infect computers with spyware, viruses, trojans, worms) Compliance risks Inappropriate use Intellectual property leakage Crackers (malicious "hacker" or black hat hacker) have consistently used IM networks as vectors for delivering phishing attempts, "poison URL's", and virus-laden file attachments from 2004 to the present, with over 1100 discrete attacks listed by the IM Security Center[5] in 2004-2007. Hackers use two methods of delivering malicious code through IM: delivery of virus, trojan, or spyware within an infected file, and the use of "socially engineered" text with a web address that entices the recipient to click on a URL that connects him or her to a website that then downloads malicious code. Viruses, worms, and trojans typically propagate by sending themselves rapidly through the infected user's buddy list. An effective attack using a poison URL may reach tens of thousands of people in minutes when each person's buddy list receives messages appearing to be from a trusted friend. The recipients click on the web address, and the entire cycle starts again. Infections may range from nuisance to criminal, and are becoming more sophisticated each year. In addition to the malicious code threat, the use of instant messaging at work also creates a risk of non-compliance to laws and regulations governing the use of electronic communications in businesses. In the United States alone there are over 10,000 laws and regulations related to electronic messaging and records retention.[6] The more well-known of these include the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA, and SEC 17a-3. Clarification from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") was issued to member firms in the financial services industry in December, 2007, noting that "electronic communications", "email", and "electronic correspondence" may be used interchangeably and can include such forms of electronic messaging as instant messaging and text messaging.[7] Changes to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, effective December 1, 2006, created a new category for electronic records which may be requested during discovery (law) in legal proceedings. Most countries around the world also regulate the use of electronic messaging and electronic records retention in similar fashion to the United States. The most common regulations related to IM at work involve the need to produce archived business communications to satisfy government or judicial requests under law. Many instant messaging communications fall into the category of business communications that must be archived and retrievable. Organizations of all types must protect themselves from the liability of their employees' inappropriate use of IM. The informal, immediate, and ostensibly anonymous nature of instant messaging makes it a candidate for abuse in the workplace. The topic of inappropriate IM use became front page news in October 2006 when Congressman Mark Foley resigned his seat after admitting sending offensive instant messages of a sexual nature to underage former House pages from his Congressional office PC. The Mark Foley Scandal led to media coverage and mainstream newspaper articles warning of the risks of inappropriate IM use in workplaces. In most countries, corporations have a legal responsibility to ensure harassment-free work environment for employees. The use of corporate-owned computers, networks, and software to harass an individual or spread inappropriate jokes or language creates a liability for not only the offender but also the employer. A survey by IM archiving and security provider Akonix Systems, Inc. in March 2007 showed that 31% of respondents had been harassed over IM at work.[8] Companies now include instant messaging as an integral component of their policies on appropriate use of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and other corporate assets. Within the company there is also the risk of employees using instant messaging to release confidential information and project details to an outside source. This issue is best controlled by a combination of written policy and technology. An organization's policies on use of IM in the workplace should be an integral part of the overall computing and network use policies, and should be published and communicated at least annually. In addition to written policy, organizations should implement "gateways" or IM security products to monitor content of inbound and outbound messages. Products from IM security providers (See section on IM security) typically allow administrators to set alerts and enforce policy (i.e. allow or block messages) based on keywords and regular expressions within instant messages. Employees may also misuse IM to communicate on a personal level with friends and family. This is poor use of a business’s time and resources, as the employee’s effectiveness will most certainly decrease due to the added distractions. (Licari, J., May 2005). Businesses often use IM security products to monitor and archive IM conversations for the purpose of minimizing this type of productivity drain. [edit] Security and archiving In the early 2000s, a new class of IT security provider emerged to provide remedies for the risks and liabilities faced by corporations who chose to use IM for business communications. The IM security providers created new products to be installed in corporate networks for the purpose of archiving, content-scanning, and security-scanning IM traffic moving in and out of the corporation. Similar to the e-mail filtering vendors, the IM security providers focus on the risks and liabilities described above. With rapid adoption of IM in the workplace, demand for IM security products began to grow in the mid-2000s. By 2007, the preferred platform for the purchase of security software had become the "appliance", according to IDC, who estimate that by 2008, 80% of network security products will be delivered via an appliance.[9] [edit] User base Note that many of the numbers listed in this section are not directly comparable, and some are speculative. Some instant messaging systems are distributed among many different instances and thus difficult to measure in total (e.g. Jabber). While some numbers are given by the owners of a complete instant messaging system, others are provided by commercial vendors of a part of a distributed system. Some companies may be motivated to inflate their numbers in order to increase advertisement earnings or to attract partners, clients, or customers. Importantly, some numbers are reported as the number of "active" users (without a shared standard of that activity), others indicate total user accounts, while others indicate only the users logged in during an instance of peak usage. Service User count Date/source AIM 53 million active September 2006 >100 million total January 2006 Jabber 40-50 million total January 2007, based on calculations of Jabber Inc 90 million total Based on calculations of Process-One: Process-One uses ejabberd as Jabber server software. If it is assumed that ejabberd has a 40% market share amongst public and private open source server deployments, there are 50 million users using open source servers. With Jabber Inc's numbers, this adds up to the 90 million number stated here. eBuddy 35 million total October 2006, including 4 million mobile users Windows Live Messenger 294 million active worldwide November 2007 Yahoo! Messenger 22 million total September 2006 QQ 20 million peak online (majority in China) 3 June 2006 221 million "active" (majority in China) 3 June 2006 IBM Lotus Sametime 17 million total (private, in enterprises) November 2007 ICQ 15 million active July 2006 Skype 12 million peak online February 2008 309 million total April 2008 Xfire 10 million total May 2008 MXit 7 million total (>560,000 outside of South Africa) 10 August 2007. Note that these users are part of the Jabber user base as MXit federates with the Jabber network. Gadu-Gadu 5.6 million total June 2006 Paltalk 3.3 million unique visitors per month August 2006 IMVU 1 million total June 2007 Mail.ru Agent 1 million active (daily) September 2006 Meebo 1 million total October 2006 PSYC 1 million active (daily) (majority in Brazil) February 2007. Total count cannot be accurately estimated due to the decentralized nature of the protocol. VZOchat >200,000 October 2007 [edit] IM Language Users sometimes make use of internet slang or text speak to abbreviate common words or expressions in order to quicken conversations or to reduce keystrokes. [edit] See also Comparison of instant messaging clients Comparison of instant messaging protocols Instant messaging manager LAN messenger Text messaging it is a question
What about Skeptics of Buddhism, like us ? Please Patiently read everything.? Buddhism for beginners (and sceptical Westerners) Introduction Now that Buddhism is such a fast-growing religion in the West, a lot of Westerners are attracted to its rational approach and rejection of an all-powerful deity. But all too often we Westerners quickly get stuck on the idea of rebirth and the various cultural traditions that have become a part of Buddhism in Asia. I've been there myself - wondering if rebirth is for real, if karma is scientific, if Buddhism is rational, why I have to bow to a statue, and so on - and I almost gave up at one point. I've noticed also that some Westerners pop up on the Internet looking for others who've converted to Buddhism, hoping they can discover the trick to becoming a Buddhist despite a materialist upbringing. So this page is a mixture of useful resources and my own personal experiences in fully accepting Dharma as a way of life. I hope it will be of some use to others on the same path. •Where should I start? •What is Buddhism? •Are rebirth and karma for real? •What is our purpose in life? •What's the difference between Theravada and Mahayana? •Which tradition should I choose? •How do I become a Buddhist? •Which are good books to read? Where should I start? If there's one place you should not start, it's reincarnation/rebirth. Newcomers to Buddhism tend to open every book at the section on rebirth because what happens to us after we die is all-important in the monotheistic culture we come from. But the Buddha wasn't teaching rebirth as the goal of life. He said many times, "I teach suffering, and the way out of suffering." That was his message, to make nirvana (Pali: nibbana) - the end of suffering - the goal. So the place to start is with the basics, the Four Noble Truths and a practice aimed at reducing suffering. If this seems worthwhile to you, you're on your way. In fact, the best way to start is by doing a lot of reading. You need to know about the basic principles of Buddhism, its founder, its history, the different traditions, and what it can do for you. Even though there's a lot of stuff available free on the Internet, I still think a well-written book is the best way to go. For all of the above, try John Snelling's The Buddhist Handbook : A Complete Guide to Buddhist Schools, Teaching, Practice, and History or Gill Farrer-Halls' The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom (which is also a handbook). These two books are both excellent primers to start off with. There's also a short overview titled What is Buddhism? from the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. For inspiring books written by Western monks who really understand Westerners' problems, try Ajahn Sumedho's The Mind and the Way : Buddhist Reflections of Life or Ajahn Jagaro's True Freedom, which is available online: •Chapter 1: True Freedom •Chapter 2: Compassion - The Natural Expression of Awakening •Chapter 3: Buddhism and God •Chapter 4: Beyond Boredom and Depression •Chapter 5: Buddhism and Vegetarianism •Chapter 6: Death and Dying Another book that's a must-read is Thich Nhat Hanh's little-known masterpiece, Old Path, White Clouds : Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha, a beautiful and easy-to-read story of the Buddha's life drawn from accounts in the Pali Canon and illustrated with line drawings. For a thorough explanation of the nuts and bolts of the teachings and practice, check out Ayya Khema's Being Nobody, Going Nowhere : Meditations on the Buddhist Path (very good at showing how ego rules our lives) or Henepola Gunaratana's Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness : Walking the Buddha's Path. There are a lot of good books on Dharma (Pali: Dhamma), but I'd recommend starting of with the original Theravada Buddhism and checking out the Mahayana traditions like Zen and Tibetan when you have a grasp of the basics. What you read will depend on what particular problems brought you to Buddhism in the first place. Some authors, the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh, for example, have written books on anger management. But it's important to practise too. In addition to following the Five Precepts, try practising Right Speech, generosity, compassion, being less self-centred, being less addicted to pleasures of the senses and being less concerned with possessions. And once you have a good grasp of the basic teachings and different traditions, it will be time to start meditating. Your situation in life may affect your practice and progress. If you live near a temple or Buddhist group, you'll be able to listen to Dharma talks, make Dharma friends and be with a community of like-minded people. If you don't, there are always the Internet and Buddhist forums such as E-Sangha and the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. I personally live in a Buddhist country where the majority of people don't understand the deeper teachings of Buddhism, so their focus is on making merit for a better rebirth and participating in ceremonies. So I rely a lot on the Internet, on Amazon and a few friends. I rarely go to temples. What is Buddhism? The following article is from the website of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. The author explains karma and rebirth in the traditionally accepted way and is somewhat sceptical about the origins of the Mahayana sutras, but otherwise it's an excellent overview of Buddhism. Introduction For more than 2,500 years, the religion we know today as Buddhism has been the primary inspiration behind many successful civilizations, the source of great cultural achievements and a lasting and meaningful guide to the very purpose of life for millions of people. Today, large numbers of men and women from diverse backgrounds throughout our world are following the Teachings of the Buddha. So who was the Buddha and what are His Teachings? The Buddha The man who was to become the Buddha was born Siddhattha Gotama around 2,600 years ago as a Prince of a small territory near what is now the Indian-Nepalese border. Though he was raised in splendid comfort, enjoying aristocratic status, no amount of material pleasure could satisify the enquiring and philosophic nature of the young man. At the age of 29 he left palace and family to search for a deeper meaning in the secluded forests and remote mountains of North-East India. He studied under the wisest religious teachers and philosophers of his time, learning all they had to offer, but he found it was not enough. He then struggled alone with the path of self- mortification, taking that practice to the extremes of asceticism, but still to no avail. Then, at the age of 35, on the full moon night of May, he sat beneath the branches of what is now known as the Bodhi Tree, in a secluded grove by the banks of the river Neranjara, and developed his mind in deep but luminous, tranquil meditation. Using the extraordinary clarity of such a mind with its sharp penetrative power generated by states of deep inner stillness, he turned his attention to investigate upon the hidden meanings of mind, universe and life. Thus he gained the supreme Enlightenment experience and from that time on he was known as the Buddha. His Enlightenment consisted of the most profound and all-embracing insight into the nature of mind and all phenomena. This Enlightenment was not a revelation from some divine being, but a discovery made by Himself and based on the deepest level of meditation and the clearest experience of the mind. It meant that He was no longer subject to craving, ill-will and delusion but was free from their shackles, having attained the complete ending of all forms of inner suffering and acquired unshakeable peace. The Teachings of the Buddha Having realized the goal of Perfect Enlightenment, the Buddha spent the next 45 years teaching a Path which, when diligently followed, will take anyone regardless of race, class or gender to that same Perfect Enlightenment. The Teachings about this Path are called the Dhamma, literally meaning "the nature of all things" or "the truth underlying existence". It is beyond the scope of this pamphlet to present a thorough description of all of these Teachings but the following 7 topics will give you an overview of what the Buddha taught: 1. The way of Inquiry The Buddha warned strongly against blind faith and encouraged the way of truthful inquiry. In one of His best known sermons, the Kalama Sutta, the Buddha pointed out the danger in fashioning one's beliefs merely on the following grounds: on hearsay, on tradition, because many others say it is so, on the authority of ancient scriptures, on the word of a supernatural being, or out of trust in one's teachers, elders, or priests. Instead one maintains an open mind and thoroughly investigates one's own experience of life. When one sees for oneself that a particular view agrees with both experience and reason, and leads to the happiness of one and all, then one should accept that view and live up to it! This principle, of course, applies to the Buddha's own Teachings. They should be considered and inquired into using the clarity of mind born of meditation. Only when one sees these Teachings for oneself in the experience of insight, do these Teachings become one's Truth and give blissful liberation. The traveller on the way of inquiry needs the practice of tolerance. Tolerance does not mean that one embraces every idea or view but means one doesn't get angry at what one can't accept. Further along the journey, what one once disagreed with might later be seen to be true. So in the spirit of tolerant inquiry, here are some more of the basic Teachings as the Buddha gave them. 2. The Four Noble Truths The main Teaching of the Buddha focuses not on philosophical speculations about a Creator God or the origin of the universe, or on a heaven world ever after. The Teaching, instead, is centred on the down-to-earth reality of human suffering and the urgent need to find lasting relief from all forms of discontent. The Buddha gave the simile of a man shot by a poison-tipped arrow who, before he would call a doctor to treat him, demanded to know first who shot the arrow and where the arrow was made and of what and by whom and when and where ... this foolish man would surely die before his questions could be well answered. In the same way, the Buddha said, the urgent need of our existence is to find lasting relief from recurrent suffering, which robs us of happiness and leaves us in strife. Philosophical speculations are of secondary importance and, anyway, they are best left until after one has well trained the mind in meditation to the stage where one has the ability to examine the matter clearly and find the Truth for oneself. Thus, the central Teaching of the Buddha, around which all other teachings revolve, is the Four Noble Truths: 1.That all forms of being, human and otherwise, are afflicted with suffering. 2.That the cause of this suffering is Craving, born of the illusion of a soul (see below, note 7). 3.That this suffering has a lasting end in the Experience of Enlightenment (Nibbana) which is the complete letting go of the illusion of soul and all consequent desire and aversion. 4.That this peaceful and blissful Enlightenment is achieved through a gradual training, a Path that is called the Middle Way or the Eightfold Path. It would be mistaken to label this Teaching as 'pessimistic' on the grounds that it begins by centring on suffering. Rather, Buddhism is 'realistic' in that it unflinchingly faces up to the truth of life's many sufferings and it is 'optimistic' in that it shows a final end of the problem of suffering - Nibbana, Enlightenment in this very life! Those who have achieved this ultimate peace are the inspiring examples who demonstrate once and for all that Buddhism is far from pessimistic, but it is a Path to true Happiness. 3. The Middle Way or Eightfold Path The Way to end all suffering is called the Middle Way because it avoids the two extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification. Only when the body is in reasonable comfort but not over-indulged has the mind the clarity and strength to meditate deeply and discover the Truth. This Middle Way consists of the diligent cultivation of Virtue, Meditation and Wisdom, which is explained in more detail as the Noble Eightfold Path. 1.Right Understanding 2.Right Thought 3.Right Speech 4.Right Action 5.Right Livelihood 6.Right Effort 7.Right Mindfulness 8.Right Concentration Right Speech, Action and Livelihood constitute the training in Virtue or Morality. For a practising Buddhist it consists of maintaining the five Buddhist Precepts, which are to refrain from: 1.Deliberately causing the death of any living being; 2.Intentionally taking for one's own the property of another; 3.Sexual misconduct, in particular adultery; 4.Lying and breaking promises; 5.Drinking alcohol or taking stupefying drugs which lead to lack of mindfulness. Right Effort, Mindfulness and Concentration refer to the practice of Meditation, which purifies the mind through the experience of blissful states of inner stillness and empowers the mind to penetrate the meaning of life through profound moments of insight. Right Understanding and Thought are the manifestation of Buddha-Wisdom which ends all suffering, transforms the personality and produces unshakeable serenity and tireless compassion. According to the Buddha, without perfecting the practice of Virtue it is impossible to perfect Meditation, and without perfecting Meditation it is impossible to arrive at Enlightenment Wisdom. Thus the Buddhist Path is a Gradual Path, a Middle Way consisting of Virtue, Meditation and Wisdom as explained in the Noble Eightfold Path leading to happiness and liberation. 4. Kamma Kamma means 'action'. The Law of Kamma means that there are inescapable results of our actions. There are deeds of body, speech or mind that lead to others' harm, one's own harm, or to the harm of both. Such deeds are called bad (or 'unwholesome') kamma. They are usually motivated by greed, hatred or delusion. Because they bring painful results, they should not be done. There are also deeds of body, speech or mind that lead to others' well being, one's own well being, or to the well being of both. Such deeds are called good (or 'wholesome') kamma. They are usually motivated by generosity, compassion or wisdom. Because they bring happy results, they should be done as often as possible. Thus much of what one experiences is the result of one's own previous kamma. When misfortune occurs, instead of blaming someone else, one can look for any fault in one's own past conduct. If a fault is found, the experience of its consequences will make one more careful in the future. When happiness occurs, instead of taking it for granted, one can look to see if it is the result of good kamma. If so, the experience of its pleasant results will encourage more good kamma in the future. The Buddha pointed out that no being whatsoever, divine or otherwise, has any power to stop the consequences of good and bad kamma. The fact that one reaps just what one sows gives to the Buddhist a greater incentive to avoid all forms of bad kamma while doing as much good kamma as possible. Though one cannot escape the results of bad kamma, one can lessen their effect. A spoon of salt mixed in a glass of pure water makes the whole very salty, whereas the same spoon of salt mixed in a freshwater lake hardly changes the taste of the water. Similarly, the result of a bad kamma in a person habitually doing only a small amount of good kamma is painful indeed, whereas the result of the same bad kamma in a person habitually doing a great deal of good kamma is only mildly felt. This natural Law of Kamma becomes the force behind, and reason for, the practice of morality and compassion in our society. 5. Rebirth The Buddha remembered clearly many of His past lives. Even today, many Buddhist monks, nuns and others also remember their past lives. Such a strong memory is a result of deep meditation. For those who remember their past life, Rebirth is an established fact which puts this life in a meaningful perspective. The Law of Kamma can only be understood in the framework of many lifetimes, because it sometimes takes this long for Kamma to bear its fruit. Thus Kamma and Rebirth offer a plausible explanation to the obvious inequalities of birth; why some are born into great wealth whereas others are born into pathetic poverty; why some children enter this world healthy and full-limbed whereas others enter deformed and diseased... The fruits of bad Kamma are not regarded as a punishment for evil deeds but as lessons from which to learn, for example, how much better to learn about the need for generosity than to be reborn among the poor! Rebirth takes place not only within this human realm. The Buddha pointed out that the realm of human beings is but one among many. There are many separate heavenly realms and grim lower realms, too, realms of the animals and realms of the ghosts. Not only can human beings go to any of these realms in the next life, but we can come from any of these realms into our present life. This explains a common objection against Rebirth that argues "How can there be Rebirth when there are ten times as many people alive today than there were 50 years ago?" The answer is that people alive today have come from many different realms. Understanding that we can come and go between these different realms, gives us more respect and compassion for the beings in these realms. It is unlikely, for example, that one would exploit animals when one has seen the link of Rebirth that connects them with us. 6. No Creator God The Buddha pointed out that no God or priest nor any other kind of being has the power to interfere in the working out of someone else's Kamma. Buddhism, therefore, teaches the individual to take full responsibility for themselves. For example, if you want to be wealthy then be trustworthy, diligent and frugal, or if you want to live in a heaven realm then always be kind to others. There is no God to ask favours from, or to put it another way there is no corruption possible in the workings of Kamma. Do Buddhists believe that a Supreme Being created the universe? Buddhists would first ask which universe do you mean? This present universe, from the moment of the 'big bang' up to now, is but one among countless millions in Buddhist cosmology. The Buddha gave an estimate of the age of a single universe-cycle of around 37,000 million years, which is quite plausible when compared to modern astrophysics. After one universe- cycle ends another begins, again and again, according to impersonal law. A Creator God is redundant in this scheme. No being is a Supreme Saviour, according to the Buddha, because whether God, human, animal or whatever, all are subject to the Law of Kamma. Even the Buddha had no power to save. He could only point out the Truth so that the wise could see it for themselves. Everyone must take responsibility for their own future well-being, and it is dangerous to give that responsibility to another. 7. The Illusion of Soul The Buddha taught that there is no soul, no essential and permanent core to a living being. Instead, that which we call a 'living being', human or other, can be seen to be but a temporary coming together of many activities and parts - when complete it is called a 'living being', but after the parts separate and the activities cease it is not called a 'living being' anymore. Like an advanced computer assembled of many parts and activities, only when it is complete and performs coherent tasks is it called a 'computer', but after the parts are disconnected and the activities cease it is no longer called a 'computer'. No essential permanent core can be found which we can truly call 'the computer', just so, no essential permanent core can be found which we can call 'the soul'. Yet Rebirth still occurs without a soul. Consider this simile: on a Buddhist shrine one candle, burnt low, is about to expire. A monk takes a new candle and lights it from the old. The old candle dies, the new candle burns bright. What went across from the old candle to the new? There was a causal link but no thing went across! In the same way, there was a causal link between your previous life and your present life, but no soul has gone across. Indeed, the illusion of a soul is said by the Buddha to be the root cause of all human suffering. The illusion of 'soul' manifests as the 'Ego'. The natural unstoppable function of the Ego is to control. Big Egos want to control the world, average Egos try to control their immediate surroundings of home, family and workplace, and almost all Egos strive to control what they take to be their own body and mind. Such control manifests as desire and aversion, it results in a lack of both inner peace and outer harmony. It is this Ego that seeks to acquire possessions, manipulate others and exploit the environment. Its aim is its own happiness but it invariably produces suffering. It craves for satisfaction but it experiences discontent. Such deep- rooted suffering cannot come to an end until one sees, through deep and powerful meditation, that the idea 'me and mine' is no more than a mirage. These seven topics are a sample of what the Buddha taught. Now, to complete this brief sketch of Buddhism, let's look at how these Teachings are practised today. Types of Buddhism One could say that there is only one type of Buddhism and that is the huge collection of Teachings that were spoken by the Buddha. The original Teachings are found in the 'Pali Canon', the ancient scripture of Theravada Buddhism, which is widely accepted as the oldest reliable record of the Buddha's words. Theravada Buddhism is the dominant religion in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. Between 100 to 200 years after the passing away of the Buddha, the Sangha (the monastic community) split over the political question of 'Who runs the Sangha?' A controversy over some monastic rules was decided by a committee of Arahats (fully Enlightened monks or nuns) against the views of the majority of monks. The disgruntled majority resented what they saw as the excessive influence of the small number of Arahats in monastery affairs. From then on, over a period of several decades, the disaffected majority partially succeeded in lowering the exalted status of the Arahat and raising in its place the ideal of the Bodhisattva (an unenlightened being training to be a Buddha). Previously unknown scriptures, supposedly spoken by the Buddha and hidden in the dragon world, then appeared giving a philosophical justification for the superiority of the Bodhisattva over the allegedly 'selfish' Arahat. This group of monks and nuns were first known as the 'Maha Sangha', meaning 'the great (part) of the monastic community'. Later, after impressive development, they called themselves the 'Mahayana', the 'Greater Vehicle' while quite disparagingly calling the older Theravada 'Hinayana', the 'Inferior Vehicle'. Mahayana still retains most of the original teachings of the Buddha (in the Chinese scriptures these are known as the 'Agama' and in the Tibetan version as the 'Kangyur') but these core teachings were mostly overwhelmed by layers of expansive interpretations and wholly new ideas. The Mahayana of China, still vibrant in Taiwan, reflects an earlier phase of this development, the Mahayana of Vietnam, Korea and Japan (mostly Zen) is a later development, and the Mahayana of Tibet and Mongolia is a much later development still. Buddhism's relevance to the world today Today, Buddhism continues to gain ever wider acceptance in many lands far beyond its original home. Here in Australia, many Australians through their own careful choice are adopting Buddhism's peaceful, compassionate and responsible ways. The Buddhist Teaching of the Law of Kamma offers our society a just and incorruptible foundation and reason for the practice of a moral life. It is easy to see how a wider embracing of the Law of Kamma would lead any country towards a stronger, more caring and virtuous society. The Teaching of Rebirth places this present short lifetime of ours in a broader perspective, giving more meaning to the vital events of birth and death. The understanding of Rebirth removes so much of the tragedy and grief surrounding death and turns one's attention to the quality of a lifetime, rather than its mere length. From the very beginning, the practice of meditation has been at the very heart of the Buddhist Way. Today, meditation grows increasingly popular as the proven benefits to both mental and physical well being become more widely known. When stress is shown to be such a major cause of human suffering, the quieting practice of meditation becomes ever more valued. Today's world is too small and vulnerable to live angry and alone, thus the need for tolerance, love and compassion is so very important. These qualities of mind, essential for happiness are formally developed in Buddhist meditation and then diligently put into practice in everyday life. Forgiveness and gentle tolerance, harmlessness and peaceful compassion are well known trademarks of Buddhism, they are given freely and broadly to all kinds of beings, including animals of course, and also, most importantly, to oneself. There is no place for dwelling in guilt or self-hatred in Buddhism, not even a place for feeling guilty about feeling guilty! Teachings and practices such as these are what bring about qualities of gentle kindness and unshakeable serenity, identified with the Buddhist religion for 25 centuries and sorely needed in today's world. In all its long history, no war has ever been fought in the name of Buddhism. It is this peace and this tolerance, growing out of a profound yet reasonable philosophy, which makes Buddhism so vitally relevant to today's world. Are rebirth and karma for real? Is rebirth for real - either as a human or in one of the other realms? This is the question most Westerners ask as soon as they become interested in Buddhism. Karma (Pali: Kamma) - the law of cause and effect - operates across multiple lifetimes, but where's the proof that there is any life other than the current one? It's a complex subject and each tradition has its own explanation. It isn't uncommon for different teachers in the same tradition to have a different take on rebirth. One thing's for sure, there is no scientific proof of rebirth (yet). There are rational explanations, but they all rest on unprovable assumptions. One way to approach the question of rebirth is suggested by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, who says, "You don't have to believe in rebirth, you just have to take it as a working hypothesis." Other teachers, such as Ajahn Summedho, have a similar view, that since we can never know what will happen after death, it makes sense to practise Dharma (Pali: Dhamma) and live this life in the best way possible. Some well-known monks, Ajahn Brahm and P.A. Payutto among them, say that when meditators reach the third or fourth jhana (level of absorbtion) they are able to "read their past lives" as the Buddha did and experience the truth of rebirth. But this ability is by no means universal, even among meditation masters. Another explanation championed by Buddhadasa, Thailand's most revered monk, is that rebirth in a series of physical bodies is "conventional talk" to make the subject understandable for the masses, but in "Dharma talk" what the Buddha really meant was that each life was the arising of the ego in the mind. So we experience "death" and "rebirth" (of the ego) many times each day. Similarly, the six realms of existence all correspond to states of mind. In the same way, the cause and effect of karma can be observed in our own mental states - when we do good deeds it results in a wholesome mental state, when we do bad deeds, we experience unwholesome mental states. This rational explanation of rebirth and karma doesn't necessarily exclude the traditional view. It augments it. What works for me is to take both of them as working hypotheses and practise accordingly. Recalling the Buddha's story about the man shot with a poisoned arrow, if we need to have every detail of the teaching proved to us at the outset, we'll be dead before we start practising. What is our purpose in life? The traditional answer to this is that our purpose is to attain nirvana and stop the endless cycle of rebirths and suffering. But the idea of a general purpose for mankind suggests that someone or something created that purpose, which in turn suggests an omnipotent deity. The way I think of it is that we have no pre-ordained purpose. We evolved, and here we are. Because we also evolved language and conceptual thinking, we got stuck with this concept of a self, an ego that makes us feel separate from everything else. The ego needs constant reassurance of its importance, which is why we cling to our views and defend them fanatically, and why we are constantly criticizing others. Our ego rules our lives. It is terrified of being snuffed out. We handle this in different ways. Some of us have lots of kids so we can feel that a part of us lives on forever through our descendants. Some of us perform heroic deeds so that our names will live on in history forever. Some of us get onto Ripley's Believe It Or Not with the world's longest moustache or beating the world record for smashing melons with our head, or some such nonsense, so that we'll achieve digital immortality. Some of us cling to the idea that a god will give us eternal life in some form after death. For those of us who don't find this pseudo-immortality or unguaranteed immortality satisfying, there's a need to create our own purpose in life. This is where Buddhism fits the bill nicely. Instead of being ruled by the ego and its fears, get rid of it! Being rid of the ego and the suffering it brings is what Ajahn Jagaro called "True Freedom" - a very appealing idea for all of us. If we don't achieve true freedom in this life, we should get another chance in a future life. But simply diminishing the ego and increasing freedom in this life seems like a worthwhile purpose to me. What's the difference between Theravada and Mahayana? To preserve the monastic order, the Buddha set down 227 rules for a bhikkhu (monk) to observe and 311 for a bhikkhuni (nun). Before his death (known as parinirvana) he said that some minor rules could be changed. Within a short time of his passing away there was disagreement over what could be changed and different sects emerged. The more reformist sects later called themselves Mahayana (greater vehicle) and referred to the conservative sects as Hinayana (lesser vehicle). The only conservative sect remaining today is Theravada, which is prevalent in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand. Theravada recognises the Pali Canon as its scriptures and a variety of ancient Theravadin commentaries. Whereas Theravada spread to the south and east, Mahayana moved to the northwest through what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan and then across Central Asia to China, Tibet, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. For historical reasons, the language of Mahayana scriptures was Sanskrit and that of Theravada was Pali. Hence the difference in spelling of some common Buddhist terms: Nirvana/Nibbana, Sutra/Sutta, Karma/Kamma, Dharma/Damma, etc. Westerners are more familiar with Mahayana Sanskrit terms. Mahayana also has its own scriptures in addition to the Pali Canon, the most important of which is the Lotus Sutra. These sutras are purported to be the Buddha's secret "higher" teachings, which were handed down only to those who were ready for them - an idea emphasised at the beginning of the Lotus Sutra. Apart from a modified monastic code which made monasticism possible in harsh environments such as Tibet, Mahayana emphasises the Bodhisattva Ideal, where a man vows not to achieve final enlightenment until all sentient beings have been saved. So anyone helping others to achieve enlightenment can be considered a bodhisattva. In Theravada, the term bodhisattva usually refers only to the historical Buddha in his previous lives. Historically, some Mahayanists consider Theravadins to be selfish for seeking enlightenment only for themselves, while some Theravadins consider Mahayanists to have deviated from what the Buddha taught. The various sutras and sects of Mahayana reflect different ways of reaching enlightenment appropriate for different people with different levels of ability. Because of this, a number of "mythical" buddhas and bodhisattvas are revered and used as objects of meditation. Theravadins revere only the historical Buddha and only his image is seen in temples. Mahayana tends to emphasise the concept of sunyata (void-ness) in its teachings and tends to have a more specific idea of what passes from rebirth to rebirth (consciousness, comprising awareness and memory). Personally, I found that the more I read about Mahayana and the Tibetan tradition known as Vajrayana, the more I accepted that all sects are going in the same direction and there is no point in considering any one of them better than another. Which tradition should I choose? I suggest reading about Theravada first and then investigating the other traditions to see which suits you best. Your decision may also depend on your Buddhist friends and what is available where you live. As far as I know, the main traditions known in the West are Theravada, Tibetan, Zen, Pure Land and Nichiren. One myth that seems to have grown up over the years is that with Mahayana one can reach enlightenment in one lifetime whereas with Theravada it takes aeons. This notion seems to have been pushed by the Chinese Zen patriarchs, in particular Huang Po, as illustrated in The Zen Teaching of Huang Po. In modern times the idea has been spread by influential author-scholar John Blofeld, who translated Huang Po's works into English and wrote several excellent books on Buddhism. But it all seems pretty ridiculous because how could anyone know how many lives ago any particular person started consciously working towards enlightenment? Blofeld followed Zen and then Tibetan Buddhist Tantrism, describing both as the "Short Path." However, it isn't difficult to see that any tradition that emphasises meditation - as the Buddha did - will be a short path. In the past century, the Thai Forest Tradition is a good example of a Theravadin tradition that produced a number of enlightened masters. According to Blofeld, Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism in particular offer ways of practice to suit people at every level. After all, not everyone has an aptitude for meditation. A lot of people prefer something simpler, such as praying, chanting, various forms of devotion and pilgrimages. He describes Zen and Theravada as "formless," meaning the practice is mostly just you and your mind. But in fact there's a lot more to both than just meditation. Tibetan Buddhism seems to attract Westerners because there are now a lot of Tibetan lamas and monasteries in the West, because of the charisma of the Dalai Lama, because it can be a "Short Path," because of its reputation for developing psychic powers and because of its many varied methods of practice. However, Tibetan Buddhism has absorbed much of the ancient, shamanistic Bon religion of Tibet, so it's wise to read up on Tibet thoroughly before committing to it. Zen attracts Westerners because it's something of a "back to basics" tradition with an emphasis on meditation and very little ritual. Sakyamuni, the historical Buddha, is revered rather than the other mythical buddhas and bodhisattvas of the Mahayana sutras. Although it originated in China, the type of Zen practised in the West is mostly Japanese. Theravada attracts Western practicioners because it is seen as the oldest and purest form of Buddhism, one that reveres only Sakyamuni and in theory concentrates on meditation. The Thai Forest Tradition which developed in the late 1800s was an effort to practise exactly as the Buddha did, wandering in the jungle and meditating in caves. Although the jungle is largely gone now, a number of Westerners joined Ajahn Chah's international monastery in the 1970s and later spread the practice in other countries: Ajahn Jagaro and Ajahn Brahm in Australia, Thanissaro Bhikkhu in the USA and Ajahn Sumedho in the UK. For a brief look at the origins of this tradition, see Thanissaro Bhikkhu's Customs of the Noble Ones. For a more detailed treatment, read Forest Recollections. Pure Land was once widespread in China and is still practised among Chinese around the world. A refined form of Pure Land (Jodo and Shin Jodo) developed in Japan and has spread to the West. Pure Land involves purifying the mind by chanting the name of the Amitabha (Amida) Buddha to gain help in reaching a realm after death from where it is easy to reach enlightenment. On a deeper level, Pure Land equals pure mind and Amitabha represents our own qualities rather than an external saviour. Pure Land is sometimes combined with Zen practice. Nichiren is a homegrown Japanese tradition advocating chanting of a phrase hailing the Lotus Sutra. An offshoot of Nichiren is the lay organisation, Sokka Gakai International. There are a few Buddhist sects and organisations that are controversial in some way, usually because of their founder/leader or his particular beliefs. Before getting involved with Sokka Gakai (SGI), the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO), Shugden or Diamond Way (Karma Kagyu), you might want to google for information about their background. How do I become a Buddhist? Although there is a ceremony of taking the Three Refuges (the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha), there isn't any "conversion" involved and you aren't required to renounce any other religion or beliefs. In fact, it seems to be more of a social statement to show others that you have become a Buddhist. In my opinion, once you accept the Buddha's teachings as a way of life and try to follow the Five Precepts for lay people, you're a Buddhist. For me, this involved a lot of reading Dharma and listening to Dharma talks on the Internet. Rather than read the scriptures (which are often difficult), I chose books by monks and nuns who already had a deep knowledge of Dharma through study and practice, and who had a talent for explaining it. I looked at how Buddhism developed over the millennia and decided to start off with Theravada, which is the original form of Buddhism based on the Pali Canon. Later, I investigated the various Mahayana traditions too. It was obvious to me that reducing the power of the ego to control our lives was a foundation of Buddhism. For my practice, I concentrated on Right Speech (a component of the Noble Eightfold Path) because I thought it would give the fastest results. I expected if I started being nice to people, eventually they'd be nicer to me. That happened, but much more than that. I found myself examining my intentions every time I felt like defending my views, arguing with someone, contradicting them, criticizing them, comparing myself with them or judging them in any way at all. Pretty soon it was obvious that much of what I said or did was designed to boost my sense of self-worth and that "true freedom" was to escape this tyranny of the ego. Later I started meditating, since this is the only way to experience the truth of the teaching rather than just understanding them intellectually. Even though the majority of people born into Buddhism may not meditate, it's essential for the serious Buddhist. Some Westerners have a problem with whether they are or aren't a Buddhist, usually because they still have some belief in god or because they haven't come to believe in rebirth. The following talk by Ajahn Jagaro, a Western monk of the Thai Forest Tradition, will be helpful for anyone asking himself, "Am I a Buddhist?" ________________________________________ Am I a Buddhist? by Ajahn Jagaro Teaching people who have only recently encountered Buddhism I am often asked the question "How do you become a Buddhist?" or "How do you know when you are a Buddhist?" This type of enquiry is indeed healthy and to be encouraged not only amongst those new to Buddhism but also for people born and raised as Buddhists. So go ahead and ask yourself: "Am I a Buddhist?" I expect that there will be many who will answer "Yes" and those who say "No", but I wonder how many will be thinking "Oh ... Ahm,.. I don't know." So let us contemplate this business of being a Buddhist a bit more. To begin our enquiry it may be worthwhile to know what the Buddha said on the matter. The following episode is taken from the Buddhist scriptures (Anguttara Nikaya, Vol IV): "Once, the Lord dwelt amongst the Sakyans in the Banyan Tree Monastery at Kapilavatthu, and while there, Mahanama the Sakyan came to him and asked; "How, Lord, does one become a lay disciple?" "When one has taken refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha, then one is a lay disciple". "How, Lord, is a lay disciple virtuous?" "When a lay disciple abstains from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying and drinking intoxicants, then he is virtuous." Here the Buddha clearly states that by taking refuge in the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha one becomes a disciple or, in modern terminology, a Buddhist. The classical formula of going for refuge, which has been passed down from the time of the Buddha is as follows; Buddham Saranam Gacchami (I go for refuge to the Buddha) Dhammam Saranam Gacchami (I go for refuge to the Dhamma) Sangham Saranam Gacchami (I go for refuge to the Sangha) However one does not become a Buddhist through the mere repetition of these words nor by the performance of any other ceremony ritual or initiation. On the other hand, though one has not performed any ceremony or ritual, one may still be a Buddhist. Put simply, this means that no one can make you a Buddhist nor can anyone stop you from being a Buddhist. It is a volitional choice that one makes when one has sufficient confidence in the Teacher and the Teaching. In the commentaries to the scriptures it explains this as, "It is an act of consciousness devoid of defilements, motivated by confidence in and reverence for the Triple Gem"... Here I would like to relate something of my own experience to help explain this point. When I first came in contact with Buddhism I did not consider myself a religious person. If anything, I thought of myself as an atheist and felt that religion had little relevance to real life. However, I did find the Buddha's Teachings and in particular the practice of meditation very appealing. I had a desire to find out more about it and this lead me into a monastery where I was eventually ordained as a monk. One day a young Thai student, wanting to practise his English, casually asked me "Are you a Buddhist?" But in my mind I wondered whether or not I was a Buddhist. I must confess that it was a strange position to be in - a Buddhist monk who doesn't know whether he is a Buddhist! Yet that situation persisted for over a year before the meaning of both the question and the answer became clear to me. During that year as I continued to study and practise the Dhamma I began to feel very comfortable with the teaching and increasingly confident that this was the way for me. With this came the conscious recognition that I had chosen the Buddha as my Teacher and considered him as the embodiment of the spiritual ideals of peace and liberation. I had also chosen to follow the path contained in his Teaching (the Dhamma) being confident that it would lead to liberation. And while on this path I would seek the guidance and try to emulate the example of all the noble disciples who constitute the Sangha. It was indeed wonderful to discover that I was a Buddhist and not just a Buddhist monk! Now becoming a Buddhist does not mean that one has to either agree with or believe in everything that is taught or practised by all the countless Buddhist sects and groups throughout the world. Nor do we have to believe that it is the only way and that all the other religions are no good. It simply means that having looked at and probed into this teaching of the Buddha, having tried it and having seen that it does work, one has confidence in it and chooses to take refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma, and Sangha. However if you are still unsure as to whether you are a Buddhist or you are not, don't worry about it, just keep on practising. With Metta, Jagaro Bhikkhu. ________________________________________ If you found this page useful or have any comments you can contact me at craigo@tale ofgenji.org. [ links | home | bibliography ]
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Kurt Bellman11 1 6-29-06 10:44 am 6-26-06: The ultimate insult: Paper ballots entered into touch-screensTom Courbat16 1 6-28-06 1:42 pm 6-22-06: A 'Plan B' for voting machines: The National Hand Count Re...Bev Harris7 1 6-24-06 11:43 am 6-15-06: Solutions through citizen oversightBrant Lamb52 1 7-25-06 7:19 pm 6-12-06: Trouble seeks trouble - King County elections chief goes t...Tom Courbat8 1 6-21-06 6:08 pm 6-6-06: Hear the train a'comin' , Comin' round the bendBrant Lamb12 1 6-9-06 10:14 am 6-5-06: Citizens -- Here's how to watchdog electionBev Harris13 1 6-6-06 12:37 pm 5-23-06: Supplmental report adds new concerns to Hursti IIBev Harris51 1 7-1-06 10:49 am 5-19-06: Substitute 'L' for 'D' - Diebold claims Utah tests failed...Kathleen Wynne16 1 6-27-06 6:26 am 5-11-06: Three-level security flaws found in Diebold touch-screensRobert Sawdey182 1 6-7-06 11:52 am 5-10-06: Update on TSx reportCatherine Ansbro5 1 5-11-06 4:47 pm 5-10-06: As the Emery County findings evolve: Diebold's and Georgia...Joseph Hall5 1 5-11-06 2:15 pm 5-9-06: The Ohio Election BackwashAdele Eisner34 1 8-2-06 3:26 pm 5-4-06: Touch-screens fail security tests, Diebold retaliatessuhkara a yahweh`16 1 5-9-06 9:15 pm 5-4-06: Your chance to get evidence: WV, NE, KY, OR, PABev Harris1 1 5-4-06 9:13 am 5-2-06: Is the 2006 election train still on its tracks?John Washburn26 1 5-12-06 3:29 pm 4-24-06: Diebold whistleblower Stephen Heller compared to Daniel El...Russell Novkov2 1 4-24-06 3:06 pm 4-13-06: Last transcript - Calif. 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Senate Elections Committee grills two ...Catherine Ansbro28 1 4-12-06 1:59 pm 3-29-06: FL Attorney General Hits Voting Machine Vendors With Inves...Bev Harris4 1 3-30-06 10:39 am 3-28-06: BBV EXCLUSIVE - Diebold attempts to explain TSx memory def...Bev Harris34 1 4-3-06 9:17 am 03-18-06: BBV EXCLUSIVE - Diebold TSx touch-screen study (Part I)...Joseph Hall50 1 4-7-06 10:29 am 3-17-2006: New Black Box Voting report to be issued on Diebold TSx ...Jody Holder11 1 3-19-06 11:34 pm 3-11-06: The Stephen Heller Legal Defense FundJohn Washburn6 1 3-12-06 8:23 pm 3-8-06: Ion Sancho pits his lawyers against DieboldPat Vesely10 1 3-14-06 2:02 pm 3-3-06: While Florida vindicates Ion Sancho, Jeb Bush threatens Sa...Daniel R Spak29 1 3-19-06 5:45 pm 2-28-06: Take action NOW: Bullies pounding on whistleblowerRobert Sawdey11 1 3-9-06 5:47 pm 2-23-06: Someone accessed 40 Palm Beach County voting machines Nov ...Bev Harris110 1 3-9-06 7:30 am 2-21-06: An open letter to Bruce McPherson and the citizens of the ...Joycelynn Straight22 1 2-27-06 9:01 pm 2-17-06: BREAKING: Calif. Sec. State certifies entire Diebold produ...Bev Harris52 1 4-3-06 10:20 am 2-17-06: Election family tree: Who got us into this and how did the...Catherine Ansbro4 1 3-30-06 10:40 am 2-11-06: Voting machine examiners chickening out on Senate investig...Ron Crane24 1 2-18-06 1:27 pm 2-6-06: Landes takes e-voting to Supreme CourtV. Kurt Bellman24 1 4-19-06 10:33 am 2-6-06: Diebold agrees to waive proprietary claims to GEMS database...Marian Beddill12 1 2-11-06 1:38 pm 2-5-06: What protects your personal information once it enters e-el...Paul Lehto70 1 7-21-06 1:17 pm 2-2-06: Embezzler Jeff Dean remote accessed Calif. counties for 200...Kathleen Wynne4 1 2-2-06 8:38 am 2-1-06: Voting system examiners blocked from telling what they know?Byron Hale21 1 2-6-06 3:16 am 1-31-06: Diebold anticipates $100 to $125 million in 2006 voting sy...Bev Harris1 1 1-31-06 8:56 am 1-26-06: Elections Programmer Jeff Dean worked for same firm as for...Bev Harris25 1 1-27-06 12:45 pm 1-24-06: Public Records Get The Big Chill: Alaska's Voters vs Diebo...Jim March5 1 1-31-06 2:29 pm 1-13-06: ES&S reneges on Leon County deal 2 days before HAVA deadl...Catherine Ansbro33 1 1-17-06 1:20 am 1-9-2006: DuPage County Elections paid $30,000 to Republican politi...Bev Harris12 1 2-3-06 8:20 am 1-5-06: Wisconsin moves toward public source, then guts itJohn Washburn10 1 1-5-06 4:21 pm 1-3-2006: Hold on to your lugnuts, ES&S and Sequoia may risk Hurst...Brant Lamb33 1 1-25-06 4:56 am 12-30-05: Roll up your sleeves, we ain't done yet!BBV Admin1 1 12-30-05 4:26 pm 12-28-2005: Pennsylvania declines some Diebold but reveals an odd biasArnold Peckerman24 1 12-31-05 2:17 pm 12-23-05: ES&S under fire in CaliforniaEdward Robles5 1 12-26-05 5:36 am 12-20-05: California 'Hack' test stalled as Diebold certification d...Brant Lamb116 1 1-25-06 1:27 pm 12-13-05: Devastating hack proven - Leon County dumps DieboldSamuel Scharff97 1 5-29-06 9:25 pm 12-9-05: Diebold hack test -- Sec. State / Black Box lawyer square offJim March6 1 12-12-05 3:01 pm 12-7-05: Diebold stockholder suit - here's some ammoJim March7 1 12-8-05 9:37 am 12-4-05: 'Leave it up to us, we know best' say officialsBBV Admin27 2 12-15-05 4:17 am 11-30-05: Nope, the hack test won't be todayCatherine Ansbro25 1 1-3-06 12:51 am 11-28-05: Latest on California hack situationBruce Sims45 1 11-30-05 4:40 pm 11-24-05: Turkey Day leftovers: No thanks for stuffing elections wi...Edward Robles2 1 11-27-05 7:55 am 11-23-05: Flag on the play - Calif. Sec. State official calls foul ...Catherine Ansbro17 1 11-29-05 10:18 am 11-22-05: California invites Black Box Voting to hack Diebold votin...John Washburn31 1 12-9-05 8:23 am 11-22-2005: Updates on felons - Jeffrey Dean and John ElderBBV Admin7 1 11-22-05 9:37 am 11-21-05: Diebold violates court orderBBV Admin10 1 11-28-05 8:27 am 11-18-05: Fasten your seatbelts - It's time to bring this thing in ...Edward Robles7 1 11-27-05 9:12 am 11-15-05: FEC Investigating rapper P. Diddy (but not Blackwell or M...Edward Robles5 1 11-27-05 9:16 am 11-13-05: Detroit, Michigan elections are now a significant concernBBV Admin11 1 11-23-05 5:16 am 11-9-05: Los Angeles County has the dog & pony show downEdward Robles2 1 11-27-05 9:33 am 11-8-05: Share your observations on voting today hereKathleen Wynne10 1 11-10-05 9:15 am 11-6-05: Two state elections heads resign in FloridaBBV Admin6 1 11-6-05 5:11 am 11-4-05: Mail-in votes at higher risk with Diebold systemsBBV Admin1 1 11-4-05 8:00 am 11-3-05: The first public examination under the 15004 lawJohn Washburn5 1 11-6-05 6:41 am 10-28-05: Blackwell Blunders on Voting Machine ExaminationJohn Washburn14 1 10-31-05 11:23 am 10-26-05: The 'Perimeter Defense' - Follies and FailuresBBV Admin7 1 10-31-05 3:57 pm 10-21-05: GAO & NIST - Voting machine security finally goes mainstr...From the Mailbag10 1 10-29-05 11:39 am 10-9-05: VotoScope audit tool will catch Hart Intercivic bugBev Harris22 1 10-12-05 1:06 pm 10-8-05: Investors considering Diebold class action suitBev Harris1 1 10-8-05 3:08 pm 10-5-05: Diebold Lies Move Up the LadderBev Harris5 1 10-8-05 3:21 pm 9-19-2005: Carter-Baker Panel Report: Proposed Reforms Miss the BoatBrad Friedman52 1 10-3-05 12:02 pm 9-10-2005: Here's your chance to 'Look inside the Black Box':...alex baxter21 1 11-1-05 4:23 am 9-7-2005: Digital Image ballot scanners -- good or bad?Brant Lamb19 1 10-5-05 4:41 am 8-25-2005: Voting Rights Act expiration 2007Admin3 1 8-25-05 9:56 am 8-15-05: Election Reform -- Impending ShuffleCatherine_a107 1 8-25-05 1:51 pm 8-13-2005: If this doesn't get your blood boiling...Ubetchaiam9 1 8-15-05 11:24 am 8-10-2005: Mississippi Paper Trail ImminentCatherine Ansbro18 1 12-14-05 2:47 am 8-9-2005: Exactly what we don't want: Our election on Diebold's ser...John Howard13 1 10-5-05 8:20 pm 8-8-2005: Arcata, (CA) seeks to wrest election control from corpora...jimmarch6 1 8-12-05 12:33 am 8-5-05: 'Think Outside the Black Box' - ONLINE THINK TANK Admin5 1 8-17-05 7:46 am 8-3-05: San Diego backs down on charges against BBV director Jim MarchUbetchaiam32 1 8-22-05 12:01 pm 7-29-2005: Mississippi, listen up: California just rejected the TSxadmin17 1 8-13-05 8:15 pm 7-28-05: In his own words: Jim March on taking back his civil rightsmymarkx11 1 7-29-05 11:46 am 7-26-2005: BBV Board Member Arrested in San Diego for Viewing Vote-...cleanbean63 1 7-29-05 4:17 pm 7-25-2005: Wondering about mail-in voting? Diebold's new VoteRemote...Catherine Ansbro28 1 3-30-06 12:43 pm 7-21-2005: ES&S, Diebold lobbyists had ties to bribery investigatio...mary_ann9 1 7-31-05 12:00 am 7-20-2005: Internal documents reveal more Diebold ethics problemsadmin4 1 7-20-05 7:24 am 7-18-2005: Are The Lights Going Out In Georgia?admin5 1 7-22-05 3:14 pm 7-17-2005: Gallina (Diebold) reportedly paid Blackwell, GOP cronies...admin1 1 7-17-05 12:07 pm 7-11-2005: Case Against Diebold and Florida Division of Electionskathleen_wynne3 1 7-13-05 9:32 am 7-4-2005: The Black Box ReportJohn Dean36 1 5-8-06 6:05 pm 7-3-2005: Diebold accounting mistake -- SEC stuff may be a biggieadmin11 1 7-4-05 10:58 pm 7-1-2005: July 4 Security Alert for Diebold Optical Scanscatherine_a17 1 7-5-05 1:29 am 6-24-2005: Black Box Voting Litigation Fund LaunchedBev Harris2 1 2-3-06 8:22 am 6-17-05: Report on Calif. meeting -- Decertify Diebold?ubetchaiam11 1 7-21-05 2:37 pm 6-8-2005: Palm Beach County fails auditlinda_franz7 1 6-15-05 8:29 am 5-27-05: Optical scan system hacked (3 ways) - BBV ExclusiveBrant Lamb73 1 8-9-06 11:06 am 5-9-05: Consumer Report Series -- Following the Money Trail – Part Iadmin1 1 5-9-05 3:18 pm 5-6-04: $45m (Diebold?) contract flying under radar in Cook County ...admin2 1 5-6-05 2:53 pm 5-11-05: CANCELLED - Call to action May 19, Sacramentoadmin1 1 5-6-05 11:05 am 5-04-05 – Easier Hacking Access Sneaks in w. ADA Compliance Measuresadmin1 1 5-4-05 9:25 pm 4-24-05: LA's InkaVote system tied to Malaysian gambling outfitadmin1 1 4-24-05 12:43 pm 4-20-2005: Paper trail advocates - The devil in the detailsadmin1 1 4-20-05 11:54 am 4-18-2005: Diebold Lobbyist Documents Reveal Problemsadmin1 1 4-18-05 9:54 am 3-8-2005: Hack of Real-Life Voting System Demonstratedadmin1 1 3-9-05 12:51 pm 2-22-2005: Activating the Eagles -- Events this weekend in Californiaadmin1 1 2-22-05 5:08 pm 2-21-2005: Snohomish County (WA) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 4:51 pm 2-21-2005: Orange County (FL) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 12:57 pm 2-21-2005: Broward County (FL) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 12:14 pm 2-21-2005: Palm Beach County (FL) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 11:04 am 2-21-2005: Volusia County (FL) Updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 7:02 am 2-1-2005: Black Box Voting donates $2000 to Ohio lawyersadmin1 1 2-1-05 2:51 pm 1-28-05: Eagles rolling up sleeves in Ohio, Florida, Californiaadmin1 1 1-28-05 6:30 am 1-20-05: BULLETIN: California Panel OKs Voter Privacy Removaladmin1 1 1-20-05 6:05 pm 1-18-05: Consumer Protection lawsuit activated against Dieboldadmin1 1 1-19-05 4:43 am 1-17-05: Black Box Voting Document Archiveadmin1 1 1-17-05 1:42 pm 1-10-05: Exposing the Crypto Solutionadmin1 1 1-11-05 6:20 am 1-6-05: Constitutional Equal Protection Amendment for Voters?admin1 1 1-11-05 6:15 am 1-5-05: Election Misconduct as a Public Records Crisisadmin1 1 1-11-05 6:10 am 1-5-05: Update from Washington D.C.admin1 1 1-11-05 6:01 am 12-30-2004: Volunteer Actions -- Activating the Eaglesadmin1 1 1-11-05 5:50 am 12-29-04: Update on 'Help America Audit'admin1 1 1-11-05 5:44 am 12-28-04: Update for donors, and a look to 2005admin1 1 1-11-05 5:35 am 11-18-2004: Volunteer actions -- How to 'Be the Media'admin1 1 1-11-05 5:56 am Start New Thread Mainstream News Reports Black Box Voting » Latest News » Mainstream News Reports « Previous Next » Thread Last Poster Posts Pages Last Post Dean Logan Says Unaffiliated WriteIns will be Checkedchristine c reid14 1 2-15-08 10:34 am New York Times re Holt BillV. Kurt Bellman26 1 2-8-08 1:57 pm AP Incorrectly calls Missouri for ClintonBill Bowen1 1 2-7-08 8:04 am San Fran CA-KSFO-AM reports Repub registration problemsNancy Tobi9 1 2-7-08 5:49 am Massachusetts results via your friends at LHSMike LaBonte10 1 2-7-08 5:24 am NJ Voting delay included Gov. CorzineMichael W Mather2 1 2-6-08 1:17 pm (CA) 2/08 - Voting machine probs delay Sacramento countPerry Duke9 1 2-5-08 6:34 pm (FL) 1/08 - More Florida voting machine problemsHal Guentert8 1 2-2-08 7:19 pm (FL) 1/08 - Final Florida results inkaren reineke11 1 2-1-08 4:25 pm (CO) 1/15 Democrats Ask Coffman to ResignFran Fleming1 1 2-1-08 9:41 am (FL) 1/08 - Problems already with voting machinesBev Harris 1 1 1-29-08 10:08 am (CO) Paper ballots win over RitterCatherine Ansbro3 1 1-29-08 2:16 am (MI) 12/07 - Proposition for new way to do primaries NEWS: Reform pres. candidate selection processCatherine Ansbro11 1 1-29-08 2:14 am Americans Abroad Can Now Vote Onlinesam lark7 1 1-26-08 3:49 pm (SC) 1/19/08 - Problems at polling locationsts taylor4 1 1-24-08 9:16 pm Feedback appreciated as this unfolds...Bruce Sims2 1 1-24-08 1:52 pm (Ohio) ACLU files suit to block paper ballots New paper ballots ca...Roger Wood20 2 1-20-08 9:43 pm REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER: Election Fraud RoundtableV. Kurt Bellman10 1 1-18-08 7:05 am (CO) Legislators lose their confidence in CoffmanCatherine Ansbro13 1 1-17-08 4:01 pm Olbermann Report !! On Voting Sue West6 1 1-17-08 3:53 pm GOP Figure Contracted to Deliver E-Voting Machines in MarylandAlex Laflamme1 1 1-17-08 9:43 am (NH) Experts skeptical of N.H. ballot-count conspiracy theoryBill Bowen60 1 1-16-08 10:37 pm Making votes countFran Fleming2 1 1-16-08 12:00 pm Ron Paul says in regard to New Hampshire voteDavid Evans1 1 1-13-08 8:32 am Diebold Changing its Buisness name Catherine Ansbro2 1 1-12-08 5:20 am (NH) 1/08 - Man plans recount of Republican vote in N.H. primary...Russell Novkov7 1 1-11-08 11:03 pm (TX) 10/07 - Another corrupt official, election tampering Refugio County - "Trust Me" failureCatherine Ansbro4 1 1-11-08 6:47 pm (FL) 9/07 - Volusia County again -- lots of defective memory cards... Volusia County - Voting system: Incident reportsWilliam Reese2 1 1-8-08 9:19 pm (FL) 10/07 - New machines, still not enough safeguards State of Florida - Voting systems: Transition to optical scan, issuesDon Powers2 1 1-8-08 12:00 am PC Magazine Article 09/12/07Don Powers2 1 1-7-08 10:45 pm (US) Can You Count On These Machines?Bev Harris 21 1 1-7-08 6:18 pm (US) Problems At Poll Permeate U.S. Political ProcessV. Kurt Bellman76 1 1-5-08 4:57 pm Legal Voters Thrown Off RollsV. Kurt Bellman7 1 1-3-08 11:15 am CNN: On the eve of Iowa caucus, some states give e-voting an 'F'...Russell Novkov2 1 1-2-08 3:42 pm (TX) 11/07 - Wharton County GOP will use paper ballots in primary... NEWS: Follow up on vote-flipping incidentLore2 1 1-1-08 3:35 pm (KY) 10/7 - Candidate for elections chief pleads guilty to forgery... Boone County - "Trust Me" FailureKathleen Wynne49 1 12-26-07 2:49 pm (US) 12/07 - FEC doors shut, 'No one left to answer phones'...Alan Brau4 1 12-25-07 8:29 pm (CO) 12/07 - Boulder: Stray marks caused decertificationBev Harris 1 1 12-23-07 9:49 pm (CO) 12/07 - Mesa: Commission defiant on vote machines NEWS: Resisting Colorado decertificationFran Fleming5 1 12-22-07 1:34 pm (AK) 12/07 - Impossible to tell whether 2004 count correct NEWS - Follow up on AZ Dem Party litigationBev Harris 1 1 12-21-07 7:05 am (CO) 12/07 - Denver: Voting gear out for count NEWS: Colo. decertification of Sequoia Julio Edwards1 1 12-18-07 6:41 am (US) 12/07 - Congressional watch tool for citizens PRESS RELEASE: New Freedom of Information toolBev Harris 1 1 12-11-07 7:20 am (PA) 11/07 - Philadelphia: Voter Fraud Allegations Again NEWS: Absentee ballot fraud allegationsV. Kurt Bellman21 1 12-7-07 2:02 pm (NJ) 12/07 - 'We are Neanderthals' - paper trail delayed again... NEWS: New Jersey paper trail statusBobby Arnold2 1 12-6-07 3:20 am (OH) 11/07 - Franklin County: Former elections official charged... NEWS: Election official corruptionBev Harris 2 1 12-2-07 7:50 am (OH) 11/07 - Township results flipped because of error (Lawrence Co... Lawrence County: Voting systems - Incident ReportBev Harris 4 1 11-23-07 2:00 pm (CT) 11/07 - Diebold/Premier machine miscount changes winner Greenwich: Voting systems - Incident reportsCatherine Ansbro4 1 11-23-07 1:47 pm (MS) 11/07 - New election ordered for Louise Linzy race Tunica County: Election incidentsBev Harris 1 1 11-22-07 9:05 pm (NH) 11/07 - It's official: Jan. 8 primary date State of New Hampshire: PrimariesBev Harris 1 1 11-22-07 8:28 pm (CA) 11/07 - Sec. State Bowen sues ES&S for $15 million State of California: Voting systems, ES&SBev Harris 3 1 11-21-07 9:09 pm (MI) 11/07 - It's back on: Mich. primary will proceed... State of Michigan: Primaries, Freedom of InformationBev Harris 1 1 11-21-07 10:38 am (MI) 11/07 - Michigan primary may not happen State of Michigan: Primaries, Freedom of Information Bev Harris 1 1 11-20-07 7:22 pm (NH) 11/07 - Pres primary date STILL not certain State of New Hampshire: PrimariesBev Harris 1 1 11-20-07 7:06 pm (OH) 11/07 - Provisionals may alter outcome Clermont County: Provisional ballotsBev Harris 1 1 11-19-07 5:54 pm (TX) 11/07 - Alteration of live election data in Harris County... Harris County: Voting systems, "Trust Me"Russell Novkov12 1 11-15-07 9:18 pm (US) 11/07 - Sequoia voting systems under new ownership US - VendorsBev Harris 1 1 11-9-07 6:39 am (OH) 11/07 - Polls open later in ES&S location Putnam County - Voting Machines: Incident ReportsPatricia Berg1 1 11-7-07 4:34 am (FL) 10/07 - Appeals court rules The People "moot" Sarasota County - LitigationBev Harris 1 1 11-2-07 8:02 am (CT) 10/07 - Candidate's company will transport voting machines... New Britain - Chain of CustodyBev Harris 1 1 10-29-07 11:22 am (IN) 10/07 - Polling locations reduced to four "vote centers"... Tippecanoe County - Access to PollsBev Harris 1 1 10-29-07 8:12 am (FL) 10/07 - Wrong Ballots Sent To Miami Absentee Voters Miami-Dade County - Absentee / Mail-in Incident ReportBrant Lamb13 1 10-22-07 11:34 am (PA) 10/07 - County replacing WinVote Lackawanna County - Voting systems: Procurement Alan Brau43 1 10-18-07 7:56 pm (US) 9/07 - E-vote industry massaging itself in the media Voting systems: Security / Chain of CustodyBev Harris 52 1 10-14-07 11:07 am (OH) 10/07 - A funeral for a presidential election State of Ohio - Compliance, enforcement issuesAlan Brau3 1 10-11-07 4:32 pm (FL) 10/07 - Peculiar excuses block accountability for primary Martin County - Compliance issue: Resisting paper trailBev Harris 1 1 10-11-07 7:12 am (TX) 9/07 - Hilarious but improper: video of lawmakers cheat-voting... State of Texas - Noncompliance, enforcement issues with legislator voting rulesBrant Lamb11 1 10-3-07 5:06 am (FL) 10/07 - FL-13 testing continues... Sarasota County - Voting system: Review & testing due to incident reportsRussell Novkov2 1 10-2-07 7:57 pm (IN) 10/07 - Belly-up vendor, in come different machines Randolph County - Voting systems: ProcurementBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:57 pm (FL) 10/07 - FL-13 report imminent Sarasota County - Voting system: Review & testing due to incident reportsBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:46 pm (US) 9/07 - If MS Excel bug = math errors, trust e-voting? US - Computer program: Incident reportBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:38 pm (NC) 9/07 - The registrar's secret lair Montgomery County - Chain of custodyBev Harris 1 1 10-1-07 4:12 pm (NJ) 9/07 - Judge stalls on paper trail Mercer County - Compliance issue: Resisting paper trailBev Harris 1 1 10-1-07 3:46 pm (US) 9/07 - Less than 1/2 of military overseas votes counted US - Absentee / mail-in voting: Incidents, access problemsBev Harris 6 1 9-30-07 3:17 pm (GA) 9/07 - What's the punishment for throwing out 93,000 voter reg... Fulton County - Chain of custody / Privacy protection issuesBev Harris 1 1 9-28-07 9:12 am (US) 9/07 - Gird for massive new voting machine purchases: New stan... US - Voting systems: Standards, certification, procurementBrant Lamb16 1 9-27-07 5:02 am (PA) 9/07 County Commissioners' Assocation Opposes HR811 State of Pennsylvania - LegislationSamuel Scharff32 1 9-24-07 11:29 pm (CT) 9/07 - Voting rights activists express disappointment at CT s... State of Connecticut - Voting systems: Security Catherine Ansbro2 1 9-22-07 6:36 pm (NV) 9/07 - County to "prove Sequioa machines are secure"... Washoe County - Voting systems: SecurityBev Harris 1 1 9-22-07 9:43 am (IL) 9/07 - Indictment: Teamster Union vote rigging Teamster's Union [Chicago] - "Trust Me" failureBev Harris 1 1 9-8-07 4:48 pm (US) 2007 National news archive (see state foru... 130 24 10-11-07 12:25 pm (US) 2006 National news archive (see state foru... 482 60 10-11-07 12:25 pm (US) 2005 National news archive (see state foru... 310 152 10-11-07 12:24 pm (US) 2004 National news archive (see state forums for state news)... 77 42 10-11-07 12:24 pm Start New Thread 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review Reviews Voted Most Helpful Votes are counted and displayed within 24 hours HM 1355196 37% Similar To You HM 1355196's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This is an excellent documentary that I think every American should see before they vote again. This is not a movie about Bush vs. Kerry or Republicans vs. Democrats. Its about our current voting system and exposing a multitude of problems with that system as demonstrated in the 2004 election. We are told "EVERY VOTE COUNTS" and this documentary exposes the corruption, mistruths, and shameful negligence and mishandling of these "VOTES" in a way that cannot be denied nor ignored - unless you don't watch it for yourself. 73 out of 78 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful TerBo 40% Similar To You TerBo's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This is a must-see documentary, especially for those still doubtful about whether elections in this country can be tampered with. The answer is yes, yes, yes!!! Kudos to Bev Harris who has dedicated years to exposing the corruption surrounding electronic voting. Get this. After Hacking Democracy's premiere on HBO, Harris received death threats. That's how risky and powerful her work is. 67 out of 77 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Shiftdnb 47% Similar To You Shiftdnb's other reviews > 4.0 Stars This is an amazing documentary showing that there are problems with the way we vote in America. When a normal everyday citizen gets up and challenges the system, you see how the system fights back. This woman doesn't give up like most of us would and shows us and one election official in Florida that the way our voting system was run and still is, has errors. 29 out of 36 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Most Recent Reviews SG 178412 23% Similar To You SG 178412's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Anyone who cares at all about the future of democracy in America (R or D or whatever else party affiliation you choose) NEEDS to see this movie. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful grw 970297 20% Similar To You grw 970297's other reviews > 5.0 Stars If our so-called government doesn't fix the problems exposed in this excellent documentary, our democracy no longer will exist. Abolish electronic voting machines!! I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Professional Bum 63% Similar To You Professional ...'s other reviews > 5.0 Stars If you are an American & have the ability to vote, please do yourself a favor and put this in your queue immediately(especially since this is an election year). This wonderful documentary proves my point that we have the best democracy that money can buy, along with our judicial system. This film is more frightening than any horror film I've seen, because THIS IS REAL! And this is movie biased? Not at all. It's an absolute eye opener that shows that your vote really doesn't count; and make sure you watch the deleted scenes(another 33 minutes of fantastic footage). 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews hawk5391 58% Similar To You hawk5391's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Even though I also watched the original slasher classic Black Christmas, this was the scariest movie I saw over the Christmas break. Although the filmmakers obviously have every reason to sensationalize potential problems with electronic voting systems ("good news is no news," right?), the implications here are frightening. Not only did Bev Harris (founder of a non-partisan watchdog group) find voting machine code unprotected on the internet, she was able to successfully hack it and prove that results could be manipulated (you can watch this being done in a matter of seconds in this film). The lack of oversight of the companies who control the majority of electronic voting is astounding, almost as bad as the sloppy manner in which our government oversees the elections themselves. 10 out of 10 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Cassun 53% Similar To You Cassun's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Probably the scariest movie I've watched in a long time. The production value isn't good, but its worth sitting through to find out just how easy it would be for just one person with an agenda to manipulate the outcome of an election. 9 out of 12 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful LR 572736 43% Similar To You LR 572736's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Politics in America is scarey enough, but when you see what is going on with our elections system, you will just go through the roof. We have hoped through the last few centuries that a government of the people, by the people and for the people would not parish from the face of the earth, and that America would be its shining example. After viewing this flick, you will realize just how tarnished our example has become. We have realized in the past decades, that money rules, and it just feels like our votes don't count, only the money that backs our politicians. Only the corporations and special interests have access to the politicians these days, not the people that vote. This picture goes a long way to explaining how that happens. After realizing the truths in this documentary, I feel even more helpless and useless to change a corrupt government by my vote. Did my vote get counted? How would I even know? The facts put forth in this program are just about incredible, but you come away realizing their powerful credibility. I wondered why their hasn't been criminal prosecution of the election fraud that is running rampant in our country today? Where are prosecuters? Why aren't elections officials who ignore our right to have our votes counted, recounter and certified being placed on trial for crimes against the electorate? You owe it to yourself and your country to see this documentary long before the next election. Don't miss this one! 8 out of 9 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful CP 1799900 36% Similar To You CP 1799900's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Wow. I just finished watching this documentary, and I can't believe what I heard and saw. This is not another Michael Moore speculative film that makes assumptions with no factual evidence. This is incredible. Everyone should see this film. It is truly an amazing look inside of our election system. 8 out of 9 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review SN 25968 62% Similar To You SN 25968's other reviews > 5.0 Stars We must all see this movie. It's not JUST about elections. It's about the undermining of our society, the breakdown. My opinion is that we should get away from secret voting and out into the public. Democracy is where WE THE PEOPLE elect our officials. You must see this to know why I write this. 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful JR 1824621 61% Similar To You JR 1824621's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This is what makes America great: a woman, with a full life, puts it all behind her because she has come across the ultimate injustice and knows that she must right it. This is the story of the creation of the group and webpage BlackBoxVoting.com Having found the Diebold's source code, a code that not even the President of the United States can see, Bev Harris takes the code to an expert. What is revealed causes Harris to criss cross America, to prove the fact that Diebold had literally hijacked democracy. Although it's possible, it's difficult to believe that anyone can think that the 2004 Presidential Election wasn't rigged after viewing this film. A 'must see' for every American. 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful PW 51% Similar To You PW's other reviews > 5.0 Stars One of the scariest movies I've ever seen... because it's true. If you liked 'All the presidents men' or 'The Insider' You'll like this movie. Actually come to think of it, what this story needs is a treatment like the above mentioned movies so the message could have a broader appeal beyond this documentary. 5 out of 6 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful FV 1232392 44% Similar To You FV 1232392's other reviews > 4.0 Stars Highly recommedable as the documentary reveals what we all have been suspecting and fearing in an objective and somewhat scientific way. It is quite timely, and I think we can all relate to the topic at hand. I was touched by the reaction of some of the people in the movie when they proved how the voting system can be hacked without much effort 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Steve Smith 38% Similar To You Steve Smith's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Unbelievable. That's how I describe this excellent documentary. Every citizen of the USA owes it to themselves to watch this documentary. It is just shocking. It calls into question everything we know about how our votes are recorded in this country. My jaw literally dropped when I saw one part of it. I won't ruin it for those who haven't seen it. You MUST watch this! 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Ben5765 35% Similar To You Ben5765's other reviews > 4.0 Stars This film is all about voting machines and how votes are tabulated. It makes mincemeat of the Diebold Corporation, manufacturer of a large percentage of the electronic voting machines used in the United States. It reveals Diebold officials making lie after lie about the security of their machines. The makers of the film meticulously document how, using Diebold's machines and data cards, someone with just a basic understanding of the technology involved (including, certainly, any Diebold employee) could rig the vote count, on one machine or on thousands of them, with absolutely no record that the rigging was ever done. The film also reveals how Diebold's chief executive officer was (and maybe still is) a large contributor to the Republican Party. He once wrote a letter stating that he would "deliver" Ohio's electoral votes in the 2004 presidential election for George W. Bush. The film later shows how his company managed to persuade Cuyahoga County, Ohio (where Cleveland is) to buy its machines. Maybe there is nothing fishy going on there, but appearances matter! Lest the film be seen as partisan, it features, among others, a Republican office-seeker from Louisiana who, after losing her race, went to view a demonstration of the machines that the voters used. As part of the demonstration she pressed the button next to her name, and the machine registered a vote for her opponent. Hmmm. She was understandably troubled. Moreover, the film points out that in many parts of the country it is in fact the local Republican Party that is wary of electronic voting machines, not the Democrats. Hacking Democracy also reveals problems with punch card voting systems--problems that dwarf the famous "hanging chad" problem of the 2000 presidential vote count in Florida. The film's message is distressing, but it is one all American citizens should hear and see. 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful AdriH 34% Similar To You AdriH's other reviews > 4.0 Stars Yes, the documentary could use a bit of editing, but the points raised are valid enough to keep it interesting. Instead of taking a partisan view on the movie, realize how intensly frightening this movie really is. Should it be just one grandmother's job to inform us how we're being duped? No. It's our responsibility as citizens to stay informed and demand voting accuracy. 5 out of 7 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful DM 1548398 12% Similar To You DM 1548398's other reviews > 4.0 Stars Frightening and timely documentary that exposes the very painful truth about the U.S. electoral system and vote count fraud. A must see if you plan to vote ever! 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful PM 748973 — —% Similar To You PM 748973's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This presentation should be shown to every high school junior and senior. Maybe they will be able to bring about the changes needed to restore our country to what it once was. Our democratic republic is long gone. 6 out of 6 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review Lee Anne and Tim 64% Similar To You Lee Anne and ...'s other reviews > 5.0 Stars Every voter should see this film. It leaves you with your head shaking, wondering how the history of the last 8 years might read if the vote-tampering exposed in Hacking Democracy hadnt been possible. Also a testament to how one regular person can make a difference, this documentary is very well done. Youll hate what you learn. 6 out of 10 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful yla 83539 39% Similar To You yla 83539's other reviews > 5.0 Stars SA 1674508, Yazheirx, JR 65420, RS 305556, their reviews are absolutely the threat that we all have about democracy. It is because their kind of ignorance that this movie is a 5 star and a must for every single human being to watch and learn. There is no excuse for any voting system to be too technical, too complex, too secret that we cannot prove what the votes were years from when the votes were taken. Not even 50 years, not even 100 years, not even 1000 years, not ever. For anyone to suggest that the electronic voting system is not possible to understand and to do a documentary for by a handful of heroic citizens, it is an insult to this country and democracy. Let these be the commandments of election: 1) No voting methods should be more complicated than what pen/pencil can do on a ballot. 2) Vote handling in any election process should be transparent to the public no matter when, why, how, what, who. 3) Only 100% accuracy should be accepted. Anything less then 100% should be recounted no matter how many times, how long it takes, and how much it cost to be 100% accurate. 4) Without 100% accuracy, election cannot be concluded. Another election should be conducted immediately without further delay. 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful ayi 554466 35% Similar To You ayi 554466's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Factual information clearly presented. I fear it is all too true and I fear for the next election. 5 out of 8 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful AL 1659593 33% Similar To You AL 1659593's other reviews > 2.0 Stars For content, I'd give it 3 stars. It was an eye-opening look at the problems at the flaws of the "touch screen" and memory card system. What turned me off was the overboard emotions and cheesy speeches from the women of the watchdog groups. 4 out of 6 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful TD 1852913 31% Similar To You TD 1852913's other reviews > 5.0 Stars I simply cannot believe this is true. I simply cannot believe the voting process is so secretive! I am still in High School and I could probably devise a system more secure than what every American trusts to count their votes! Every American owes it to themselves to watch this incredible docudrama of corporate greed, secrecy, corruption, and lies. Every American. 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful AK 817970 29% Similar To You AK 817970's other reviews > 5.0 Stars I would have to agree with everyone else in stating this a must see film for everyone. I was shocked and surprised at how poorly designed the electronic voting system is. How corrupt the political voting process is. Without this video no one would have seen the voting process. Watch this film you won't regret it. 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful jes 881880 26% Similar To You jes 881880's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Eye opening. My question is, "Why haven't criminal investigations been started?!?" I agree with the majority of the comments saying we should all see this movie; i would add it's imperative we do something with what we know after watching it. Hold our representitives accountable!!! 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful KS 608754 24% Similar To You KS 608754's other reviews > 5.0 Stars If this doesn't make people realize that we need to change how our elections are held, nothing will! Republicans and Democrats should be concerned...ALL AMERICANS should be concerned and angry. If any politician does not want to fix this system, that politician needs to leave their office. 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful PD 253868 22% Similar To You PD 253868's other reviews > 5.0 Stars I believe every citizen of voting age in the United States should view this film because it is very informative on the computerized voting systems across the country. After all, if our votes don't count we have no democracy. Watch this fim and tell your family, friends and co-workers to do the same! 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful xpf 1252893 12% Similar To You xpf 1252893's other reviews > 4.0 Stars The content is compelling and if even half of it is true, our democracy is very troubled. We need to demand truth and accuracy at the polls and we need to take action NOW! 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review DH 1154150 62% Similar To You DH 1154150's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Watch this movie. Tell your friends and family to watch this movie. The subjects are intelligent, articulate, and extremely courageous. This movie shows compelling evidence that makes me want to learn more about how easy it has been to alter the "results" of our government's elections, and ask what we can do to stop the fraud! 4 out of 7 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Yazheirx 57% Similar To You Yazheirx's other reviews > 2.0 Stars Like several other reviewers I wanted to like this movie but the spin and lack of solution suggestions prevented me. I agree with the need for more transparency with voting machines. I think we should have an open source voting program such that interest groups can spend their money to improve them. I still could not get past the spin. The final documentary cardinal sin for me is -
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do you belong to a religion, a cult or a group that threaten to harm you if you leave? tell us about your experience. I was moved by the story of Mason's family and how the head of this group was able to manipulate them into submission to him. do you find similar behavior in the history of your group? -------------------------------------------- Free Manson 'family' members haunted by horror By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch, Ap Special Correspondent Sun Aug 9, 2:20 pm ET LOS ANGELES – Forty years ago, they were kids. Vulnerable, alienated, running away from a world wracked by war and rebellion. They turned to a cult leader for love and wound up tied to a web of unimaginable evil. They were part of Charles Manson's "Family" and now, on the brink of old age, they are the haunted. "I never have a day go by that I don't think about it, especially about the victims," says Barbara Hoyt who was 17 the summer of the Sharon Tate-LaBianca murders. "I've long ago accepted the fact it will never go away." The ones who aren't in prison are scattered across the country. Some live under assumed names to hide their past from friends and business associates. Some have undergone surgery to remove the "X" that Manson ordered them to carve on their foreheads, showing they were "X"ed out of society. Some live with endless regret. Those who escaped taking part in the spasm of terror that snuffed out at least nine lives would seem to be lucky. But their lives have been linked forever to one of the craziest mass murders in history. "Manson made a lot of victims besides the ones he killed," said Catherine Share, who once lived with the Manson Family under the nickname "Gypsy." "He destroyed lives. There are people sitting in prison who wouldn't be there except for him. He took all of our lives." It was 1969, the summer of the first moon landing. War was raging in Vietnam. Hippies were in the streets of San Francisco, the last bastion of the waning counterculture movement. For many, that summer is remembered for one thing — the most shocking celebrity murders to ever hit Los Angeles. Mention of the Sharon Tate murders or the name Manson four decades later is enough to make people shudder. On the morning of Aug. 9, a housekeeper ran screaming from a home in lush Benedict Canyon. She had discovered a scene of unspeakable carnage. Five bodies were scattered around the estate. The most famous, actress Sharon Tate, 26, the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski, had been stabbed multiple times. But there were four others that day and two more the next. Abigail Folger, 25, heiress to a coffee fortune; Jay Sebring, 35, celebrity hair stylist; Voyteck Frykowski, 32, a Polish film director and Steven Parent, 18, friend of the caretaker, were found stabbed or shot in a bloody scene. On the front door the victims' blood was used to scrawl the words, "Death to Pigs." The city was thrown into a state of fear. If that was not enough, a similar murder scene was discovered the next night. Wealthy grocer Leno La Bianca, 44, and his wife Rosemary, 38, were found stabbed to death in their home across town. A killer had carved the word "WAR" on Leno La Bianca's body. The words "Helter Skelter" were written in blood on the refrigerator. "These murders were probably the most bizarre in the recorded annals of American crime," said Vincent Bugliosi, the former deputy district attorney who prosecuted the killers and wrote the book, "Helter Skelter." It would be more than three months before the name Charles Manson was linked to the crimes. And then the story became even weirder. The discovery of Manson's clan living in a high desert commune opened up the astounding story of an ex-convict who had gathered young people into a cult and ordered them to kill. His reasons still remain a subject of debate. Some say he wanted to foment a race war; others say it was senseless. "It was a real-life horror story," recalled Stephen Kay, who also prosecuted the Manson Family. "Manson is the real-life Freddie Kruger." The former prosecutors worry that Manson, 74, is becoming a folk hero to a new generation. He is the subject of several Web sites, and Manson souvenirs are sold online. "Evil has its lure and Manson has become a metaphor for evil," said Bugliosi. Those cult members lucky enough not to have killed for Manson on Aug. 9-10, 1969 have spent decades trying to bury their past and free themselves from his grasp. Some never succeeded. Sandra Good and Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme committed crimes later that they said were for Manson and went to federal prison. When Good, 65, was paroled she moved near the maximum security prison that holds Manson, reportedly so she could "feel his vibes." Fromme, 60, is due for parole this summer after serving 33 years for the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford. In 1969, there were perhaps 30 of them, a ragtag band of runaways and dropouts living on a movie ranch in the San Fernando Valley, all loyal to a sha
Need help proofreading? “The Government’s Response to Hurricane Katrina” Hurricane Katrina was the most destructive natural disaster to ever hit America. Over 90,000 square miles of land was destroyed, about the size of the United Kingdom. In Mississippi, the storm obliterated coastal communities and left thousands destitute. New Orleans was overwhelmed by flooding. Along the Gulf Coast, tens of thousands suffered without basic essentials for almost a week. More than 1500 people died and not just from the storm alone. Suffering continued in the days and weeks after the storm passed because of the government’s failure at all levels to plan, prepare for and respond aggressively to the storm. In this paper, will explain how the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina greatly affected the nation and the many factors that show the government’s inability to plan, prepare for, and respond to national catastrophes lead to one of the most talked about event in history. The first factor is the long term warnings that went unheeded. Before Hurricane Katrina, government officials knew for forty years of the potentially devastating threat of a catastrophic hurricane to the Gulf region and the destruction it could cause. Government officials had plenty of time to prepare for a catastrophic hurricane but refused to heed the warnings of past hurricanes to the gulf coast. For example when New Orleans experienced flooding in some areas of remarkably similar proportions from Hurricane Betsy in 1965, and when Hurricane Camille devastated the Gulf Coast in 1969 (NOAA/ National Weather Services). When Hurricane George hit the Gulf in 1998, the state of Louisiana to ask FEMA for assistance with catastrophic hurricane planning but little was accomplished in the six years of planning. With six years of planning, the government should have had time to develop and test a catastrophic hurricane plan. In 2004, numerous experts and governmental officials had been anticipating an increase in violent hurricanes, and New Orleans’ special and growing vulnerability to catastrophic flooding due to changing geological and other conditions. If these facts were known, why weren’t plans made in order to prevent a disaster such as this from happening? It seems as though that officials at every level of government did not appear to grasp the magnitude of the storm’s potential for destruction before it made landfall despite strongly worded advisories from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and personal warnings from NHC Director Max Mayfield. Mayfield was so worried about Hurricane Katrina that he called the governors of Louisiana, Mississippi, and the mayor of New Orleans to discuss the effect Hurricane Katrina might have on their regions. Mayfield even talked about the force of Katrina during a video conference call to President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas (Lush). If Mayfield was so worried about the effects of the storm, why weren’t his advice heeded and the necessary precautions taken to reduce the effects of Hurricane Katrina? The second factor was the terrible decisions in the days before the hurricane hit. Some coastal towns in Mississippi went to extraordinary lengths to get citizens to evacuate, including sending people door-to-door to convince people to move out of harm’s way. While New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin only orders a mandatory evacuation of all residents from the city of New Orleans. Yet instead of asking for assistance to help residents who lacked the means to leave the city, he orders the Superdome to be opened as a shelter of last resort. The Superdome proved to be more like a prison than a shelter. More than 20,000 people were forced to reside inside the Superdome without working plumbing, food, water, and other necessities for nearly two weeks. Yet Ray Nagin decided that this was appropriate shelter for those people instead of evacuating everyone out of the city. Hurricane Katrina’s devastating effects were felt before the storm even reached the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. In the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Katrina battered the offshore energy infrastructure and forced the evacuation of more than 75 percent of the Gulf’s 819 manned oil platforms. Two days before landfall, U.S. energy companies estimated that the approaching storm had already reduced Gulf of Mexico oil production by more than a third. The government knew that if Hurricane Katrina had that much force to evacuate 819 manned oil platforms, that the havoc it would reap on the New Orleans would be devastating. Despite the understanding of the Gulf Coast’s vulnerability to hurricane devastation, officials braced for Katrina with full awareness of critical deficiencies in their plans and enormous holes in their resources. While Katrina’s destructive force could not be denied, state and local officials did not have enough of the resources at their disposal. And even though the Governors of the three affected states requested, and President Bush issued, emergency declarations before the Hurricane hit, none of it actually prepared citizens for what they were about to experience. Another terrible decision was the lack of transportation and supplies. FEMA failed to approach other federal agencies for help with transportation to ensure that the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana had the means to evacuate their citizens. The City of New Orleans was unprepared to help people evacuate, as many buses from the city’s own fleet were submerged, while at the same time officials had not arranged in advance for drivers for those buses that were available. On Monday, August 29, 2005, Governor Blanco asked FEMA Director Michael Brown for buses, and Brown assured the state the same day that 500 buses were en route to assist in the evacuation of New Orleans and would arrive within hours. In spite of Brown’s assurances and the state’s continued requests over the course of the next two days, FEMA did not direct the U.S. Department of Transportation to send buses until very early on Wednesday, two days after Hurricane Katrina hit and the levees had broken, and the buses did not begin to arrive at all until Wednesday evening and not in significant numbers until Thursday (Millholom). By the time the government realized that they needed the buses to help get people out of the city, the levees had broken and most of the people who they intended to rescues had died or were either trapped on top of roofs on untraveled, flooded streets. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin could have prevented many deaths had he gotten people to drive the local buses through the residential areas to save the elderly and the people who had no way out. FEMA could have arraigned for buses from other towns close to New Orleans to rescue the citizens. Yet, these ideas were not thought of when they had two days before the levees broke. The government also failed to communicate properly throughout the entire Hurricane Katrina dilemma. The Homeland Security Operations Center (HSOC) was suppose to provide information about the disaster to decision-makers including the Secretary and the President but failed to create a system to identify and acquire all available, relevant information, and as a result situational awareness was deeply flawed. Yet reliable information on such vital developments as the levee failures, the extent of flooding, and the presence of thousands of people in need of life-sustaining assistance at the New Orleans Convention Center did not reach the White House, Secretary Chertoff or other key officials for hours, and in some cases more than a day. FEMA Director Michael Brown, then in Louisiana, contributed to the problem by refusing to communicate with Secretary Chertoff opting instead to pass information directly to White House staff (Taylor). Moreover, even though senior DHS officials did receive on the day of landfall numerous reports that should have led to an understanding of the increasingly dire situation in New Orleans, many indicated they were not aware of the crisis until sometime Tuesday morning. DHS was slow to recognize the scope of the disaster and that FEMA had become overwhelmed. On the day after landfall, DHS officials were still struggling to determine the “ground truth” about the extent of the flooding despite the many reports it had received about the catastrophe. Government officials did not grasp the need to act on the less-than-complete information that is to be expected in a disaster. DHS leaders did not become fully engaged in recovery efforts until Thursday, when in Deputy Secretary Michael Jackson’s words, they “tried to kick it up a notch”; after that, they did provide significant leadership within DHS and FEMA as well as coordination across the federal government. But this effort should have begun sooner. This effort should have been done when they realized Hurricane Katrina was coming to destroy New Orleans. They had enough time to investigate the reports that were given or to go and get a firsthand look at the destruction that Hurricane Katrina had caused. Another factor was the government’s knowledge that the levees could not withstand a level 4 or 5 hurricane. The levees which prevented New Orleans from being turned into a swamp were built to only withstand Category 3 hurricanes. Officials have known for years that the levees could fail under the pressures of a Category 4 or 5 hurricanes but did nothing to reinforce the levees (CNN). There have been many different sources acknowledging the affects the hurricane would have on the levees. In 2002 the New Orleans Times-Picayune ran a five-part series exploring the vulnerability of the city (The New Orleans Times). The newspaper and other news media as well, specifically addressed the possibility of massive floods drowning residents, destroying homes and releasing toxic chemicals throughout the city. Reuters reported that in 2004, more than 40 state, local and volunteer organizations practiced a scenario in which a massive hurricane struck and levees were breached, allowing water to flood New Orleans. Under the simulation, called "Hurricane Pam," the officials "had to deal with an imaginary storm that destroyed more than half a million buildings in New Orleans and forced the evacuation of a million residents," the Reuters report said (Kahn). If government officials knew that the levees could not stand a Category 4 or 5 hurricanes, then why wasn’t anything done to reinforce the strength of the levees. If nothing could be done to reinforce the wall, why wasn’t a secondary barrier put in place in case of the levees actually breakage? The government had enough time to do something about the levees but instead choose to ignore that it was a structural problem. If the problem had been fixed, many lives and homes would have been spared. Government has since then fixed the levees. Almost a year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers declared that it had restored New Orleans' levees and floodwalls to pre-Hurricane Katrina strength. But yet again another storm weaker than Hurricane Katrina can destroy the levees once again. The new levees sit atop steel sheet piles driven 20 feet (6 meters) into the ground. The piles are long interlocking wall sections that retain water and transfer pressure deeper into the ground, where the soil is more stable (Bourne). But water from holes in the canal bed, excavated before Katrina or scoured by the storm, may be seeping under the barrier through permeable layers of sand and silt. Thus again making the levees a vulnerable target for the next hurricane. The government has spent 3 billion dollars on these levees only to have them possibly torn down again (MSNBC). What was the purpose of fixing the levees if they were still going to have major structural flaws in them that could possibly cause dozens of lives to be lost again? Another major factor is the law enforcement problem that New Orleans faced after Hurricane Katrina. Law enforcement outside the Superdome and the Convention Center was a major problem, and was fueled by several contributing factors, including multiple statements by government officials inflaming the public’s perception of the lawlessness in New Orleans (New York Times). Without effective law enforcement, real or imagined safety threats interrupted every aspect of the response. So without Fearing for their personal safety, medical and search and rescue teams withdrew from their missions. FEMA and commercial vendors of critical supplies often refused to make deliveries until military escorts could be arranged. In fact, there was some lawlessness, yet for every actual act there were rumors of dozens more, leading to widespread and inaccurate reporting that severely complicated a desperate situation (Dyson). Some were looters who were stealing just to be stealing but others were looting for the supplies such as water and food that the vendors refused to bring because of other crime or speculation. Unfortunately, local, state, and federal officials did little to stanch this rumor flow. Police presence on the streets was inadequate, in part because in a matter of hours Katrina turned the New Orleans police department from protectors of the public to victims of the storm as well. Nonetheless, most New Orleans police officers appear to have reported for duty, many setting aside fears about the safety of their families or the status of their homes just to maintain order amidst the chaos. The storm also laid waste to much of the city’s police headquarters and several district offices, along with hundreds of vehicles, rounds of ammunition, and uniforms were all destroyed within the first two days of landfall. Because of this reason, the government shipped out 15, 000 soldiers to enforce the law and maintain public safety (USA TODAY). Crime eventually died down and this was one area that the government actually accomplished something and did it correctly without hesitation. Another factor was the terrible living conditions that people faced while stranded in New Orleans. Over 20,000 people took refuge in Louisiana’s Superdome under unbearable living conditions. The halls reeked of urine and feces were everywhere, a sign of the broken plumbing system; food and water supplies were diminished; and crime ran rampant in the Superdome also known as the “Terrordome” (Brinkley). The Superdome was so packed, that thousands were turned away daily that were seeking refuge from the rising, polluted floodwaters. Many people who were trapped in the city due to the flooding from the breaking of the levees. Flooding in New Orleans drove thousands of survivors to attics and rooftops to await rescue. Some people were trapped in attics and nursing homes and drowned as the dirty waters rose around them. Others escaped only by chopping their way through roofs. Others were sleeping on bridges, cars, and any place they could find that the water could not reach them. The government failed to provide these people with appropriate shelter and when they did provide shelter, the living conditions were deplorable. They failed to provide them with enough food to make sure that they were well fed and not mal-nourished. While authorities recognized the need to begin search-and-rescue missions, other aspects of the response were hindered by a failure to quickly recognize the dimensions of the disaster. Not only did they face terrible living conditions in New Orleans but during the after math as well. FEMA did not even provide adequate temporary relocated homes for many victims who got displaced because of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA offer these people, some of whom lost 300,000 dollar homes, with trailers to live in. Others were stuck in hotels across the U.S. But that didn’t last long, FEMA terminated their contract with the hotels and many people found themselves homeless once again (New York Times). The government didn’t even have a system in place for those who lost their personal information. Many victims found it difficult to reconstruct their shattered lives. In many cases, they had either lost or forgotten basic documents, such as insurance information, birth certificates, and marriage licenses, which would later prove essential to rebuilding their lives. Most of the evacuees did not have access to their medical records, which increased the risk of complications when receiving medical treatment. And many of these citizens were faced with identity theft and no way to prove if they had payed certain debts off. After the government realized that its initial response and the actions it took towards the Hurricane Katrina situation, it releases “The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned”, an extensive review, that identifies deficiencies in the Federal government's response and lays the groundwork for transforming how the Nation - from every level of government, to the private sector, to individual citizens and communities - pursues a real and lasting vision of emergency preparedness and response (Fragos-Townsend). In conclusion, there are a lot of factors that contribute to the government’s appalling response to Hurricane Katrina and destruction that it caused. There are a lot of mixed feelings when it comes to this topic but I think the government has a lot of work to do in regards to creating and implementing a hurricane disaster program. 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The Origin of Aids....Please someone tell me if it's true!? The Manmade Origin Of AIDS By Paris and Dr. Kwame Nantambu Yes, you read it correctly. AIDS is manmade. Here you will read, explicitly, that the US government funded the creation of this virus that would "lead to yet another method of massive killing of large populations" and "be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease." Yes, there is most definitely a war going on, and it is much scarier than you probably ever imagined. Read on: The Development of the AIDS virus was funded in 1969 through funds obtained by the United States Defense Department via House Bill 15090. The Bill, which called for the US Defense Department to receive $10 million dollars to research, test and develop the virus, was reviewed in Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives during the ninety-first Congress in review of the Defense Appropriations for 1970. Copies of the full text of the Bill are not available in any public library and are impossible to locate online, although many other Bills are. Part Five of H.R. 15090 was entitled RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, sponsored by the Department of the Army, the Advanced Research Project Agency (now DARPA), and Defense Research and Engineering. The Feasibility program and laboratories were to have been completed by 1974 - 1975 and the virus between 1974 - 1979. The World Health Organization (WHO) started to inject AIDS - laced smallpox vaccine (Vaccina) into Africans in 1977. Over 2000 young white male homosexuals were injected with laced Hepatitis B vaccine in 1978 through the Centers for Disease Control and the New York Blood Center. The development of the virus apparently had a dual purpose: (1) As a political/ethnic weapon to be used against black individuals and (2) one of the programmed efforts at de-population. For the record it must be stated emphatically that the origin of AIDS has absolutely nothing to do with the green monkey, African people nor the Haitians. The stark reality is that, according to The Strecker Memorandum (1983): -AIDS is a man-made disease -AIDS is not a homosexual disease -AIDS is not a venereal disease -AIDS can be carried by mosquitoes -Condoms will reduce the chances of, but not prevent AIDS -There are at least six different AIDS viruses in the world 1 AIDS represents the most potent medical weapon in the armory of Europeans to annihilate, decimate and castrate African, Hispanic and Asian peoples under the rubric of European supremacy. Why and How was AIDS Created? The AIDS virus was created 'as a political/ethnic weapon to be used mainly against Blacks. 2 "AIDS is biological warfare at its Euro-supremacist zenith," according to Malcolm Turner in his book AIDS is Biological Warfare: A Warning to African People. "AIDS is not an act of God against homosexuals; it did not appear out of thin air and it did not come from Africa. It was designed to kill people of color and a review of the statistics show that this is exactly what is happening...it is the creation of a sick, demented white racist power structure... 3 The creation and subsequent deployment of the AIDS virus by the World Health Organization was not just a diabolical scientific exercise that got out of hand. It was a cold-blood successful attempt to create a killer virus which was then used in a successful experiment in Africa. 4 The creation of AIDS "was not an accident?. It was deliberate. 5 AIDS is nothing less than genocide by white racists against the rest of humanity. 6 The Real Origin of AIDS The AIDS virus was created by the United States government at Fort Dietrich in Maryland, a biological warfare laboratory in building number A550 in the P4 lab. The sum of US $10m was requested by the Defense Department to build the lab under the House of Representatives Bill number H.R. 15090 in the 91st Congress in 1970. 7 Dr. Theodore Strecker writes, "The US National Cancer institute, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, manufactured the AIDS virus in their laboratories at Fort Detrich, Maryland. They combined two deadly retroviruses, the Bovine Leukemia Virus and the Visna Virus, and injected them into human tissue cultures. The result was the AIDS virus, the first human retrovirus known to man and now believed to be 100 percent fatal to those infected. 8 Dr. Strecker further contends that AIDS couldn't have engineered itself, and reiterates that it was produced in a laboratory by virologists. "The World Health Organization (WHO) called for scientists to work with these deadly agents and attempt to make a hybrid virus that would be deadly to humans. An attempt was made to see if viruses could in fact exert selective effects on immune function. The possibility was looked into that the immune response to the virus itself would be impaired if the infecting virus damaged, more or less selectively, the cell responding to the virus? 9 The AIDS epidemic was triggered by the mass vaccination campaign which eradicated smallpox. 10 In fact, the WHO itself has studied "new scientific evidence suggesting that immunization with the smallpox vaccine Vaccinia, awakened the unsuspected, dormant human immuno defense virus infection (HIV). 11 Pearce Wright, an advisor to the WHO, writes, "I thought it was just a coincidence until we studied the latest findings about the reactions which can be caused by Vaccinia. Now I believe the smallpox vaccine theory is the explanation to the explosion of AIDS?. 12 The fact of the matter is that the WHO concluded that "in the relation to the immune response, a number of useful experimental approaches can be visualized?. 13 As a result, "they suggested that a way to do this would be to put their new killer virus (AIDS) into a vaccination program, sit back and observe the results. 14 The WHO used smallpox vaccine as their vicious vehicle to spread the AIDS virus and the geographic areas chosen were Uganda and other African countries, Haiti, Brazil and Japan. The present "AIDS epidemic coincides with these geographical areas. 15 As an addendum, "there is also substantial evidence" to show that a confidential source in the WHO has revealed that there is "a strong correlation between the proportion of people in different central African countries who consented to the smallpox vaccine program and the proportion of those now infected with AIDS. 16 The stark reality is that "the AIDS virus must be a man-made, bio-engineered virus. 17 Hence, it's no great surprise that the WHO, in true Euro-supremacist modus operandi, "started to inject AIDS-laced smallpox vaccine (Vaccina) into over 100 million Africans (as part of its global non-European population reduction program) in 1977. 18 Dr. Theodore A. Strecker further writes, "If the African green monkey could transmit AIDS to humans, the present known amount of infection in Africa makes it statistically impossible for a single episode, such as a monkey biting someone, to have brought this epidemic to this point. The doubling time of the number of people infected, about every 14 months, when correlated with the first known case, and the present known number of cases, prove beyond a doubt that a large number of people had to have been infected at the same time. Starting in 1972 with the first case from our mythical monkey and doubling the number infected from that single source every 14 months you get only a few thousand cases. From 1972 to 1987 is 15 years or 180 months. If it takes 14 months to double the number of cases, then there would have been 13 doublings, 1 then 2, then 4, then 8, etc. In 15 years, from a single source of infection there would be about 8,000 cases in Africa, not 75 million AIDS infected people. We are approaching World War II mortality statistics here without a shot being fired. 19 The fact of the matter is that under the current European global policy of annihilating people of color, "AIDS is expected to kill more people and orphan more children than all the wars of the 20th century combined. 20 The Global Impact of AIDS The spread of the AIDS virus is omnipresent among African peoples and people of color. AIDS is without any doubt, the largest epidemic in human history. The global magnitude of the impact of AIDS is such that as of June 2001, "more than 70 percent of the people with the virus that causes AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa, the poorest region in the world. 21 AIDS has transformed Africa into a "killing field. 22 In fifteen years, "AIDS has killed 11 million Africans, more than 80 percent of the world's AIDS deaths. 23 AIDS "has struck some 36 million people, 25.3 million of them in Africa, and orphaned 13 million children. 24 According to the United Nations in 1998, there are 5,500 AIDS-related funerals every day in Africa. 25 In Zimbabwe alone, 1,200 die each week from AIDS. As of February 2001, there are 5.8 million AIDS cases in South/Southeast Asia, 1.4 million in Latin America, and 640,000 in East Asia. In fact, in June 1991, it was reported that "by the end of this decade, Asia will be the epicenter of the worldwide AIDS epidemic, host to the fastest-growing AIDS population in the world. 26 As of February 2000, the Caribbean has as high as 700,000 people infected with AIDS, thus making the region "the second largest incidence in the world after Africa. 27 In the case of the United States, African-Americans account for about 11 percent of the national population but 57 percent of the AIDS cases. In 1999, African-Americans and Hispanics accounted for almost 70 percent of new HIV infections. However, strangely enough, death rates in Europe of people infected with the virus that causes AIDS have fallen 84 percent since 1985. 28 The reality is that two-thirds of the people in the world infected with AIDS today are in sub-Saharan Africa, but only about 2 percent are in Western Europe. That is no accident. It is genocide. The sole purpose of this heinous man-made virus is to reduce the global population of African peoples and people of color through AIDS decimation, annihilation and castration, by any and all means necessary. AIDS represents a medical intifadah declared against African people and people of color. The Tuskegee Experiment A relevant comparison analysis is the Tuskegee Experiment that was conducted by the U.S. government on innocent and unsuspecting African-American males from 1932-1972. In 1932, the United States Public Health Services solicited and recruited about 400 African-American males as guinea pigs in "one of the most notorious medical experiments ever" on the study of the effects of syphilis in Macon County, Alabama. 29 These subjects never gave informed consent for their participation in the study. "The Black men were never told they had syphilis nor were they told their disease could endanger their families. 30 In the fall of 1932, handbills were posted and circulated at several church gatherings in the poor county, where even the one black doctor served only those who could afford to pay. The ads promised "special treatment" for men with "bad blood," which, to local folks, could mean anything from VD to anemia to indigestion. Eager to take advantage of any kind of medical care that was free, men signed up in droves. Sadly, even when a penicillin treatment cure for syphilis became available in the 1940s, the men in the Tuskegee syphilis experiment "were not allowed to receive the antibiotic. 31 By U.S. government decree "other doctors in Macon County were forbidden to treat any of the men in the study. 32 These Black men were sharecroppers with no formal education. "Many had never seen a doctor, much less been treated by one. Anything white people asked them to do, they did. 33 The U.S. has stated that "the purpose of the study was to record the destructive effects of untreated syphilis and to follow closely the medical progress of the group until each man died. 34 However, according to Martin P. Levine, the experiment was easily justified by physicians and scientists because "it was widely believed that Black racial inferiority made them a notoriously syphilis-soaked race. 35 These physicians and scientists were convinced that: "(The) smaller brains (of these Black men) lacked mechanisms for controlling sexual desire, causing them to be highly promiscuous. They matured early and consequently were more sexually active, and the Black man's enormous penis with its long foreskin was prone to venereal infections. These physiological differences meant that disease must affect the races differently. 36 Conclusion In sum, the U.S. government-sponsored Tuskegee Experiment is germ-biological warfare committed on its own citizens for 40 years. It must be noted, however, that in 1974, a US Civil Rights attorney won a $10m settlement from the government for the Tuskegee victims and their heirs, and another $2.1m payment was received in 1976. On May 16, 1997, then-President Bill Clinton issued an official public apology on behalf of the U.S. government to the victims of the Tuskegee experiment. 37 So you see, the notion of waging biological warfare on so-called undesirable populations is not a foreign one to the US Government. This is it's legacy - the greatest homicidal and genocidal killing machine in the history of civilization. AS POSTED BY DAMON. Each one reach and teach one........NATION note to all :- I HAVE NOT MADE UP MY MIND! I just read this and was like wut the hell, where did this come from. I don't know what to think but honestly you really can't put nyfin past politics can you? Lol to the American Haters comment. :')
What about Skeptics of Buddhism, like us ? Please Patiently read everything.? Buddhism for beginners (and sceptical Westerners) Introduction Now that Buddhism is such a fast-growing religion in the West, a lot of Westerners are attracted to its rational approach and rejection of an all-powerful deity. But all too often we Westerners quickly get stuck on the idea of rebirth and the various cultural traditions that have become a part of Buddhism in Asia. I've been there myself - wondering if rebirth is for real, if karma is scientific, if Buddhism is rational, why I have to bow to a statue, and so on - and I almost gave up at one point. I've noticed also that some Westerners pop up on the Internet looking for others who've converted to Buddhism, hoping they can discover the trick to becoming a Buddhist despite a materialist upbringing. So this page is a mixture of useful resources and my own personal experiences in fully accepting Dharma as a way of life. I hope it will be of some use to others on the same path. •Where should I start? •What is Buddhism? •Are rebirth and karma for real? •What is our purpose in life? •What's the difference between Theravada and Mahayana? •Which tradition should I choose? •How do I become a Buddhist? •Which are good books to read? Where should I start? If there's one place you should not start, it's reincarnation/rebirth. Newcomers to Buddhism tend to open every book at the section on rebirth because what happens to us after we die is all-important in the monotheistic culture we come from. But the Buddha wasn't teaching rebirth as the goal of life. He said many times, "I teach suffering, and the way out of suffering." That was his message, to make nirvana (Pali: nibbana) - the end of suffering - the goal. So the place to start is with the basics, the Four Noble Truths and a practice aimed at reducing suffering. If this seems worthwhile to you, you're on your way. In fact, the best way to start is by doing a lot of reading. You need to know about the basic principles of Buddhism, its founder, its history, the different traditions, and what it can do for you. Even though there's a lot of stuff available free on the Internet, I still think a well-written book is the best way to go. For all of the above, try John Snelling's The Buddhist Handbook : A Complete Guide to Buddhist Schools, Teaching, Practice, and History or Gill Farrer-Halls' The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom (which is also a handbook). These two books are both excellent primers to start off with. There's also a short overview titled What is Buddhism? from the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. For inspiring books written by Western monks who really understand Westerners' problems, try Ajahn Sumedho's The Mind and the Way : Buddhist Reflections of Life or Ajahn Jagaro's True Freedom, which is available online: •Chapter 1: True Freedom •Chapter 2: Compassion - The Natural Expression of Awakening •Chapter 3: Buddhism and God •Chapter 4: Beyond Boredom and Depression •Chapter 5: Buddhism and Vegetarianism •Chapter 6: Death and Dying Another book that's a must-read is Thich Nhat Hanh's little-known masterpiece, Old Path, White Clouds : Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha, a beautiful and easy-to-read story of the Buddha's life drawn from accounts in the Pali Canon and illustrated with line drawings. For a thorough explanation of the nuts and bolts of the teachings and practice, check out Ayya Khema's Being Nobody, Going Nowhere : Meditations on the Buddhist Path (very good at showing how ego rules our lives) or Henepola Gunaratana's Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness : Walking the Buddha's Path. There are a lot of good books on Dharma (Pali: Dhamma), but I'd recommend starting of with the original Theravada Buddhism and checking out the Mahayana traditions like Zen and Tibetan when you have a grasp of the basics. What you read will depend on what particular problems brought you to Buddhism in the first place. Some authors, the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh, for example, have written books on anger management. But it's important to practise too. In addition to following the Five Precepts, try practising Right Speech, generosity, compassion, being less self-centred, being less addicted to pleasures of the senses and being less concerned with possessions. And once you have a good grasp of the basic teachings and different traditions, it will be time to start meditating. Your situation in life may affect your practice and progress. If you live near a temple or Buddhist group, you'll be able to listen to Dharma talks, make Dharma friends and be with a community of like-minded people. If you don't, there are always the Internet and Buddhist forums such as E-Sangha and the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. I personally live in a Buddhist country where the majority of people don't understand the deeper teachings of Buddhism, so their focus is on making merit for a better rebirth and participating in ceremonies. So I rely a lot on the Internet, on Amazon and a few friends. I rarely go to temples. What is Buddhism? The following article is from the website of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. The author explains karma and rebirth in the traditionally accepted way and is somewhat sceptical about the origins of the Mahayana sutras, but otherwise it's an excellent overview of Buddhism. Introduction For more than 2,500 years, the religion we know today as Buddhism has been the primary inspiration behind many successful civilizations, the source of great cultural achievements and a lasting and meaningful guide to the very purpose of life for millions of people. Today, large numbers of men and women from diverse backgrounds throughout our world are following the Teachings of the Buddha. So who was the Buddha and what are His Teachings? The Buddha The man who was to become the Buddha was born Siddhattha Gotama around 2,600 years ago as a Prince of a small territory near what is now the Indian-Nepalese border. Though he was raised in splendid comfort, enjoying aristocratic status, no amount of material pleasure could satisify the enquiring and philosophic nature of the young man. At the age of 29 he left palace and family to search for a deeper meaning in the secluded forests and remote mountains of North-East India. He studied under the wisest religious teachers and philosophers of his time, learning all they had to offer, but he found it was not enough. He then struggled alone with the path of self- mortification, taking that practice to the extremes of asceticism, but still to no avail. Then, at the age of 35, on the full moon night of May, he sat beneath the branches of what is now known as the Bodhi Tree, in a secluded grove by the banks of the river Neranjara, and developed his mind in deep but luminous, tranquil meditation. Using the extraordinary clarity of such a mind with its sharp penetrative power generated by states of deep inner stillness, he turned his attention to investigate upon the hidden meanings of mind, universe and life. Thus he gained the supreme Enlightenment experience and from that time on he was known as the Buddha. His Enlightenment consisted of the most profound and all-embracing insight into the nature of mind and all phenomena. This Enlightenment was not a revelation from some divine being, but a discovery made by Himself and based on the deepest level of meditation and the clearest experience of the mind. It meant that He was no longer subject to craving, ill-will and delusion but was free from their shackles, having attained the complete ending of all forms of inner suffering and acquired unshakeable peace. The Teachings of the Buddha Having realized the goal of Perfect Enlightenment, the Buddha spent the next 45 years teaching a Path which, when diligently followed, will take anyone regardless of race, class or gender to that same Perfect Enlightenment. The Teachings about this Path are called the Dhamma, literally meaning "the nature of all things" or "the truth underlying existence". It is beyond the scope of this pamphlet to present a thorough description of all of these Teachings but the following 7 topics will give you an overview of what the Buddha taught: 1. The way of Inquiry The Buddha warned strongly against blind faith and encouraged the way of truthful inquiry. In one of His best known sermons, the Kalama Sutta, the Buddha pointed out the danger in fashioning one's beliefs merely on the following grounds: on hearsay, on tradition, because many others say it is so, on the authority of ancient scriptures, on the word of a supernatural being, or out of trust in one's teachers, elders, or priests. Instead one maintains an open mind and thoroughly investigates one's own experience of life. When one sees for oneself that a particular view agrees with both experience and reason, and leads to the happiness of one and all, then one should accept that view and live up to it! This principle, of course, applies to the Buddha's own Teachings. They should be considered and inquired into using the clarity of mind born of meditation. Only when one sees these Teachings for oneself in the experience of insight, do these Teachings become one's Truth and give blissful liberation. The traveller on the way of inquiry needs the practice of tolerance. Tolerance does not mean that one embraces every idea or view but means one doesn't get angry at what one can't accept. Further along the journey, what one once disagreed with might later be seen to be true. So in the spirit of tolerant inquiry, here are some more of the basic Teachings as the Buddha gave them. 2. The Four Noble Truths The main Teaching of the Buddha focuses not on philosophical speculations about a Creator God or the origin of the universe, or on a heaven world ever after. The Teaching, instead, is centred on the down-to-earth reality of human suffering and the urgent need to find lasting relief from all forms of discontent. The Buddha gave the simile of a man shot by a poison-tipped arrow who, before he would call a doctor to treat him, demanded to know first who shot the arrow and where the arrow was made and of what and by whom and when and where ... this foolish man would surely die before his questions could be well answered. In the same way, the Buddha said, the urgent need of our existence is to find lasting relief from recurrent suffering, which robs us of happiness and leaves us in strife. Philosophical speculations are of secondary importance and, anyway, they are best left until after one has well trained the mind in meditation to the stage where one has the ability to examine the matter clearly and find the Truth for oneself. Thus, the central Teaching of the Buddha, around which all other teachings revolve, is the Four Noble Truths: 1.That all forms of being, human and otherwise, are afflicted with suffering. 2.That the cause of this suffering is Craving, born of the illusion of a soul (see below, note 7). 3.That this suffering has a lasting end in the Experience of Enlightenment (Nibbana) which is the complete letting go of the illusion of soul and all consequent desire and aversion. 4.That this peaceful and blissful Enlightenment is achieved through a gradual training, a Path that is called the Middle Way or the Eightfold Path. It would be mistaken to label this Teaching as 'pessimistic' on the grounds that it begins by centring on suffering. Rather, Buddhism is 'realistic' in that it unflinchingly faces up to the truth of life's many sufferings and it is 'optimistic' in that it shows a final end of the problem of suffering - Nibbana, Enlightenment in this very life! Those who have achieved this ultimate peace are the inspiring examples who demonstrate once and for all that Buddhism is far from pessimistic, but it is a Path to true Happiness. 3. The Middle Way or Eightfold Path The Way to end all suffering is called the Middle Way because it avoids the two extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification. Only when the body is in reasonable comfort but not over-indulged has the mind the clarity and strength to meditate deeply and discover the Truth. This Middle Way consists of the diligent cultivation of Virtue, Meditation and Wisdom, which is explained in more detail as the Noble Eightfold Path. 1.Right Understanding 2.Right Thought 3.Right Speech 4.Right Action 5.Right Livelihood 6.Right Effort 7.Right Mindfulness 8.Right Concentration Right Speech, Action and Livelihood constitute the training in Virtue or Morality. For a practising Buddhist it consists of maintaining the five Buddhist Precepts, which are to refrain from: 1.Deliberately causing the death of any living being; 2.Intentionally taking for one's own the property of another; 3.Sexual misconduct, in particular adultery; 4.Lying and breaking promises; 5.Drinking alcohol or taking stupefying drugs which lead to lack of mindfulness. Right Effort, Mindfulness and Concentration refer to the practice of Meditation, which purifies the mind through the experience of blissful states of inner stillness and empowers the mind to penetrate the meaning of life through profound moments of insight. Right Understanding and Thought are the manifestation of Buddha-Wisdom which ends all suffering, transforms the personality and produces unshakeable serenity and tireless compassion. According to the Buddha, without perfecting the practice of Virtue it is impossible to perfect Meditation, and without perfecting Meditation it is impossible to arrive at Enlightenment Wisdom. Thus the Buddhist Path is a Gradual Path, a Middle Way consisting of Virtue, Meditation and Wisdom as explained in the Noble Eightfold Path leading to happiness and liberation. 4. Kamma Kamma means 'action'. The Law of Kamma means that there are inescapable results of our actions. There are deeds of body, speech or mind that lead to others' harm, one's own harm, or to the harm of both. Such deeds are called bad (or 'unwholesome') kamma. They are usually motivated by greed, hatred or delusion. Because they bring painful results, they should not be done. There are also deeds of body, speech or mind that lead to others' well being, one's own well being, or to the well being of both. Such deeds are called good (or 'wholesome') kamma. They are usually motivated by generosity, compassion or wisdom. Because they bring happy results, they should be done as often as possible. Thus much of what one experiences is the result of one's own previous kamma. When misfortune occurs, instead of blaming someone else, one can look for any fault in one's own past conduct. If a fault is found, the experience of its consequences will make one more careful in the future. When happiness occurs, instead of taking it for granted, one can look to see if it is the result of good kamma. If so, the experience of its pleasant results will encourage more good kamma in the future. The Buddha pointed out that no being whatsoever, divine or otherwise, has any power to stop the consequences of good and bad kamma. The fact that one reaps just what one sows gives to the Buddhist a greater incentive to avoid all forms of bad kamma while doing as much good kamma as possible. Though one cannot escape the results of bad kamma, one can lessen their effect. A spoon of salt mixed in a glass of pure water makes the whole very salty, whereas the same spoon of salt mixed in a freshwater lake hardly changes the taste of the water. Similarly, the result of a bad kamma in a person habitually doing only a small amount of good kamma is painful indeed, whereas the result of the same bad kamma in a person habitually doing a great deal of good kamma is only mildly felt. This natural Law of Kamma becomes the force behind, and reason for, the practice of morality and compassion in our society. 5. Rebirth The Buddha remembered clearly many of His past lives. Even today, many Buddhist monks, nuns and others also remember their past lives. Such a strong memory is a result of deep meditation. For those who remember their past life, Rebirth is an established fact which puts this life in a meaningful perspective. The Law of Kamma can only be understood in the framework of many lifetimes, because it sometimes takes this long for Kamma to bear its fruit. Thus Kamma and Rebirth offer a plausible explanation to the obvious inequalities of birth; why some are born into great wealth whereas others are born into pathetic poverty; why some children enter this world healthy and full-limbed whereas others enter deformed and diseased... The fruits of bad Kamma are not regarded as a punishment for evil deeds but as lessons from which to learn, for example, how much better to learn about the need for generosity than to be reborn among the poor! Rebirth takes place not only within this human realm. The Buddha pointed out that the realm of human beings is but one among many. There are many separate heavenly realms and grim lower realms, too, realms of the animals and realms of the ghosts. Not only can human beings go to any of these realms in the next life, but we can come from any of these realms into our present life. This explains a common objection against Rebirth that argues "How can there be Rebirth when there are ten times as many people alive today than there were 50 years ago?" The answer is that people alive today have come from many different realms. Understanding that we can come and go between these different realms, gives us more respect and compassion for the beings in these realms. It is unlikely, for example, that one would exploit animals when one has seen the link of Rebirth that connects them with us. 6. No Creator God The Buddha pointed out that no God or priest nor any other kind of being has the power to interfere in the working out of someone else's Kamma. Buddhism, therefore, teaches the individual to take full responsibility for themselves. For example, if you want to be wealthy then be trustworthy, diligent and frugal, or if you want to live in a heaven realm then always be kind to others. There is no God to ask favours from, or to put it another way there is no corruption possible in the workings of Kamma. Do Buddhists believe that a Supreme Being created the universe? Buddhists would first ask which universe do you mean? This present universe, from the moment of the 'big bang' up to now, is but one among countless millions in Buddhist cosmology. The Buddha gave an estimate of the age of a single universe-cycle of around 37,000 million years, which is quite plausible when compared to modern astrophysics. After one universe- cycle ends another begins, again and again, according to impersonal law. A Creator God is redundant in this scheme. No being is a Supreme Saviour, according to the Buddha, because whether God, human, animal or whatever, all are subject to the Law of Kamma. Even the Buddha had no power to save. He could only point out the Truth so that the wise could see it for themselves. Everyone must take responsibility for their own future well-being, and it is dangerous to give that responsibility to another. 7. The Illusion of Soul The Buddha taught that there is no soul, no essential and permanent core to a living being. Instead, that which we call a 'living being', human or other, can be seen to be but a temporary coming together of many activities and parts - when complete it is called a 'living being', but after the parts separate and the activities cease it is not called a 'living being' anymore. Like an advanced computer assembled of many parts and activities, only when it is complete and performs coherent tasks is it called a 'computer', but after the parts are disconnected and the activities cease it is no longer called a 'computer'. No essential permanent core can be found which we can truly call 'the computer', just so, no essential permanent core can be found which we can call 'the soul'. Yet Rebirth still occurs without a soul. Consider this simile: on a Buddhist shrine one candle, burnt low, is about to expire. A monk takes a new candle and lights it from the old. The old candle dies, the new candle burns bright. What went across from the old candle to the new? There was a causal link but no thing went across! In the same way, there was a causal link between your previous life and your present life, but no soul has gone across. Indeed, the illusion of a soul is said by the Buddha to be the root cause of all human suffering. The illusion of 'soul' manifests as the 'Ego'. The natural unstoppable function of the Ego is to control. Big Egos want to control the world, average Egos try to control their immediate surroundings of home, family and workplace, and almost all Egos strive to control what they take to be their own body and mind. Such control manifests as desire and aversion, it results in a lack of both inner peace and outer harmony. It is this Ego that seeks to acquire possessions, manipulate others and exploit the environment. Its aim is its own happiness but it invariably produces suffering. It craves for satisfaction but it experiences discontent. Such deep- rooted suffering cannot come to an end until one sees, through deep and powerful meditation, that the idea 'me and mine' is no more than a mirage. These seven topics are a sample of what the Buddha taught. Now, to complete this brief sketch of Buddhism, let's look at how these Teachings are practised today. Types of Buddhism One could say that there is only one type of Buddhism and that is the huge collection of Teachings that were spoken by the Buddha. The original Teachings are found in the 'Pali Canon', the ancient scripture of Theravada Buddhism, which is widely accepted as the oldest reliable record of the Buddha's words. Theravada Buddhism is the dominant religion in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. Between 100 to 200 years after the passing away of the Buddha, the Sangha (the monastic community) split over the political question of 'Who runs the Sangha?' A controversy over some monastic rules was decided by a committee of Arahats (fully Enlightened monks or nuns) against the views of the majority of monks. The disgruntled majority resented what they saw as the excessive influence of the small number of Arahats in monastery affairs. From then on, over a period of several decades, the disaffected majority partially succeeded in lowering the exalted status of the Arahat and raising in its place the ideal of the Bodhisattva (an unenlightened being training to be a Buddha). Previously unknown scriptures, supposedly spoken by the Buddha and hidden in the dragon world, then appeared giving a philosophical justification for the superiority of the Bodhisattva over the allegedly 'selfish' Arahat. This group of monks and nuns were first known as the 'Maha Sangha', meaning 'the great (part) of the monastic community'. Later, after impressive development, they called themselves the 'Mahayana', the 'Greater Vehicle' while quite disparagingly calling the older Theravada 'Hinayana', the 'Inferior Vehicle'. Mahayana still retains most of the original teachings of the Buddha (in the Chinese scriptures these are known as the 'Agama' and in the Tibetan version as the 'Kangyur') but these core teachings were mostly overwhelmed by layers of expansive interpretations and wholly new ideas. The Mahayana of China, still vibrant in Taiwan, reflects an earlier phase of this development, the Mahayana of Vietnam, Korea and Japan (mostly Zen) is a later development, and the Mahayana of Tibet and Mongolia is a much later development still. Buddhism's relevance to the world today Today, Buddhism continues to gain ever wider acceptance in many lands far beyond its original home. Here in Australia, many Australians through their own careful choice are adopting Buddhism's peaceful, compassionate and responsible ways. The Buddhist Teaching of the Law of Kamma offers our society a just and incorruptible foundation and reason for the practice of a moral life. It is easy to see how a wider embracing of the Law of Kamma would lead any country towards a stronger, more caring and virtuous society. The Teaching of Rebirth places this present short lifetime of ours in a broader perspective, giving more meaning to the vital events of birth and death. The understanding of Rebirth removes so much of the tragedy and grief surrounding death and turns one's attention to the quality of a lifetime, rather than its mere length. From the very beginning, the practice of meditation has been at the very heart of the Buddhist Way. Today, meditation grows increasingly popular as the proven benefits to both mental and physical well being become more widely known. When stress is shown to be such a major cause of human suffering, the quieting practice of meditation becomes ever more valued. Today's world is too small and vulnerable to live angry and alone, thus the need for tolerance, love and compassion is so very important. These qualities of mind, essential for happiness are formally developed in Buddhist meditation and then diligently put into practice in everyday life. Forgiveness and gentle tolerance, harmlessness and peaceful compassion are well known trademarks of Buddhism, they are given freely and broadly to all kinds of beings, including animals of course, and also, most importantly, to oneself. There is no place for dwelling in guilt or self-hatred in Buddhism, not even a place for feeling guilty about feeling guilty! Teachings and practices such as these are what bring about qualities of gentle kindness and unshakeable serenity, identified with the Buddhist religion for 25 centuries and sorely needed in today's world. In all its long history, no war has ever been fought in the name of Buddhism. It is this peace and this tolerance, growing out of a profound yet reasonable philosophy, which makes Buddhism so vitally relevant to today's world. Are rebirth and karma for real? Is rebirth for real - either as a human or in one of the other realms? This is the question most Westerners ask as soon as they become interested in Buddhism. Karma (Pali: Kamma) - the law of cause and effect - operates across multiple lifetimes, but where's the proof that there is any life other than the current one? It's a complex subject and each tradition has its own explanation. It isn't uncommon for different teachers in the same tradition to have a different take on rebirth. One thing's for sure, there is no scientific proof of rebirth (yet). There are rational explanations, but they all rest on unprovable assumptions. One way to approach the question of rebirth is suggested by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, who says, "You don't have to believe in rebirth, you just have to take it as a working hypothesis." Other teachers, such as Ajahn Summedho, have a similar view, that since we can never know what will happen after death, it makes sense to practise Dharma (Pali: Dhamma) and live this life in the best way possible. Some well-known monks, Ajahn Brahm and P.A. Payutto among them, say that when meditators reach the third or fourth jhana (level of absorbtion) they are able to "read their past lives" as the Buddha did and experience the truth of rebirth. But this ability is by no means universal, even among meditation masters. Another explanation championed by Buddhadasa, Thailand's most revered monk, is that rebirth in a series of physical bodies is "conventional talk" to make the subject understandable for the masses, but in "Dharma talk" what the Buddha really meant was that each life was the arising of the ego in the mind. So we experience "death" and "rebirth" (of the ego) many times each day. Similarly, the six realms of existence all correspond to states of mind. In the same way, the cause and effect of karma can be observed in our own mental states - when we do good deeds it results in a wholesome mental state, when we do bad deeds, we experience unwholesome mental states. This rational explanation of rebirth and karma doesn't necessarily exclude the traditional view. It augments it. What works for me is to take both of them as working hypotheses and practise accordingly. Recalling the Buddha's story about the man shot with a poisoned arrow, if we need to have every detail of the teaching proved to us at the outset, we'll be dead before we start practising. What is our purpose in life? The traditional answer to this is that our purpose is to attain nirvana and stop the endless cycle of rebirths and suffering. But the idea of a general purpose for mankind suggests that someone or something created that purpose, which in turn suggests an omnipotent deity. The way I think of it is that we have no pre-ordained purpose. We evolved, and here we are. Because we also evolved language and conceptual thinking, we got stuck with this concept of a self, an ego that makes us feel separate from everything else. The ego needs constant reassurance of its importance, which is why we cling to our views and defend them fanatically, and why we are constantly criticizing others. Our ego rules our lives. It is terrified of being snuffed out. We handle this in different ways. Some of us have lots of kids so we can feel that a part of us lives on forever through our descendants. Some of us perform heroic deeds so that our names will live on in history forever. Some of us get onto Ripley's Believe It Or Not with the world's longest moustache or beating the world record for smashing melons with our head, or some such nonsense, so that we'll achieve digital immortality. Some of us cling to the idea that a god will give us eternal life in some form after death. For those of us who don't find this pseudo-immortality or unguaranteed immortality satisfying, there's a need to create our own purpose in life. This is where Buddhism fits the bill nicely. Instead of being ruled by the ego and its fears, get rid of it! Being rid of the ego and the suffering it brings is what Ajahn Jagaro called "True Freedom" - a very appealing idea for all of us. If we don't achieve true freedom in this life, we should get another chance in a future life. But simply diminishing the ego and increasing freedom in this life seems like a worthwhile purpose to me. What's the difference between Theravada and Mahayana? To preserve the monastic order, the Buddha set down 227 rules for a bhikkhu (monk) to observe and 311 for a bhikkhuni (nun). Before his death (known as parinirvana) he said that some minor rules could be changed. Within a short time of his passing away there was disagreement over what could be changed and different sects emerged. The more reformist sects later called themselves Mahayana (greater vehicle) and referred to the conservative sects as Hinayana (lesser vehicle). The only conservative sect remaining today is Theravada, which is prevalent in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand. Theravada recognises the Pali Canon as its scriptures and a variety of ancient Theravadin commentaries. Whereas Theravada spread to the south and east, Mahayana moved to the northwest through what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan and then across Central Asia to China, Tibet, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. For historical reasons, the language of Mahayana scriptures was Sanskrit and that of Theravada was Pali. Hence the difference in spelling of some common Buddhist terms: Nirvana/Nibbana, Sutra/Sutta, Karma/Kamma, Dharma/Damma, etc. Westerners are more familiar with Mahayana Sanskrit terms. Mahayana also has its own scriptures in addition to the Pali Canon, the most important of which is the Lotus Sutra. These sutras are purported to be the Buddha's secret "higher" teachings, which were handed down only to those who were ready for them - an idea emphasised at the beginning of the Lotus Sutra. Apart from a modified monastic code which made monasticism possible in harsh environments such as Tibet, Mahayana emphasises the Bodhisattva Ideal, where a man vows not to achieve final enlightenment until all sentient beings have been saved. So anyone helping others to achieve enlightenment can be considered a bodhisattva. In Theravada, the term bodhisattva usually refers only to the historical Buddha in his previous lives. Historically, some Mahayanists consider Theravadins to be selfish for seeking enlightenment only for themselves, while some Theravadins consider Mahayanists to have deviated from what the Buddha taught. The various sutras and sects of Mahayana reflect different ways of reaching enlightenment appropriate for different people with different levels of ability. Because of this, a number of "mythical" buddhas and bodhisattvas are revered and used as objects of meditation. Theravadins revere only the historical Buddha and only his image is seen in temples. Mahayana tends to emphasise the concept of sunyata (void-ness) in its teachings and tends to have a more specific idea of what passes from rebirth to rebirth (consciousness, comprising awareness and memory). Personally, I found that the more I read about Mahayana and the Tibetan tradition known as Vajrayana, the more I accepted that all sects are going in the same direction and there is no point in considering any one of them better than another. Which tradition should I choose? I suggest reading about Theravada first and then investigating the other traditions to see which suits you best. Your decision may also depend on your Buddhist friends and what is available where you live. As far as I know, the main traditions known in the West are Theravada, Tibetan, Zen, Pure Land and Nichiren. One myth that seems to have grown up over the years is that with Mahayana one can reach enlightenment in one lifetime whereas with Theravada it takes aeons. This notion seems to have been pushed by the Chinese Zen patriarchs, in particular Huang Po, as illustrated in The Zen Teaching of Huang Po. In modern times the idea has been spread by influential author-scholar John Blofeld, who translated Huang Po's works into English and wrote several excellent books on Buddhism. But it all seems pretty ridiculous because how could anyone know how many lives ago any particular person started consciously working towards enlightenment? Blofeld followed Zen and then Tibetan Buddhist Tantrism, describing both as the "Short Path." However, it isn't difficult to see that any tradition that emphasises meditation - as the Buddha did - will be a short path. In the past century, the Thai Forest Tradition is a good example of a Theravadin tradition that produced a number of enlightened masters. According to Blofeld, Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism in particular offer ways of practice to suit people at every level. After all, not everyone has an aptitude for meditation. A lot of people prefer something simpler, such as praying, chanting, various forms of devotion and pilgrimages. He describes Zen and Theravada as "formless," meaning the practice is mostly just you and your mind. But in fact there's a lot more to both than just meditation. Tibetan Buddhism seems to attract Westerners because there are now a lot of Tibetan lamas and monasteries in the West, because of the charisma of the Dalai Lama, because it can be a "Short Path," because of its reputation for developing psychic powers and because of its many varied methods of practice. However, Tibetan Buddhism has absorbed much of the ancient, shamanistic Bon religion of Tibet, so it's wise to read up on Tibet thoroughly before committing to it. Zen attracts Westerners because it's something of a "back to basics" tradition with an emphasis on meditation and very little ritual. Sakyamuni, the historical Buddha, is revered rather than the other mythical buddhas and bodhisattvas of the Mahayana sutras. Although it originated in China, the type of Zen practised in the West is mostly Japanese. Theravada attracts Western practicioners because it is seen as the oldest and purest form of Buddhism, one that reveres only Sakyamuni and in theory concentrates on meditation. The Thai Forest Tradition which developed in the late 1800s was an effort to practise exactly as the Buddha did, wandering in the jungle and meditating in caves. Although the jungle is largely gone now, a number of Westerners joined Ajahn Chah's international monastery in the 1970s and later spread the practice in other countries: Ajahn Jagaro and Ajahn Brahm in Australia, Thanissaro Bhikkhu in the USA and Ajahn Sumedho in the UK. For a brief look at the origins of this tradition, see Thanissaro Bhikkhu's Customs of the Noble Ones. For a more detailed treatment, read Forest Recollections. Pure Land was once widespread in China and is still practised among Chinese around the world. A refined form of Pure Land (Jodo and Shin Jodo) developed in Japan and has spread to the West. Pure Land involves purifying the mind by chanting the name of the Amitabha (Amida) Buddha to gain help in reaching a realm after death from where it is easy to reach enlightenment. On a deeper level, Pure Land equals pure mind and Amitabha represents our own qualities rather than an external saviour. Pure Land is sometimes combined with Zen practice. Nichiren is a homegrown Japanese tradition advocating chanting of a phrase hailing the Lotus Sutra. An offshoot of Nichiren is the lay organisation, Sokka Gakai International. There are a few Buddhist sects and organisations that are controversial in some way, usually because of their founder/leader or his particular beliefs. Before getting involved with Sokka Gakai (SGI), the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO), Shugden or Diamond Way (Karma Kagyu), you might want to google for information about their background. How do I become a Buddhist? Although there is a ceremony of taking the Three Refuges (the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha), there isn't any "conversion" involved and you aren't required to renounce any other religion or beliefs. In fact, it seems to be more of a social statement to show others that you have become a Buddhist. In my opinion, once you accept the Buddha's teachings as a way of life and try to follow the Five Precepts for lay people, you're a Buddhist. For me, this involved a lot of reading Dharma and listening to Dharma talks on the Internet. Rather than read the scriptures (which are often difficult), I chose books by monks and nuns who already had a deep knowledge of Dharma through study and practice, and who had a talent for explaining it. I looked at how Buddhism developed over the millennia and decided to start off with Theravada, which is the original form of Buddhism based on the Pali Canon. Later, I investigated the various Mahayana traditions too. It was obvious to me that reducing the power of the ego to control our lives was a foundation of Buddhism. For my practice, I concentrated on Right Speech (a component of the Noble Eightfold Path) because I thought it would give the fastest results. I expected if I started being nice to people, eventually they'd be nicer to me. That happened, but much more than that. I found myself examining my intentions every time I felt like defending my views, arguing with someone, contradicting them, criticizing them, comparing myself with them or judging them in any way at all. Pretty soon it was obvious that much of what I said or did was designed to boost my sense of self-worth and that "true freedom" was to escape this tyranny of the ego. Later I started meditating, since this is the only way to experience the truth of the teaching rather than just understanding them intellectually. Even though the majority of people born into Buddhism may not meditate, it's essential for the serious Buddhist. Some Westerners have a problem with whether they are or aren't a Buddhist, usually because they still have some belief in god or because they haven't come to believe in rebirth. The following talk by Ajahn Jagaro, a Western monk of the Thai Forest Tradition, will be helpful for anyone asking himself, "Am I a Buddhist?" ________________________________________ Am I a Buddhist? by Ajahn Jagaro Teaching people who have only recently encountered Buddhism I am often asked the question "How do you become a Buddhist?" or "How do you know when you are a Buddhist?" This type of enquiry is indeed healthy and to be encouraged not only amongst those new to Buddhism but also for people born and raised as Buddhists. So go ahead and ask yourself: "Am I a Buddhist?" I expect that there will be many who will answer "Yes" and those who say "No", but I wonder how many will be thinking "Oh ... Ahm,.. I don't know." So let us contemplate this business of being a Buddhist a bit more. To begin our enquiry it may be worthwhile to know what the Buddha said on the matter. The following episode is taken from the Buddhist scriptures (Anguttara Nikaya, Vol IV): "Once, the Lord dwelt amongst the Sakyans in the Banyan Tree Monastery at Kapilavatthu, and while there, Mahanama the Sakyan came to him and asked; "How, Lord, does one become a lay disciple?" "When one has taken refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha, then one is a lay disciple". "How, Lord, is a lay disciple virtuous?" "When a lay disciple abstains from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying and drinking intoxicants, then he is virtuous." Here the Buddha clearly states that by taking refuge in the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha one becomes a disciple or, in modern terminology, a Buddhist. The classical formula of going for refuge, which has been passed down from the time of the Buddha is as follows; Buddham Saranam Gacchami (I go for refuge to the Buddha) Dhammam Saranam Gacchami (I go for refuge to the Dhamma) Sangham Saranam Gacchami (I go for refuge to the Sangha) However one does not become a Buddhist through the mere repetition of these words nor by the performance of any other ceremony ritual or initiation. On the other hand, though one has not performed any ceremony or ritual, one may still be a Buddhist. Put simply, this means that no one can make you a Buddhist nor can anyone stop you from being a Buddhist. It is a volitional choice that one makes when one has sufficient confidence in the Teacher and the Teaching. In the commentaries to the scriptures it explains this as, "It is an act of consciousness devoid of defilements, motivated by confidence in and reverence for the Triple Gem"... Here I would like to relate something of my own experience to help explain this point. When I first came in contact with Buddhism I did not consider myself a religious person. If anything, I thought of myself as an atheist and felt that religion had little relevance to real life. However, I did find the Buddha's Teachings and in particular the practice of meditation very appealing. I had a desire to find out more about it and this lead me into a monastery where I was eventually ordained as a monk. One day a young Thai student, wanting to practise his English, casually asked me "Are you a Buddhist?" But in my mind I wondered whether or not I was a Buddhist. I must confess that it was a strange position to be in - a Buddhist monk who doesn't know whether he is a Buddhist! Yet that situation persisted for over a year before the meaning of both the question and the answer became clear to me. During that year as I continued to study and practise the Dhamma I began to feel very comfortable with the teaching and increasingly confident that this was the way for me. With this came the conscious recognition that I had chosen the Buddha as my Teacher and considered him as the embodiment of the spiritual ideals of peace and liberation. I had also chosen to follow the path contained in his Teaching (the Dhamma) being confident that it would lead to liberation. And while on this path I would seek the guidance and try to emulate the example of all the noble disciples who constitute the Sangha. It was indeed wonderful to discover that I was a Buddhist and not just a Buddhist monk! Now becoming a Buddhist does not mean that one has to either agree with or believe in everything that is taught or practised by all the countless Buddhist sects and groups throughout the world. Nor do we have to believe that it is the only way and that all the other religions are no good. It simply means that having looked at and probed into this teaching of the Buddha, having tried it and having seen that it does work, one has confidence in it and chooses to take refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma, and Sangha. However if you are still unsure as to whether you are a Buddhist or you are not, don't worry about it, just keep on practising. With Metta, Jagaro Bhikkhu. ________________________________________ If you found this page useful or have any comments you can contact me at craigo@tale ofgenji.org. [ links | home | bibliography ]
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Sec. State certifies entire Diebold produ...Bev Harris52 1 4-3-06 10:20 am 2-17-06: Election family tree: Who got us into this and how did the...Catherine Ansbro4 1 3-30-06 10:40 am 2-11-06: Voting machine examiners chickening out on Senate investig...Ron Crane24 1 2-18-06 1:27 pm 2-6-06: Landes takes e-voting to Supreme CourtV. Kurt Bellman24 1 4-19-06 10:33 am 2-6-06: Diebold agrees to waive proprietary claims to GEMS database...Marian Beddill12 1 2-11-06 1:38 pm 2-5-06: What protects your personal information once it enters e-el...Paul Lehto70 1 7-21-06 1:17 pm 2-2-06: Embezzler Jeff Dean remote accessed Calif. counties for 200...Kathleen Wynne4 1 2-2-06 8:38 am 2-1-06: Voting system examiners blocked from telling what they know?Byron Hale21 1 2-6-06 3:16 am 1-31-06: Diebold anticipates $100 to $125 million in 2006 voting sy...Bev Harris1 1 1-31-06 8:56 am 1-26-06: Elections Programmer Jeff Dean worked for same firm as for...Bev Harris25 1 1-27-06 12:45 pm 1-24-06: Public Records Get The Big Chill: Alaska's Voters vs Diebo...Jim March5 1 1-31-06 2:29 pm 1-13-06: ES&S reneges on Leon County deal 2 days before HAVA deadl...Catherine Ansbro33 1 1-17-06 1:20 am 1-9-2006: DuPage County Elections paid $30,000 to Republican politi...Bev Harris12 1 2-3-06 8:20 am 1-5-06: Wisconsin moves toward public source, then guts itJohn Washburn10 1 1-5-06 4:21 pm 1-3-2006: Hold on to your lugnuts, ES&S and Sequoia may risk Hurst...Brant Lamb33 1 1-25-06 4:56 am 12-30-05: Roll up your sleeves, we ain't done yet!BBV Admin1 1 12-30-05 4:26 pm 12-28-2005: Pennsylvania declines some Diebold but reveals an odd biasArnold Peckerman24 1 12-31-05 2:17 pm 12-23-05: ES&S under fire in CaliforniaEdward Robles5 1 12-26-05 5:36 am 12-20-05: California 'Hack' test stalled as Diebold certification d...Brant Lamb116 1 1-25-06 1:27 pm 12-13-05: Devastating hack proven - Leon County dumps DieboldSamuel Scharff97 1 5-29-06 9:25 pm 12-9-05: Diebold hack test -- Sec. State / Black Box lawyer square offJim March6 1 12-12-05 3:01 pm 12-7-05: Diebold stockholder suit - here's some ammoJim March7 1 12-8-05 9:37 am 12-4-05: 'Leave it up to us, we know best' say officialsBBV Admin27 2 12-15-05 4:17 am 11-30-05: Nope, the hack test won't be todayCatherine Ansbro25 1 1-3-06 12:51 am 11-28-05: Latest on California hack situationBruce Sims45 1 11-30-05 4:40 pm 11-24-05: Turkey Day leftovers: No thanks for stuffing elections wi...Edward Robles2 1 11-27-05 7:55 am 11-23-05: Flag on the play - Calif. Sec. State official calls foul ...Catherine Ansbro17 1 11-29-05 10:18 am 11-22-05: California invites Black Box Voting to hack Diebold votin...John Washburn31 1 12-9-05 8:23 am 11-22-2005: Updates on felons - Jeffrey Dean and John ElderBBV Admin7 1 11-22-05 9:37 am 11-21-05: Diebold violates court orderBBV Admin10 1 11-28-05 8:27 am 11-18-05: Fasten your seatbelts - It's time to bring this thing in ...Edward Robles7 1 11-27-05 9:12 am 11-15-05: FEC Investigating rapper P. Diddy (but not Blackwell or M...Edward Robles5 1 11-27-05 9:16 am 11-13-05: Detroit, Michigan elections are now a significant concernBBV Admin11 1 11-23-05 5:16 am 11-9-05: Los Angeles County has the dog & pony show downEdward Robles2 1 11-27-05 9:33 am 11-8-05: Share your observations on voting today hereKathleen Wynne10 1 11-10-05 9:15 am 11-6-05: Two state elections heads resign in FloridaBBV Admin6 1 11-6-05 5:11 am 11-4-05: Mail-in votes at higher risk with Diebold systemsBBV Admin1 1 11-4-05 8:00 am 11-3-05: The first public examination under the 15004 lawJohn Washburn5 1 11-6-05 6:41 am 10-28-05: Blackwell Blunders on Voting Machine ExaminationJohn Washburn14 1 10-31-05 11:23 am 10-26-05: The 'Perimeter Defense' - Follies and FailuresBBV Admin7 1 10-31-05 3:57 pm 10-21-05: GAO & NIST - Voting machine security finally goes mainstr...From the Mailbag10 1 10-29-05 11:39 am 10-9-05: VotoScope audit tool will catch Hart Intercivic bugBev Harris22 1 10-12-05 1:06 pm 10-8-05: Investors considering Diebold class action suitBev Harris1 1 10-8-05 3:08 pm 10-5-05: Diebold Lies Move Up the LadderBev Harris5 1 10-8-05 3:21 pm 9-19-2005: Carter-Baker Panel Report: Proposed Reforms Miss the BoatBrad Friedman52 1 10-3-05 12:02 pm 9-10-2005: Here's your chance to 'Look inside the Black Box':...alex baxter21 1 11-1-05 4:23 am 9-7-2005: Digital Image ballot scanners -- good or bad?Brant Lamb19 1 10-5-05 4:41 am 8-25-2005: Voting Rights Act expiration 2007Admin3 1 8-25-05 9:56 am 8-15-05: Election Reform -- Impending ShuffleCatherine_a107 1 8-25-05 1:51 pm 8-13-2005: If this doesn't get your blood boiling...Ubetchaiam9 1 8-15-05 11:24 am 8-10-2005: Mississippi Paper Trail ImminentCatherine Ansbro18 1 12-14-05 2:47 am 8-9-2005: Exactly what we don't want: Our election on Diebold's ser...John Howard13 1 10-5-05 8:20 pm 8-8-2005: Arcata, (CA) seeks to wrest election control from corpora...jimmarch6 1 8-12-05 12:33 am 8-5-05: 'Think Outside the Black Box' - ONLINE THINK TANK Admin5 1 8-17-05 7:46 am 8-3-05: San Diego backs down on charges against BBV director Jim MarchUbetchaiam32 1 8-22-05 12:01 pm 7-29-2005: Mississippi, listen up: California just rejected the TSxadmin17 1 8-13-05 8:15 pm 7-28-05: In his own words: Jim March on taking back his civil rightsmymarkx11 1 7-29-05 11:46 am 7-26-2005: BBV Board Member Arrested in San Diego for Viewing Vote-...cleanbean63 1 7-29-05 4:17 pm 7-25-2005: Wondering about mail-in voting? Diebold's new VoteRemote...Catherine Ansbro28 1 3-30-06 12:43 pm 7-21-2005: ES&S, Diebold lobbyists had ties to bribery investigatio...mary_ann9 1 7-31-05 12:00 am 7-20-2005: Internal documents reveal more Diebold ethics problemsadmin4 1 7-20-05 7:24 am 7-18-2005: Are The Lights Going Out In Georgia?admin5 1 7-22-05 3:14 pm 7-17-2005: Gallina (Diebold) reportedly paid Blackwell, GOP cronies...admin1 1 7-17-05 12:07 pm 7-11-2005: Case Against Diebold and Florida Division of Electionskathleen_wynne3 1 7-13-05 9:32 am 7-4-2005: The Black Box ReportJohn Dean36 1 5-8-06 6:05 pm 7-3-2005: Diebold accounting mistake -- SEC stuff may be a biggieadmin11 1 7-4-05 10:58 pm 7-1-2005: July 4 Security Alert for Diebold Optical Scanscatherine_a17 1 7-5-05 1:29 am 6-24-2005: Black Box Voting Litigation Fund LaunchedBev Harris2 1 2-3-06 8:22 am 6-17-05: Report on Calif. meeting -- Decertify Diebold?ubetchaiam11 1 7-21-05 2:37 pm 6-8-2005: Palm Beach County fails auditlinda_franz7 1 6-15-05 8:29 am 5-27-05: Optical scan system hacked (3 ways) - BBV ExclusiveBrant Lamb73 1 8-9-06 11:06 am 5-9-05: Consumer Report Series -- Following the Money Trail – Part Iadmin1 1 5-9-05 3:18 pm 5-6-04: $45m (Diebold?) contract flying under radar in Cook County ...admin2 1 5-6-05 2:53 pm 5-11-05: CANCELLED - Call to action May 19, Sacramentoadmin1 1 5-6-05 11:05 am 5-04-05 – Easier Hacking Access Sneaks in w. ADA Compliance Measuresadmin1 1 5-4-05 9:25 pm 4-24-05: LA's InkaVote system tied to Malaysian gambling outfitadmin1 1 4-24-05 12:43 pm 4-20-2005: Paper trail advocates - The devil in the detailsadmin1 1 4-20-05 11:54 am 4-18-2005: Diebold Lobbyist Documents Reveal Problemsadmin1 1 4-18-05 9:54 am 3-8-2005: Hack of Real-Life Voting System Demonstratedadmin1 1 3-9-05 12:51 pm 2-22-2005: Activating the Eagles -- Events this weekend in Californiaadmin1 1 2-22-05 5:08 pm 2-21-2005: Snohomish County (WA) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 4:51 pm 2-21-2005: Orange County (FL) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 12:57 pm 2-21-2005: Broward County (FL) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 12:14 pm 2-21-2005: Palm Beach County (FL) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 11:04 am 2-21-2005: Volusia County (FL) Updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 7:02 am 2-1-2005: Black Box Voting donates $2000 to Ohio lawyersadmin1 1 2-1-05 2:51 pm 1-28-05: Eagles rolling up sleeves in Ohio, Florida, Californiaadmin1 1 1-28-05 6:30 am 1-20-05: BULLETIN: California Panel OKs Voter Privacy Removaladmin1 1 1-20-05 6:05 pm 1-18-05: Consumer Protection lawsuit activated against Dieboldadmin1 1 1-19-05 4:43 am 1-17-05: Black Box Voting Document Archiveadmin1 1 1-17-05 1:42 pm 1-10-05: Exposing the Crypto Solutionadmin1 1 1-11-05 6:20 am 1-6-05: Constitutional Equal Protection Amendment for Voters?admin1 1 1-11-05 6:15 am 1-5-05: Election Misconduct as a Public Records Crisisadmin1 1 1-11-05 6:10 am 1-5-05: Update from Washington D.C.admin1 1 1-11-05 6:01 am 12-30-2004: Volunteer Actions -- Activating the Eaglesadmin1 1 1-11-05 5:50 am 12-29-04: Update on 'Help America Audit'admin1 1 1-11-05 5:44 am 12-28-04: Update for donors, and a look to 2005admin1 1 1-11-05 5:35 am 11-18-2004: Volunteer actions -- How to 'Be the Media'admin1 1 1-11-05 5:56 am Start New Thread Mainstream News Reports Black Box Voting » Latest News » Mainstream News Reports « Previous Next » Thread Last Poster Posts Pages Last Post Dean Logan Says Unaffiliated WriteIns will be Checkedchristine c reid14 1 2-15-08 10:34 am New York Times re Holt BillV. Kurt Bellman26 1 2-8-08 1:57 pm AP Incorrectly calls Missouri for ClintonBill Bowen1 1 2-7-08 8:04 am San Fran CA-KSFO-AM reports Repub registration problemsNancy Tobi9 1 2-7-08 5:49 am Massachusetts results via your friends at LHSMike LaBonte10 1 2-7-08 5:24 am NJ Voting delay included Gov. CorzineMichael W Mather2 1 2-6-08 1:17 pm (CA) 2/08 - Voting machine probs delay Sacramento countPerry Duke9 1 2-5-08 6:34 pm (FL) 1/08 - More Florida voting machine problemsHal Guentert8 1 2-2-08 7:19 pm (FL) 1/08 - Final Florida results inkaren reineke11 1 2-1-08 4:25 pm (CO) 1/15 Democrats Ask Coffman to ResignFran Fleming1 1 2-1-08 9:41 am (FL) 1/08 - Problems already with voting machinesBev Harris 1 1 1-29-08 10:08 am (CO) Paper ballots win over RitterCatherine Ansbro3 1 1-29-08 2:16 am (MI) 12/07 - Proposition for new way to do primaries NEWS: Reform pres. candidate selection processCatherine Ansbro11 1 1-29-08 2:14 am Americans Abroad Can Now Vote Onlinesam lark7 1 1-26-08 3:49 pm (SC) 1/19/08 - Problems at polling locationsts taylor4 1 1-24-08 9:16 pm Feedback appreciated as this unfolds...Bruce Sims2 1 1-24-08 1:52 pm (Ohio) ACLU files suit to block paper ballots New paper ballots ca...Roger Wood20 2 1-20-08 9:43 pm REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER: Election Fraud RoundtableV. Kurt Bellman10 1 1-18-08 7:05 am (CO) Legislators lose their confidence in CoffmanCatherine Ansbro13 1 1-17-08 4:01 pm Olbermann Report !! On Voting Sue West6 1 1-17-08 3:53 pm GOP Figure Contracted to Deliver E-Voting Machines in MarylandAlex Laflamme1 1 1-17-08 9:43 am (NH) Experts skeptical of N.H. ballot-count conspiracy theoryBill Bowen60 1 1-16-08 10:37 pm Making votes countFran Fleming2 1 1-16-08 12:00 pm Ron Paul says in regard to New Hampshire voteDavid Evans1 1 1-13-08 8:32 am Diebold Changing its Buisness name Catherine Ansbro2 1 1-12-08 5:20 am (NH) 1/08 - Man plans recount of Republican vote in N.H. primary...Russell Novkov7 1 1-11-08 11:03 pm (TX) 10/07 - Another corrupt official, election tampering Refugio County - "Trust Me" failureCatherine Ansbro4 1 1-11-08 6:47 pm (FL) 9/07 - Volusia County again -- lots of defective memory cards... Volusia County - Voting system: Incident reportsWilliam Reese2 1 1-8-08 9:19 pm (FL) 10/07 - New machines, still not enough safeguards State of Florida - Voting systems: Transition to optical scan, issuesDon Powers2 1 1-8-08 12:00 am PC Magazine Article 09/12/07Don Powers2 1 1-7-08 10:45 pm (US) Can You Count On These Machines?Bev Harris 21 1 1-7-08 6:18 pm (US) Problems At Poll Permeate U.S. Political ProcessV. Kurt Bellman76 1 1-5-08 4:57 pm Legal Voters Thrown Off RollsV. Kurt Bellman7 1 1-3-08 11:15 am CNN: On the eve of Iowa caucus, some states give e-voting an 'F'...Russell Novkov2 1 1-2-08 3:42 pm (TX) 11/07 - Wharton County GOP will use paper ballots in primary... NEWS: Follow up on vote-flipping incidentLore2 1 1-1-08 3:35 pm (KY) 10/7 - Candidate for elections chief pleads guilty to forgery... Boone County - "Trust Me" FailureKathleen Wynne49 1 12-26-07 2:49 pm (US) 12/07 - FEC doors shut, 'No one left to answer phones'...Alan Brau4 1 12-25-07 8:29 pm (CO) 12/07 - Boulder: Stray marks caused decertificationBev Harris 1 1 12-23-07 9:49 pm (CO) 12/07 - Mesa: Commission defiant on vote machines NEWS: Resisting Colorado decertificationFran Fleming5 1 12-22-07 1:34 pm (AK) 12/07 - Impossible to tell whether 2004 count correct NEWS - Follow up on AZ Dem Party litigationBev Harris 1 1 12-21-07 7:05 am (CO) 12/07 - Denver: Voting gear out for count NEWS: Colo. decertification of Sequoia Julio Edwards1 1 12-18-07 6:41 am (US) 12/07 - Congressional watch tool for citizens PRESS RELEASE: New Freedom of Information toolBev Harris 1 1 12-11-07 7:20 am (PA) 11/07 - Philadelphia: Voter Fraud Allegations Again NEWS: Absentee ballot fraud allegationsV. Kurt Bellman21 1 12-7-07 2:02 pm (NJ) 12/07 - 'We are Neanderthals' - paper trail delayed again... NEWS: New Jersey paper trail statusBobby Arnold2 1 12-6-07 3:20 am (OH) 11/07 - Franklin County: Former elections official charged... NEWS: Election official corruptionBev Harris 2 1 12-2-07 7:50 am (OH) 11/07 - Township results flipped because of error (Lawrence Co... Lawrence County: Voting systems - Incident ReportBev Harris 4 1 11-23-07 2:00 pm (CT) 11/07 - Diebold/Premier machine miscount changes winner Greenwich: Voting systems - Incident reportsCatherine Ansbro4 1 11-23-07 1:47 pm (MS) 11/07 - New election ordered for Louise Linzy race Tunica County: Election incidentsBev Harris 1 1 11-22-07 9:05 pm (NH) 11/07 - It's official: Jan. 8 primary date State of New Hampshire: PrimariesBev Harris 1 1 11-22-07 8:28 pm (CA) 11/07 - Sec. State Bowen sues ES&S for $15 million State of California: Voting systems, ES&SBev Harris 3 1 11-21-07 9:09 pm (MI) 11/07 - It's back on: Mich. primary will proceed... State of Michigan: Primaries, Freedom of InformationBev Harris 1 1 11-21-07 10:38 am (MI) 11/07 - Michigan primary may not happen State of Michigan: Primaries, Freedom of Information Bev Harris 1 1 11-20-07 7:22 pm (NH) 11/07 - Pres primary date STILL not certain State of New Hampshire: PrimariesBev Harris 1 1 11-20-07 7:06 pm (OH) 11/07 - Provisionals may alter outcome Clermont County: Provisional ballotsBev Harris 1 1 11-19-07 5:54 pm (TX) 11/07 - Alteration of live election data in Harris County... Harris County: Voting systems, "Trust Me"Russell Novkov12 1 11-15-07 9:18 pm (US) 11/07 - Sequoia voting systems under new ownership US - VendorsBev Harris 1 1 11-9-07 6:39 am (OH) 11/07 - Polls open later in ES&S location Putnam County - Voting Machines: Incident ReportsPatricia Berg1 1 11-7-07 4:34 am (FL) 10/07 - Appeals court rules The People "moot" Sarasota County - LitigationBev Harris 1 1 11-2-07 8:02 am (CT) 10/07 - Candidate's company will transport voting machines... New Britain - Chain of CustodyBev Harris 1 1 10-29-07 11:22 am (IN) 10/07 - Polling locations reduced to four "vote centers"... Tippecanoe County - Access to PollsBev Harris 1 1 10-29-07 8:12 am (FL) 10/07 - Wrong Ballots Sent To Miami Absentee Voters Miami-Dade County - Absentee / Mail-in Incident ReportBrant Lamb13 1 10-22-07 11:34 am (PA) 10/07 - County replacing WinVote Lackawanna County - Voting systems: Procurement Alan Brau43 1 10-18-07 7:56 pm (US) 9/07 - E-vote industry massaging itself in the media Voting systems: Security / Chain of CustodyBev Harris 52 1 10-14-07 11:07 am (OH) 10/07 - A funeral for a presidential election State of Ohio - Compliance, enforcement issuesAlan Brau3 1 10-11-07 4:32 pm (FL) 10/07 - Peculiar excuses block accountability for primary Martin County - Compliance issue: Resisting paper trailBev Harris 1 1 10-11-07 7:12 am (TX) 9/07 - Hilarious but improper: video of lawmakers cheat-voting... State of Texas - Noncompliance, enforcement issues with legislator voting rulesBrant Lamb11 1 10-3-07 5:06 am (FL) 10/07 - FL-13 testing continues... Sarasota County - Voting system: Review & testing due to incident reportsRussell Novkov2 1 10-2-07 7:57 pm (IN) 10/07 - Belly-up vendor, in come different machines Randolph County - Voting systems: ProcurementBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:57 pm (FL) 10/07 - FL-13 report imminent Sarasota County - Voting system: Review & testing due to incident reportsBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:46 pm (US) 9/07 - If MS Excel bug = math errors, trust e-voting? US - Computer program: Incident reportBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:38 pm (NC) 9/07 - The registrar's secret lair Montgomery County - Chain of custodyBev Harris 1 1 10-1-07 4:12 pm (NJ) 9/07 - Judge stalls on paper trail Mercer County - Compliance issue: Resisting paper trailBev Harris 1 1 10-1-07 3:46 pm (US) 9/07 - Less than 1/2 of military overseas votes counted US - Absentee / mail-in voting: Incidents, access problemsBev Harris 6 1 9-30-07 3:17 pm (GA) 9/07 - What's the punishment for throwing out 93,000 voter reg... Fulton County - Chain of custody / Privacy protection issuesBev Harris 1 1 9-28-07 9:12 am (US) 9/07 - Gird for massive new voting machine purchases: New stan... US - Voting systems: Standards, certification, procurementBrant Lamb16 1 9-27-07 5:02 am (PA) 9/07 County Commissioners' Assocation Opposes HR811 State of Pennsylvania - LegislationSamuel Scharff32 1 9-24-07 11:29 pm (CT) 9/07 - Voting rights activists express disappointment at CT s... State of Connecticut - Voting systems: Security Catherine Ansbro2 1 9-22-07 6:36 pm (NV) 9/07 - County to "prove Sequioa machines are secure"... Washoe County - Voting systems: SecurityBev Harris 1 1 9-22-07 9:43 am (IL) 9/07 - Indictment: Teamster Union vote rigging Teamster's Union [Chicago] - "Trust Me" failureBev Harris 1 1 9-8-07 4:48 pm (US) 2007 National news archive (see state foru... 130 24 10-11-07 12:25 pm (US) 2006 National news archive (see state foru... 482 60 10-11-07 12:25 pm (US) 2005 National news archive (see state foru... 310 152 10-11-07 12:24 pm (US) 2004 National news archive (see state forums for state news)... 77 42 10-11-07 12:24 pm Start New Thread 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review Reviews Voted Most Helpful Votes are counted and displayed within 24 hours HM 1355196 37% Similar To You HM 1355196's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This is an excellent documentary that I think every American should see before they vote again. This is not a movie about Bush vs. Kerry or Republicans vs. Democrats. Its about our current voting system and exposing a multitude of problems with that system as demonstrated in the 2004 election. We are told "EVERY VOTE COUNTS" and this documentary exposes the corruption, mistruths, and shameful negligence and mishandling of these "VOTES" in a way that cannot be denied nor ignored - unless you don't watch it for yourself. 73 out of 78 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful TerBo 40% Similar To You TerBo's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This is a must-see documentary, especially for those still doubtful about whether elections in this country can be tampered with. The answer is yes, yes, yes!!! Kudos to Bev Harris who has dedicated years to exposing the corruption surrounding electronic voting. Get this. After Hacking Democracy's premiere on HBO, Harris received death threats. That's how risky and powerful her work is. 67 out of 77 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Shiftdnb 47% Similar To You Shiftdnb's other reviews > 4.0 Stars This is an amazing documentary showing that there are problems with the way we vote in America. When a normal everyday citizen gets up and challenges the system, you see how the system fights back. This woman doesn't give up like most of us would and shows us and one election official in Florida that the way our voting system was run and still is, has errors. 29 out of 36 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Most Recent Reviews SG 178412 23% Similar To You SG 178412's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Anyone who cares at all about the future of democracy in America (R or D or whatever else party affiliation you choose) NEEDS to see this movie. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful grw 970297 20% Similar To You grw 970297's other reviews > 5.0 Stars If our so-called government doesn't fix the problems exposed in this excellent documentary, our democracy no longer will exist. Abolish electronic voting machines!! I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Professional Bum 63% Similar To You Professional ...'s other reviews > 5.0 Stars If you are an American & have the ability to vote, please do yourself a favor and put this in your queue immediately(especially since this is an election year). This wonderful documentary proves my point that we have the best democracy that money can buy, along with our judicial system. This film is more frightening than any horror film I've seen, because THIS IS REAL! And this is movie biased? Not at all. It's an absolute eye opener that shows that your vote really doesn't count; and make sure you watch the deleted scenes(another 33 minutes of fantastic footage). 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews hawk5391 58% Similar To You hawk5391's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Even though I also watched the original slasher classic Black Christmas, this was the scariest movie I saw over the Christmas break. Although the filmmakers obviously have every reason to sensationalize potential problems with electronic voting systems ("good news is no news," right?), the implications here are frightening. Not only did Bev Harris (founder of a non-partisan watchdog group) find voting machine code unprotected on the internet, she was able to successfully hack it and prove that results could be manipulated (you can watch this being done in a matter of seconds in this film). The lack of oversight of the companies who control the majority of electronic voting is astounding, almost as bad as the sloppy manner in which our government oversees the elections themselves. 10 out of 10 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Cassun 53% Similar To You Cassun's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Probably the scariest movie I've watched in a long time. The production value isn't good, but its worth sitting through to find out just how easy it would be for just one person with an agenda to manipulate the outcome of an election. 9 out of 12 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful LR 572736 43% Similar To You LR 572736's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Politics in America is scarey enough, but when you see what is going on with our elections system, you will just go through the roof. We have hoped through the last few centuries that a government of the people, by the people and for the people would not parish from the face of the earth, and that America would be its shining example. After viewing this flick, you will realize just how tarnished our example has become. We have realized in the past decades, that money rules, and it just feels like our votes don't count, only the money that backs our politicians. Only the corporations and special interests have access to the politicians these days, not the people that vote. This picture goes a long way to explaining how that happens. After realizing the truths in this documentary, I feel even more helpless and useless to change a corrupt government by my vote. Did my vote get counted? How would I even know? The facts put forth in this program are just about incredible, but you come away realizing their powerful credibility. I wondered why their hasn't been criminal prosecution of the election fraud that is running rampant in our country today? Where are prosecuters? Why aren't elections officials who ignore our right to have our votes counted, recounter and certified being placed on trial for crimes against the electorate? You owe it to yourself and your country to see this documentary long before the next election. Don't miss this one! 8 out of 9 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful CP 1799900 36% Similar To You CP 1799900's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Wow. I just finished watching this documentary, and I can't believe what I heard and saw. This is not another Michael Moore speculative film that makes assumptions with no factual evidence. This is incredible. Everyone should see this film. It is truly an amazing look inside of our election system. 8 out of 9 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review SN 25968 62% Similar To You SN 25968's other reviews > 5.0 Stars We must all see this movie. It's not JUST about elections. It's about the undermining of our society, the breakdown. My opinion is that we should get away from secret voting and out into the public. Democracy is where WE THE PEOPLE elect our officials. You must see this to know why I write this. 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful JR 1824621 61% Similar To You JR 1824621's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This is what makes America great: a woman, with a full life, puts it all behind her because she has come across the ultimate injustice and knows that she must right it. This is the story of the creation of the group and webpage BlackBoxVoting.com Having found the Diebold's source code, a code that not even the President of the United States can see, Bev Harris takes the code to an expert. What is revealed causes Harris to criss cross America, to prove the fact that Diebold had literally hijacked democracy. Although it's possible, it's difficult to believe that anyone can think that the 2004 Presidential Election wasn't rigged after viewing this film. A 'must see' for every American. 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful PW 51% Similar To You PW's other reviews > 5.0 Stars One of the scariest movies I've ever seen... because it's true. If you liked 'All the presidents men' or 'The Insider' You'll like this movie. Actually come to think of it, what this story needs is a treatment like the above mentioned movies so the message could have a broader appeal beyond this documentary. 5 out of 6 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful FV 1232392 44% Similar To You FV 1232392's other reviews > 4.0 Stars Highly recommedable as the documentary reveals what we all have been suspecting and fearing in an objective and somewhat scientific way. It is quite timely, and I think we can all relate to the topic at hand. I was touched by the reaction of some of the people in the movie when they proved how the voting system can be hacked without much effort 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Steve Smith 38% Similar To You Steve Smith's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Unbelievable. That's how I describe this excellent documentary. Every citizen of the USA owes it to themselves to watch this documentary. It is just shocking. It calls into question everything we know about how our votes are recorded in this country. My jaw literally dropped when I saw one part of it. I won't ruin it for those who haven't seen it. You MUST watch this! 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Ben5765 35% Similar To You Ben5765's other reviews > 4.0 Stars This film is all about voting machines and how votes are tabulated. It makes mincemeat of the Diebold Corporation, manufacturer of a large percentage of the electronic voting machines used in the United States. It reveals Diebold officials making lie after lie about the security of their machines. The makers of the film meticulously document how, using Diebold's machines and data cards, someone with just a basic understanding of the technology involved (including, certainly, any Diebold employee) could rig the vote count, on one machine or on thousands of them, with absolutely no record that the rigging was ever done. The film also reveals how Diebold's chief executive officer was (and maybe still is) a large contributor to the Republican Party. He once wrote a letter stating that he would "deliver" Ohio's electoral votes in the 2004 presidential election for George W. Bush. The film later shows how his company managed to persuade Cuyahoga County, Ohio (where Cleveland is) to buy its machines. Maybe there is nothing fishy going on there, but appearances matter! Lest the film be seen as partisan, it features, among others, a Republican office-seeker from Louisiana who, after losing her race, went to view a demonstration of the machines that the voters used. As part of the demonstration she pressed the button next to her name, and the machine registered a vote for her opponent. Hmmm. She was understandably troubled. Moreover, the film points out that in many parts of the country it is in fact the local Republican Party that is wary of electronic voting machines, not the Democrats. Hacking Democracy also reveals problems with punch card voting systems--problems that dwarf the famous "hanging chad" problem of the 2000 presidential vote count in Florida. The film's message is distressing, but it is one all American citizens should hear and see. 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful AdriH 34% Similar To You AdriH's other reviews > 4.0 Stars Yes, the documentary could use a bit of editing, but the points raised are valid enough to keep it interesting. Instead of taking a partisan view on the movie, realize how intensly frightening this movie really is. Should it be just one grandmother's job to inform us how we're being duped? No. It's our responsibility as citizens to stay informed and demand voting accuracy. 5 out of 7 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful DM 1548398 12% Similar To You DM 1548398's other reviews > 4.0 Stars Frightening and timely documentary that exposes the very painful truth about the U.S. electoral system and vote count fraud. A must see if you plan to vote ever! 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful PM 748973 — —% Similar To You PM 748973's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This presentation should be shown to every high school junior and senior. Maybe they will be able to bring about the changes needed to restore our country to what it once was. Our democratic republic is long gone. 6 out of 6 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review Lee Anne and Tim 64% Similar To You Lee Anne and ...'s other reviews > 5.0 Stars Every voter should see this film. It leaves you with your head shaking, wondering how the history of the last 8 years might read if the vote-tampering exposed in Hacking Democracy hadnt been possible. Also a testament to how one regular person can make a difference, this documentary is very well done. Youll hate what you learn. 6 out of 10 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful yla 83539 39% Similar To You yla 83539's other reviews > 5.0 Stars SA 1674508, Yazheirx, JR 65420, RS 305556, their reviews are absolutely the threat that we all have about democracy. It is because their kind of ignorance that this movie is a 5 star and a must for every single human being to watch and learn. There is no excuse for any voting system to be too technical, too complex, too secret that we cannot prove what the votes were years from when the votes were taken. Not even 50 years, not even 100 years, not even 1000 years, not ever. For anyone to suggest that the electronic voting system is not possible to understand and to do a documentary for by a handful of heroic citizens, it is an insult to this country and democracy. Let these be the commandments of election: 1) No voting methods should be more complicated than what pen/pencil can do on a ballot. 2) Vote handling in any election process should be transparent to the public no matter when, why, how, what, who. 3) Only 100% accuracy should be accepted. Anything less then 100% should be recounted no matter how many times, how long it takes, and how much it cost to be 100% accurate. 4) Without 100% accuracy, election cannot be concluded. Another election should be conducted immediately without further delay. 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful ayi 554466 35% Similar To You ayi 554466's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Factual information clearly presented. I fear it is all too true and I fear for the next election. 5 out of 8 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful AL 1659593 33% Similar To You AL 1659593's other reviews > 2.0 Stars For content, I'd give it 3 stars. It was an eye-opening look at the problems at the flaws of the "touch screen" and memory card system. What turned me off was the overboard emotions and cheesy speeches from the women of the watchdog groups. 4 out of 6 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful TD 1852913 31% Similar To You TD 1852913's other reviews > 5.0 Stars I simply cannot believe this is true. I simply cannot believe the voting process is so secretive! I am still in High School and I could probably devise a system more secure than what every American trusts to count their votes! Every American owes it to themselves to watch this incredible docudrama of corporate greed, secrecy, corruption, and lies. Every American. 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful AK 817970 29% Similar To You AK 817970's other reviews > 5.0 Stars I would have to agree with everyone else in stating this a must see film for everyone. I was shocked and surprised at how poorly designed the electronic voting system is. How corrupt the political voting process is. Without this video no one would have seen the voting process. Watch this film you won't regret it. 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful jes 881880 26% Similar To You jes 881880's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Eye opening. My question is, "Why haven't criminal investigations been started?!?" I agree with the majority of the comments saying we should all see this movie; i would add it's imperative we do something with what we know after watching it. Hold our representitives accountable!!! 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful KS 608754 24% Similar To You KS 608754's other reviews > 5.0 Stars If this doesn't make people realize that we need to change how our elections are held, nothing will! Republicans and Democrats should be concerned...ALL AMERICANS should be concerned and angry. If any politician does not want to fix this system, that politician needs to leave their office. 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful PD 253868 22% Similar To You PD 253868's other reviews > 5.0 Stars I believe every citizen of voting age in the United States should view this film because it is very informative on the computerized voting systems across the country. After all, if our votes don't count we have no democracy. Watch this fim and tell your family, friends and co-workers to do the same! 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful xpf 1252893 12% Similar To You xpf 1252893's other reviews > 4.0 Stars The content is compelling and if even half of it is true, our democracy is very troubled. We need to demand truth and accuracy at the polls and we need to take action NOW! 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review DH 1154150 62% Similar To You DH 1154150's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Watch this movie. Tell your friends and family to watch this movie. The subjects are intelligent, articulate, and extremely courageous. This movie shows compelling evidence that makes me want to learn more about how easy it has been to alter the "results" of our government's elections, and ask what we can do to stop the fraud! 4 out of 7 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Yazheirx 57% Similar To You Yazheirx's other reviews > 2.0 Stars Like several other reviewers I wanted to like this movie but the spin and lack of solution suggestions prevented me. I agree with the need for more transparency with voting machines. I think we should have an open source voting program such that interest groups can spend their money to improve them. I still could not get past the spin. The final documentary cardinal sin for me is -
How many receipt-less voting machines are used nation-wide? Search:GEMS Diebold optical scan machines are being rigged for Bush Skull & Bones connection of Bush & Kerry: "Our Side (Race) won" Fraternity News (www.wikipedia.com_skull_and_bones) Poll Tapes thrown away - Against Federal Law (must be kept for 22 mos. by law) Hacking Democracy: Diebold (Voting Machine Software) Chairman 'promises' Vote for Ohio to G.W. Bush http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/114.html "Why weren't voting systems being tested for Security?" - I.T.A. Independent auditors of election software. Democracy: Can we trust systems that have no accountability? * With electronic voting machines tabulating more than 80 percent of the ballots cast in America, * Seattle grandmother Bev Harris set out to determine the obvious: Do they work? * Based on the evidence presented here, the answer is "not really" * The picture that emerges as Harris unearths a treasure trove of info about mishandled votes and the inner workings of the machines is that they're not only fallible but also highly vulnerable to hacking. http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/114.html * This wonderful documentary proves my point that we have the best democracy that money can buy * along with our judicial system. * This film is more frightening than any horror film I've seen, because THIS IS REAL! * And this is movie biased? * Not at all. * It's an absolute eye opener that shows that your vote really doesn't count; and make sure you watch the deleted scenes(another 33 minutes of fantastic footage). 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The Voting Rights Obstacle Course - And the winne...Tom Courbat12 1 6-2-07 11:25 am 5-17-07: You have 2 weeks to restore your inalienable right to kic...Brant Lamb42 1 6-5-07 5:12 am 5-11-07: Uh-Oh -- HAMMERTIME! John C. Ervin12 1 6-14-07 2:54 am 5-8-07: U.S. Experiment Ready to Sail (Holt Bill out of committee)...Brant Lamb4 1 5-11-07 12:28 pm 4-9-07: Two voting products combine to steal your political privacyJohn Washburn23 1 4-26-07 2:13 pm 3-27-07 - Elections give you: The judge, the prosecutor and the she...Bev Harris 49 1 6-7-07 6:32 am 3-14-07: Riverside Rides Again ...Bev Harris 7 1 4-9-07 8:13 pm 3-9-07: The Black Box Voting Web site is changingVickie Karp16 1 3-21-07 6:03 am 2-20-07: Voting machines as a Ponzi SchemeBev Harris 77 1 3-16-07 3:48 pm 2-14-07: America's Funny Valentine - What is this romance with mach...Troy Seman2 1 2-15-07 12:14 pm 2-13-07: Agreement among groups as to Essential Revisions to HR 811Bob Roberts15 2 3-2-07 9:44 pm 2-8-07: Beware of the Bandwagon -- A concise list of problems with ...John C. Ervin12 1 2-14-07 5:48 pm 2-7-07: The Vu Memos - Cuyahoga Elections Director conversations wi...Catherine Ansbro5 1 2-8-07 2:01 pm 2-7-07: Son of Holt Bill: TechnoElection Dream Come True (But is it...Catherine Ansbro22 1 2-10-07 6:14 pm 2-6-07: New Rush Holt Bill Bev Harris4 1 2-6-07 10:42 am 2-5-07: Convicted Ohio elections workers ask for new trialKathleen Wynne6 1 2-6-07 7:38 am 2-1-07: Arizona computer logs show cheat-peeks at results, days bef...Gentry Lange4 1 3-16-07 8:43 am 1-30-07: HAVA -- The road to Boondoggle was paved with good intenti...Brant Lamb18 1 2-5-07 5:13 am 1-24-07: Two Ohio election workers found guilty; supervisors get of...Brant Lamb19 1 1-31-07 7:40 am 1-22-07: Diebold voting machines cost $2,000 more (each) in New Ham...Bev Harris4 1 1-29-07 9:09 am 1-20-07: Reports from the front lines - Kathleen Wynne video 'Best ...Kathleen Wynne7 1 1-21-07 3:39 pm 1-9-07: Vendor issues raised in Ohio, New HampshireBev Harris3 1 1-10-07 2:55 pm 12-30-06: Sign the REQUEST BY VOTERS --- Dear American Patriot, Samuel Scharff21 1 1-12-07 1:44 pm 12-22-06: Let's get down to the root of the problem: Freedom of Acc...Bev Harris1 1 12-22-06 3:23 pm 12-5-06: Government rejects NIST recommendations for paper trailCatherine Ansbro25 1 12-9-06 1:32 pm 11-22-06: ES&S serves up a Texas Turkey - Voting system stuffed wit...Greg Bodovsky15 1 12-13-06 7:43 pm 11-21-06: ES&S problem hit 34 counties in TexasBrant Lamb7 1 2-15-07 5:50 am 11-20-06: Black Box Voting receives new legal threats from ES&SJeffrey Ortiz21 1 12-13-06 7:34 pm 11-14-06: Arizona manual audit a farceDan Oetting9 1 11-18-06 2:39 pm 11-13-06: Sarasota! Florida! Never doubt that a small group of comm...Pat Vesely19 1 11-22-06 11:26 pm 11-13-06: Yes, the files on Slashdot are legit.Bev Harris23 1 11-27-06 6:48 am 11-9-06: A quick update on doingsBob Dean15 2 11-14-06 6:08 am 11-8-06: Rumsfeld replacement (Robert Gates) was director of voting...Bev Harris 93 2 1-6-08 8:49 am 11-8-06: The Sarasota Anomaly: Some say this is a smoking gun:Catherine Ansbro18 1 11-19-06 3:11 am 11-8-06: Black Box Voting to help citizens audit VIRGINIARoberta McKnight19 1 11-10-06 5:36 pm 11-7-06: What to expect -- and look for -- in the 2006 electionJanine L. Busald8 1 11-9-06 1:09 am 11-6-06: Ohio professor facing retaliatory (criminal) charges for a...Catherine Ansbro10 1 11-14-06 6:07 am 11-2-06: HBO "Hacking Democracy" to air tonight -- REVIEWSChipman Budlong71 7 11-11-06 12:23 pm 10-31-06: Reports from the front lines -- Citizens find critical se...suzanne warden15 1 11-6-06 7:10 am 10-27-06: Absentee voting is NOT advisable; Problems, things you sh...Gentry Lange17 2 3-16-07 8:54 am 10-15-06: Now we're getting somewhere -- Congressional hand counted...k.c.10 1 11-3-06 6:11 pm 10-6-06: 'The sheer number of legal/security violations is horrifyi...Jim March2 1 10-9-06 10:48 am 10-1-06: One on One with Cynthia McKinney -- Evidence, procedural p...Bev Harris7 1 10-10-06 9:56 am 9-27-06: Riverside California - One of the "Top 2" WORST PLACES TO ...Ginny Ross7 1 9-28-06 6:55 am 9-25-06: One-on-One - Allegan County Michigan citizens uncover issuesCatherine Ansbro7 1 9-27-06 2:52 pm 9-13-06: Paper Ballots Gaining Momentum - Court Decision, New Guide...John Heath5 1 10-2-06 5:55 pm 9-12-06: Election problems in the Sept. 12 primariesBev Harris1 1 9-12-06 12:12 pm 8-31-06: Stoopidest Sleepover Security Ever: Black Box Voting blows...V. Kurt Bellman19 1 9-20-06 12:00 pm 8-28-06: One-on-One -- Witness to vote-flipping: What should I do?Brian S16 2 11-7-06 4:49 pm 8-14-06: One on One Advice Comes Alive: How to stage an eventLinda Franz2 1 8-14-06 9:08 pm 8-11-06: One-on-One Advice Comes Alive Brant Lamb12 1 8-15-06 4:26 am 8-1-06: NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOUR 2 CENTS: Citizen Tool Kit to Take ...Dan Oetting73 2 8-26-06 5:42 pm 7-31-06: Georgia, Maryland Touch-screens -- New security defect evi...Jim March19 1 8-2-06 12:39 pm 7-27-06: Expensive, Insecure, Illegal, Unqualified and UnauditedRon Hammar12 2 8-26-06 4:32 pm 7-21-06: BBV EXCLUSIVE - Cuyahoga B.o.E. members call for Director ...John Washburn26 1 8-5-06 10:40 am 7-18-06: Georgia Election Malfunctions - Gird yourself for action, ...Brant Lamb24 1 9-5-06 4:46 am 7-17-06: The World's Quietest News Story: Kennedy Files Voting Mach...Linda Rogers4 1 7-29-06 9:07 am 7-10-06: Kentucky litigation - 'When computers fear jail, they'll b...Jenny L. Hurley6 1 7-12-06 8:37 am 07-08-06: Citizen Oversight - Pay Special Attention to Missing ItemsJody Holder19 1 7-12-06 4:20 pm 7-04-06: Black Box Voting's Declaration of IndependenceBev Harris19 1 7-15-06 1:40 pm Fourth of July Fireworks: Unredacted Hursti reports, photos releasedBrant Lamb44 1 7-12-06 5:20 am 6-27-06: Whatever happens in Utah elections - Capture on camera, audioV. Kurt Bellman11 1 6-29-06 10:44 am 6-26-06: The ultimate insult: Paper ballots entered into touch-screensTom Courbat16 1 6-28-06 1:42 pm 6-22-06: A 'Plan B' for voting machines: The National Hand Count Re...Bev Harris7 1 6-24-06 11:43 am 6-15-06: Solutions through citizen oversightBrant Lamb52 1 7-25-06 7:19 pm 6-12-06: Trouble seeks trouble - King County elections chief goes t...Tom Courbat8 1 6-21-06 6:08 pm 6-6-06: Hear the train a'comin' , Comin' round the bendBrant Lamb12 1 6-9-06 10:14 am 6-5-06: Citizens -- Here's how to watchdog electionBev Harris13 1 6-6-06 12:37 pm 5-23-06: Supplmental report adds new concerns to Hursti IIBev Harris51 1 7-1-06 10:49 am 5-19-06: Substitute 'L' for 'D' - Diebold claims Utah tests failed...Kathleen Wynne16 1 6-27-06 6:26 am 5-11-06: Three-level security flaws found in Diebold touch-screensRobert Sawdey182 1 6-7-06 11:52 am 5-10-06: Update on TSx reportCatherine Ansbro5 1 5-11-06 4:47 pm 5-10-06: As the Emery County findings evolve: Diebold's and Georgia...Joseph Hall5 1 5-11-06 2:15 pm 5-9-06: The Ohio Election BackwashAdele Eisner34 1 8-2-06 3:26 pm 5-4-06: Touch-screens fail security tests, Diebold retaliatessuhkara a yahweh`16 1 5-9-06 9:15 pm 5-4-06: Your chance to get evidence: WV, NE, KY, OR, PABev Harris1 1 5-4-06 9:13 am 5-2-06: Is the 2006 election train still on its tracks?John Washburn26 1 5-12-06 3:29 pm 4-24-06: Diebold whistleblower Stephen Heller compared to Daniel El...Russell Novkov2 1 4-24-06 3:06 pm 4-13-06: Last transcript - Calif. ITA hearings.John Washburn3 1 4-14-06 9:20 am 4-8-06: Why the Rush Holt bill (H.B. 550) is dangerousJonathan104 1 5-16-06 2:46 am 4-6-06: Utah Lt. Governor's office admits: some Diebold serial numb...ed hill32 1 4-10-06 7:24 pm 4-5-06: Transcript: Wyle Labs thinks Hursti Hack means 'the system ...John Washburn11 1 4-6-06 7:59 am 4-4-06: More Voting Machine Test Lab TranscriptsBev Harris12 1 4-6-06 11:32 pm 4-3-06: ALERT - elections officials: Diebold making 'visits' to you...Bruce Sims5 1 4-4-06 11:08 am 3-31-06: Bravissima! Calif. Senate Elections Committee grills two ...Catherine Ansbro28 1 4-12-06 1:59 pm 3-29-06: FL Attorney General Hits Voting Machine Vendors With Inves...Bev Harris4 1 3-30-06 10:39 am 3-28-06: BBV EXCLUSIVE - Diebold attempts to explain TSx memory def...Bev Harris34 1 4-3-06 9:17 am 03-18-06: BBV EXCLUSIVE - Diebold TSx touch-screen study (Part I)...Joseph Hall50 1 4-7-06 10:29 am 3-17-2006: New Black Box Voting report to be issued on Diebold TSx ...Jody Holder11 1 3-19-06 11:34 pm 3-11-06: The Stephen Heller Legal Defense FundJohn Washburn6 1 3-12-06 8:23 pm 3-8-06: Ion Sancho pits his lawyers against DieboldPat Vesely10 1 3-14-06 2:02 pm 3-3-06: While Florida vindicates Ion Sancho, Jeb Bush threatens Sa...Daniel R Spak29 1 3-19-06 5:45 pm 2-28-06: Take action NOW: Bullies pounding on whistleblowerRobert Sawdey11 1 3-9-06 5:47 pm 2-23-06: Someone accessed 40 Palm Beach County voting machines Nov ...Bev Harris110 1 3-9-06 7:30 am 2-21-06: An open letter to Bruce McPherson and the citizens of the ...Joycelynn Straight22 1 2-27-06 9:01 pm 2-17-06: BREAKING: Calif. Sec. State certifies entire Diebold produ...Bev Harris52 1 4-3-06 10:20 am 2-17-06: Election family tree: Who got us into this and how did the...Catherine Ansbro4 1 3-30-06 10:40 am 2-11-06: Voting machine examiners chickening out on Senate investig...Ron Crane24 1 2-18-06 1:27 pm 2-6-06: Landes takes e-voting to Supreme CourtV. Kurt Bellman24 1 4-19-06 10:33 am 2-6-06: Diebold agrees to waive proprietary claims to GEMS database...Marian Beddill12 1 2-11-06 1:38 pm 2-5-06: What protects your personal information once it enters e-el...Paul Lehto70 1 7-21-06 1:17 pm 2-2-06: Embezzler Jeff Dean remote accessed Calif. counties for 200...Kathleen Wynne4 1 2-2-06 8:38 am 2-1-06: Voting system examiners blocked from telling what they know?Byron Hale21 1 2-6-06 3:16 am 1-31-06: Diebold anticipates $100 to $125 million in 2006 voting sy...Bev Harris1 1 1-31-06 8:56 am 1-26-06: Elections Programmer Jeff Dean worked for same firm as for...Bev Harris25 1 1-27-06 12:45 pm 1-24-06: Public Records Get The Big Chill: Alaska's Voters vs Diebo...Jim March5 1 1-31-06 2:29 pm 1-13-06: ES&S reneges on Leon County deal 2 days before HAVA deadl...Catherine Ansbro33 1 1-17-06 1:20 am 1-9-2006: DuPage County Elections paid $30,000 to Republican politi...Bev Harris12 1 2-3-06 8:20 am 1-5-06: Wisconsin moves toward public source, then guts itJohn Washburn10 1 1-5-06 4:21 pm 1-3-2006: Hold on to your lugnuts, ES&S and Sequoia may risk Hurst...Brant Lamb33 1 1-25-06 4:56 am 12-30-05: Roll up your sleeves, we ain't done yet!BBV Admin1 1 12-30-05 4:26 pm 12-28-2005: Pennsylvania declines some Diebold but reveals an odd biasArnold Peckerman24 1 12-31-05 2:17 pm 12-23-05: ES&S under fire in CaliforniaEdward Robles5 1 12-26-05 5:36 am 12-20-05: California 'Hack' test stalled as Diebold certification d...Brant Lamb116 1 1-25-06 1:27 pm 12-13-05: Devastating hack proven - Leon County dumps DieboldSamuel Scharff97 1 5-29-06 9:25 pm 12-9-05: Diebold hack test -- Sec. State / Black Box lawyer square offJim March6 1 12-12-05 3:01 pm 12-7-05: Diebold stockholder suit - here's some ammoJim March7 1 12-8-05 9:37 am 12-4-05: 'Leave it up to us, we know best' say officialsBBV Admin27 2 12-15-05 4:17 am 11-30-05: Nope, the hack test won't be todayCatherine Ansbro25 1 1-3-06 12:51 am 11-28-05: Latest on California hack situationBruce Sims45 1 11-30-05 4:40 pm 11-24-05: Turkey Day leftovers: No thanks for stuffing elections wi...Edward Robles2 1 11-27-05 7:55 am 11-23-05: Flag on the play - Calif. Sec. State official calls foul ...Catherine Ansbro17 1 11-29-05 10:18 am 11-22-05: California invites Black Box Voting to hack Diebold votin...John Washburn31 1 12-9-05 8:23 am 11-22-2005: Updates on felons - Jeffrey Dean and John ElderBBV Admin7 1 11-22-05 9:37 am 11-21-05: Diebold violates court orderBBV Admin10 1 11-28-05 8:27 am 11-18-05: Fasten your seatbelts - It's time to bring this thing in ...Edward Robles7 1 11-27-05 9:12 am 11-15-05: FEC Investigating rapper P. Diddy (but not Blackwell or M...Edward Robles5 1 11-27-05 9:16 am 11-13-05: Detroit, Michigan elections are now a significant concernBBV Admin11 1 11-23-05 5:16 am 11-9-05: Los Angeles County has the dog & pony show downEdward Robles2 1 11-27-05 9:33 am 11-8-05: Share your observations on voting today hereKathleen Wynne10 1 11-10-05 9:15 am 11-6-05: Two state elections heads resign in FloridaBBV Admin6 1 11-6-05 5:11 am 11-4-05: Mail-in votes at higher risk with Diebold systemsBBV Admin1 1 11-4-05 8:00 am 11-3-05: The first public examination under the 15004 lawJohn Washburn5 1 11-6-05 6:41 am 10-28-05: Blackwell Blunders on Voting Machine ExaminationJohn Washburn14 1 10-31-05 11:23 am 10-26-05: The 'Perimeter Defense' - Follies and FailuresBBV Admin7 1 10-31-05 3:57 pm 10-21-05: GAO & NIST - Voting machine security finally goes mainstr...From the Mailbag10 1 10-29-05 11:39 am 10-9-05: VotoScope audit tool will catch Hart Intercivic bugBev Harris22 1 10-12-05 1:06 pm 10-8-05: Investors considering Diebold class action suitBev Harris1 1 10-8-05 3:08 pm 10-5-05: Diebold Lies Move Up the LadderBev Harris5 1 10-8-05 3:21 pm 9-19-2005: Carter-Baker Panel Report: Proposed Reforms Miss the BoatBrad Friedman52 1 10-3-05 12:02 pm 9-10-2005: Here's your chance to 'Look inside the Black Box':...alex baxter21 1 11-1-05 4:23 am 9-7-2005: Digital Image ballot scanners -- good or bad?Brant Lamb19 1 10-5-05 4:41 am 8-25-2005: Voting Rights Act expiration 2007Admin3 1 8-25-05 9:56 am 8-15-05: Election Reform -- Impending ShuffleCatherine_a107 1 8-25-05 1:51 pm 8-13-2005: If this doesn't get your blood boiling...Ubetchaiam9 1 8-15-05 11:24 am 8-10-2005: Mississippi Paper Trail ImminentCatherine Ansbro18 1 12-14-05 2:47 am 8-9-2005: Exactly what we don't want: Our election on Diebold's ser...John Howard13 1 10-5-05 8:20 pm 8-8-2005: Arcata, (CA) seeks to wrest election control from corpora...jimmarch6 1 8-12-05 12:33 am 8-5-05: 'Think Outside the Black Box' - ONLINE THINK TANK Admin5 1 8-17-05 7:46 am 8-3-05: San Diego backs down on charges against BBV director Jim MarchUbetchaiam32 1 8-22-05 12:01 pm 7-29-2005: Mississippi, listen up: California just rejected the TSxadmin17 1 8-13-05 8:15 pm 7-28-05: In his own words: Jim March on taking back his civil rightsmymarkx11 1 7-29-05 11:46 am 7-26-2005: BBV Board Member Arrested in San Diego for Viewing Vote-...cleanbean63 1 7-29-05 4:17 pm 7-25-2005: Wondering about mail-in voting? Diebold's new VoteRemote...Catherine Ansbro28 1 3-30-06 12:43 pm 7-21-2005: ES&S, Diebold lobbyists had ties to bribery investigatio...mary_ann9 1 7-31-05 12:00 am 7-20-2005: Internal documents reveal more Diebold ethics problemsadmin4 1 7-20-05 7:24 am 7-18-2005: Are The Lights Going Out In Georgia?admin5 1 7-22-05 3:14 pm 7-17-2005: Gallina (Diebold) reportedly paid Blackwell, GOP cronies...admin1 1 7-17-05 12:07 pm 7-11-2005: Case Against Diebold and Florida Division of Electionskathleen_wynne3 1 7-13-05 9:32 am 7-4-2005: The Black Box ReportJohn Dean36 1 5-8-06 6:05 pm 7-3-2005: Diebold accounting mistake -- SEC stuff may be a biggieadmin11 1 7-4-05 10:58 pm 7-1-2005: July 4 Security Alert for Diebold Optical Scanscatherine_a17 1 7-5-05 1:29 am 6-24-2005: Black Box Voting Litigation Fund LaunchedBev Harris2 1 2-3-06 8:22 am 6-17-05: Report on Calif. meeting -- Decertify Diebold?ubetchaiam11 1 7-21-05 2:37 pm 6-8-2005: Palm Beach County fails auditlinda_franz7 1 6-15-05 8:29 am 5-27-05: Optical scan system hacked (3 ways) - BBV ExclusiveBrant Lamb73 1 8-9-06 11:06 am 5-9-05: Consumer Report Series -- Following the Money Trail – Part Iadmin1 1 5-9-05 3:18 pm 5-6-04: $45m (Diebold?) contract flying under radar in Cook County ...admin2 1 5-6-05 2:53 pm 5-11-05: CANCELLED - Call to action May 19, Sacramentoadmin1 1 5-6-05 11:05 am 5-04-05 – Easier Hacking Access Sneaks in w. ADA Compliance Measuresadmin1 1 5-4-05 9:25 pm 4-24-05: LA's InkaVote system tied to Malaysian gambling outfitadmin1 1 4-24-05 12:43 pm 4-20-2005: Paper trail advocates - The devil in the detailsadmin1 1 4-20-05 11:54 am 4-18-2005: Diebold Lobbyist Documents Reveal Problemsadmin1 1 4-18-05 9:54 am 3-8-2005: Hack of Real-Life Voting System Demonstratedadmin1 1 3-9-05 12:51 pm 2-22-2005: Activating the Eagles -- Events this weekend in Californiaadmin1 1 2-22-05 5:08 pm 2-21-2005: Snohomish County (WA) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 4:51 pm 2-21-2005: Orange County (FL) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 12:57 pm 2-21-2005: Broward County (FL) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 12:14 pm 2-21-2005: Palm Beach County (FL) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 11:04 am 2-21-2005: Volusia County (FL) Updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 7:02 am 2-1-2005: Black Box Voting donates $2000 to Ohio lawyersadmin1 1 2-1-05 2:51 pm 1-28-05: Eagles rolling up sleeves in Ohio, Florida, Californiaadmin1 1 1-28-05 6:30 am 1-20-05: BULLETIN: California Panel OKs Voter Privacy Removaladmin1 1 1-20-05 6:05 pm 1-18-05: Consumer Protection lawsuit activated against Dieboldadmin1 1 1-19-05 4:43 am 1-17-05: Black Box Voting Document Archiveadmin1 1 1-17-05 1:42 pm 1-10-05: Exposing the Crypto Solutionadmin1 1 1-11-05 6:20 am 1-6-05: Constitutional Equal Protection Amendment for Voters?admin1 1 1-11-05 6:15 am 1-5-05: Election Misconduct as a Public Records Crisisadmin1 1 1-11-05 6:10 am 1-5-05: Update from Washington D.C.admin1 1 1-11-05 6:01 am 12-30-2004: Volunteer Actions -- Activating the Eaglesadmin1 1 1-11-05 5:50 am 12-29-04: Update on 'Help America Audit'admin1 1 1-11-05 5:44 am 12-28-04: Update for donors, and a look to 2005admin1 1 1-11-05 5:35 am 11-18-2004: Volunteer actions -- How to 'Be the Media'admin1 1 1-11-05 5:56 am Start New Thread Mainstream News Reports Black Box Voting » Latest News » Mainstream News Reports « Previous Next » Thread Last Poster Posts Pages Last Post Dean Logan Says Unaffiliated WriteIns will be Checkedchristine c reid14 1 2-15-08 10:34 am New York Times re Holt BillV. Kurt Bellman26 1 2-8-08 1:57 pm AP Incorrectly calls Missouri for ClintonBill Bowen1 1 2-7-08 8:04 am San Fran CA-KSFO-AM reports Repub registration problemsNancy Tobi9 1 2-7-08 5:49 am Massachusetts results via your friends at LHSMike LaBonte10 1 2-7-08 5:24 am NJ Voting delay included Gov. CorzineMichael W Mather2 1 2-6-08 1:17 pm (CA) 2/08 - Voting machine probs delay Sacramento countPerry Duke9 1 2-5-08 6:34 pm (FL) 1/08 - More Florida voting machine problemsHal Guentert8 1 2-2-08 7:19 pm (FL) 1/08 - Final Florida results inkaren reineke11 1 2-1-08 4:25 pm (CO) 1/15 Democrats Ask Coffman to ResignFran Fleming1 1 2-1-08 9:41 am (FL) 1/08 - Problems already with voting machinesBev Harris 1 1 1-29-08 10:08 am (CO) Paper ballots win over RitterCatherine Ansbro3 1 1-29-08 2:16 am (MI) 12/07 - Proposition for new way to do primaries NEWS: Reform pres. candidate selection processCatherine Ansbro11 1 1-29-08 2:14 am Americans Abroad Can Now Vote Onlinesam lark7 1 1-26-08 3:49 pm (SC) 1/19/08 - Problems at polling locationsts taylor4 1 1-24-08 9:16 pm Feedback appreciated as this unfolds...Bruce Sims2 1 1-24-08 1:52 pm (Ohio) ACLU files suit to block paper ballots New paper ballots ca...Roger Wood20 2 1-20-08 9:43 pm REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER: Election Fraud RoundtableV. Kurt Bellman10 1 1-18-08 7:05 am (CO) Legislators lose their confidence in CoffmanCatherine Ansbro13 1 1-17-08 4:01 pm Olbermann Report !! On Voting Sue West6 1 1-17-08 3:53 pm GOP Figure Contracted to Deliver E-Voting Machines in MarylandAlex Laflamme1 1 1-17-08 9:43 am (NH) Experts skeptical of N.H. ballot-count conspiracy theoryBill Bowen60 1 1-16-08 10:37 pm Making votes countFran Fleming2 1 1-16-08 12:00 pm Ron Paul says in regard to New Hampshire voteDavid Evans1 1 1-13-08 8:32 am Diebold Changing its Buisness name Catherine Ansbro2 1 1-12-08 5:20 am (NH) 1/08 - Man plans recount of Republican vote in N.H. primary...Russell Novkov7 1 1-11-08 11:03 pm (TX) 10/07 - Another corrupt official, election tampering Refugio County - "Trust Me" failureCatherine Ansbro4 1 1-11-08 6:47 pm (FL) 9/07 - Volusia County again -- lots of defective memory cards... Volusia County - Voting system: Incident reportsWilliam Reese2 1 1-8-08 9:19 pm (FL) 10/07 - New machines, still not enough safeguards State of Florida - Voting systems: Transition to optical scan, issuesDon Powers2 1 1-8-08 12:00 am PC Magazine Article 09/12/07Don Powers2 1 1-7-08 10:45 pm (US) Can You Count On These Machines?Bev Harris 21 1 1-7-08 6:18 pm (US) Problems At Poll Permeate U.S. Political ProcessV. Kurt Bellman76 1 1-5-08 4:57 pm Legal Voters Thrown Off RollsV. Kurt Bellman7 1 1-3-08 11:15 am CNN: On the eve of Iowa caucus, some states give e-voting an 'F'...Russell Novkov2 1 1-2-08 3:42 pm (TX) 11/07 - Wharton County GOP will use paper ballots in primary... NEWS: Follow up on vote-flipping incidentLore2 1 1-1-08 3:35 pm (KY) 10/7 - Candidate for elections chief pleads guilty to forgery... Boone County - "Trust Me" FailureKathleen Wynne49 1 12-26-07 2:49 pm (US) 12/07 - FEC doors shut, 'No one left to answer phones'...Alan Brau4 1 12-25-07 8:29 pm (CO) 12/07 - Boulder: Stray marks caused decertificationBev Harris 1 1 12-23-07 9:49 pm (CO) 12/07 - Mesa: Commission defiant on vote machines NEWS: Resisting Colorado decertificationFran Fleming5 1 12-22-07 1:34 pm (AK) 12/07 - Impossible to tell whether 2004 count correct NEWS - Follow up on AZ Dem Party litigationBev Harris 1 1 12-21-07 7:05 am (CO) 12/07 - Denver: Voting gear out for count NEWS: Colo. decertification of Sequoia Julio Edwards1 1 12-18-07 6:41 am (US) 12/07 - Congressional watch tool for citizens PRESS RELEASE: New Freedom of Information toolBev Harris 1 1 12-11-07 7:20 am (PA) 11/07 - Philadelphia: Voter Fraud Allegations Again NEWS: Absentee ballot fraud allegationsV. Kurt Bellman21 1 12-7-07 2:02 pm (NJ) 12/07 - 'We are Neanderthals' - paper trail delayed again... NEWS: New Jersey paper trail statusBobby Arnold2 1 12-6-07 3:20 am (OH) 11/07 - Franklin County: Former elections official charged... NEWS: Election official corruptionBev Harris 2 1 12-2-07 7:50 am (OH) 11/07 - Township results flipped because of error (Lawrence Co... Lawrence County: Voting systems - Incident ReportBev Harris 4 1 11-23-07 2:00 pm (CT) 11/07 - Diebold/Premier machine miscount changes winner Greenwich: Voting systems - Incident reportsCatherine Ansbro4 1 11-23-07 1:47 pm (MS) 11/07 - New election ordered for Louise Linzy race Tunica County: Election incidentsBev Harris 1 1 11-22-07 9:05 pm (NH) 11/07 - It's official: Jan. 8 primary date State of New Hampshire: PrimariesBev Harris 1 1 11-22-07 8:28 pm (CA) 11/07 - Sec. State Bowen sues ES&S for $15 million State of California: Voting systems, ES&SBev Harris 3 1 11-21-07 9:09 pm (MI) 11/07 - It's back on: Mich. primary will proceed... State of Michigan: Primaries, Freedom of InformationBev Harris 1 1 11-21-07 10:38 am (MI) 11/07 - Michigan primary may not happen State of Michigan: Primaries, Freedom of Information Bev Harris 1 1 11-20-07 7:22 pm (NH) 11/07 - Pres primary date STILL not certain State of New Hampshire: PrimariesBev Harris 1 1 11-20-07 7:06 pm (OH) 11/07 - Provisionals may alter outcome Clermont County: Provisional ballotsBev Harris 1 1 11-19-07 5:54 pm (TX) 11/07 - Alteration of live election data in Harris County... Harris County: Voting systems, "Trust Me"Russell Novkov12 1 11-15-07 9:18 pm (US) 11/07 - Sequoia voting systems under new ownership US - VendorsBev Harris 1 1 11-9-07 6:39 am (OH) 11/07 - Polls open later in ES&S location Putnam County - Voting Machines: Incident ReportsPatricia Berg1 1 11-7-07 4:34 am (FL) 10/07 - Appeals court rules The People "moot" Sarasota County - LitigationBev Harris 1 1 11-2-07 8:02 am (CT) 10/07 - Candidate's company will transport voting machines... New Britain - Chain of CustodyBev Harris 1 1 10-29-07 11:22 am (IN) 10/07 - Polling locations reduced to four "vote centers"... Tippecanoe County - Access to PollsBev Harris 1 1 10-29-07 8:12 am (FL) 10/07 - Wrong Ballots Sent To Miami Absentee Voters Miami-Dade County - Absentee / Mail-in Incident ReportBrant Lamb13 1 10-22-07 11:34 am (PA) 10/07 - County replacing WinVote Lackawanna County - Voting systems: Procurement Alan Brau43 1 10-18-07 7:56 pm (US) 9/07 - E-vote industry massaging itself in the media Voting systems: Security / Chain of CustodyBev Harris 52 1 10-14-07 11:07 am (OH) 10/07 - A funeral for a presidential election State of Ohio - Compliance, enforcement issuesAlan Brau3 1 10-11-07 4:32 pm (FL) 10/07 - Peculiar excuses block accountability for primary Martin County - Compliance issue: Resisting paper trailBev Harris 1 1 10-11-07 7:12 am (TX) 9/07 - Hilarious but improper: video of lawmakers cheat-voting... State of Texas - Noncompliance, enforcement issues with legislator voting rulesBrant Lamb11 1 10-3-07 5:06 am (FL) 10/07 - FL-13 testing continues... Sarasota County - Voting system: Review & testing due to incident reportsRussell Novkov2 1 10-2-07 7:57 pm (IN) 10/07 - Belly-up vendor, in come different machines Randolph County - Voting systems: ProcurementBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:57 pm (FL) 10/07 - FL-13 report imminent Sarasota County - Voting system: Review & testing due to incident reportsBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:46 pm (US) 9/07 - If MS Excel bug = math errors, trust e-voting? US - Computer program: Incident reportBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:38 pm (NC) 9/07 - The registrar's secret lair Montgomery County - Chain of custodyBev Harris 1 1 10-1-07 4:12 pm (NJ) 9/07 - Judge stalls on paper trail Mercer County - Compliance issue: Resisting paper trailBev Harris 1 1 10-1-07 3:46 pm (US) 9/07 - Less than 1/2 of military overseas votes counted US - Absentee / mail-in voting: Incidents, access problemsBev Harris 6 1 9-30-07 3:17 pm (GA) 9/07 - What's the punishment for throwing out 93,000 voter reg... Fulton County - Chain of custody / Privacy protection issuesBev Harris 1 1 9-28-07 9:12 am (US) 9/07 - Gird for massive new voting machine purchases: New stan... US - Voting systems: Standards, certification, procurementBrant Lamb16 1 9-27-07 5:02 am (PA) 9/07 County Commissioners' Assocation Opposes HR811 State of Pennsylvania - LegislationSamuel Scharff32 1 9-24-07 11:29 pm (CT) 9/07 - Voting rights activists express disappointment at CT s... State of Connecticut - Voting systems: Security Catherine Ansbro2 1 9-22-07 6:36 pm (NV) 9/07 - County to "prove Sequioa machines are secure"... Washoe County - Voting systems: SecurityBev Harris 1 1 9-22-07 9:43 am (IL) 9/07 - Indictment: Teamster Union vote rigging Teamster's Union [Chicago] - "Trust Me" failureBev Harris 1 1 9-8-07 4:48 pm (US) 2007 National news archive (see state foru... 130 24 10-11-07 12:25 pm (US) 2006 National news archive (see state foru... 482 60 10-11-07 12:25 pm (US) 2005 National news archive (see state foru... 310 152 10-11-07 12:24 pm (US) 2004 National news archive (see state forums for state news)... 77 42 10-11-07 12:24 pm Start New Thread 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review Reviews Voted Most Helpful Votes are counted and displayed within 24 hours HM 1355196 37% Similar To You HM 1355196's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This is an excellent documentary that I think every American should see before they vote again. This is not a movie about Bush vs. Kerry or Republicans vs. Democrats. Its about our current voting system and exposing a multitude of problems with that system as demonstrated in the 2004 election. We are told "EVERY VOTE COUNTS" and this documentary exposes the corruption, mistruths, and shameful negligence and mishandling of these "VOTES" in a way that cannot be denied nor ignored - unless you don't watch it for yourself. 73 out of 78 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful TerBo 40% Similar To You TerBo's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This is a must-see documentary, especially for those still doubtful about whether elections in this country can be tampered with. The answer is yes, yes, yes!!! Kudos to Bev Harris who has dedicated years to exposing the corruption surrounding electronic voting. Get this. After Hacking Democracy's premiere on HBO, Harris received death threats. That's how risky and powerful her work is. 67 out of 77 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Shiftdnb 47% Similar To You Shiftdnb's other reviews > 4.0 Stars This is an amazing documentary showing that there are problems with the way we vote in America. When a normal everyday citizen gets up and challenges the system, you see how the system fights back. This woman doesn't give up like most of us would and shows us and one election official in Florida that the way our voting system was run and still is, has errors. 29 out of 36 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Most Recent Reviews SG 178412 23% Similar To You SG 178412's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Anyone who cares at all about the future of democracy in America (R or D or whatever else party affiliation you choose) NEEDS to see this movie. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful grw 970297 20% Similar To You grw 970297's other reviews > 5.0 Stars If our so-called government doesn't fix the problems exposed in this excellent documentary, our democracy no longer will exist. Abolish electronic voting machines!! I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Professional Bum 63% Similar To You Professional ...'s other reviews > 5.0 Stars If you are an American & have the ability to vote, please do yourself a favor and put this in your queue immediately(especially since this is an election year). This wonderful documentary proves my point that we have the best democracy that money can buy, along with our judicial system. This film is more frightening than any horror film I've seen, because THIS IS REAL! And this is movie biased? Not at all. It's an absolute eye opener that shows that your vote really doesn't count; and make sure you watch the deleted scenes(another 33 minutes of fantastic footage). 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews hawk5391 58% Similar To You hawk5391's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Even though I also watched the original slasher classic Black Christmas, this was the scariest movie I saw over the Christmas break. Although the filmmakers obviously have every reason to sensationalize potential problems with electronic voting systems ("good news is no news," right?), the implications here are frightening. Not only did Bev Harris (founder of a non-partisan watchdog group) find voting machine code unprotected on the internet, she was able to successfully hack it and prove that results could be manipulated (you can watch this being done in a matter of seconds in this film). The lack of oversight of the companies who control the majority of electronic voting is astounding, almost as bad as the sloppy manner in which our government oversees the elections themselves. 10 out of 10 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Cassun 53% Similar To You Cassun's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Probably the scariest movie I've watched in a long time. The production value isn't good, but its worth sitting through to find out just how easy it would be for just one person with an agenda to manipulate the outcome of an election. 9 out of 12 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful LR 572736 43% Similar To You LR 572736's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Politics in America is scarey enough, but when you see what is going on with our elections system, you will just go through the roof. We have hoped through the last few centuries that a government of the people, by the people and for the people would not parish from the face of the earth, and that America would be its shining example. After viewing this flick, you will realize just how tarnished our example has become. We have realized in the past decades, that money rules, and it just feels like our votes don't count, only the money that backs our politicians. Only the corporations and special interests have access to the politicians these days, not the people that vote. This picture goes a long way to explaining how that happens. After realizing the truths in this documentary, I feel even more helpless and useless to change a corrupt government by my vote. Did my vote get counted? How would I even know? The facts put forth in this program are just about incredible, but you come away realizing their powerful credibility. I wondered why their hasn't been criminal prosecution of the election fraud that is running rampant in our country today? Where are prosecuters? Why aren't elections officials who ignore our right to have our votes counted, recounter and certified being placed on trial for crimes against the electorate? You owe it to yourself and your country to see this documentary long before the next election. Don't miss this one! 8 out of 9 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful CP 1799900 36% Similar To You CP 1799900's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Wow. I just finished watching this documentary, and I can't believe what I heard and saw. This is not another Michael Moore speculative film that makes assumptions with no factual evidence. This is incredible. Everyone should see this film. It is truly an amazing look inside of our election system. 8 out of 9 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review SN 25968 62% Similar To You SN 25968's other reviews > 5.0 Stars We must all see this movie. It's not JUST about elections. It's about the undermining of our society, the breakdown. My opinion is that we should get away from secret voting and out into the public. Democracy is where WE THE PEOPLE elect our officials. You must see this to know why I write this. 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful JR 1824621 61% Similar To You JR 1824621's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This is what makes America great: a woman, with a full life, puts it all behind her because she has come across the ultimate injustice and knows that she must right it. This is the story of the creation of the group and webpage BlackBoxVoting.com Having found the Diebold's source code, a code that not even the President of the United States can see, Bev Harris takes the code to an expert. What is revealed causes Harris to criss cross America, to prove the fact that Diebold had literally hijacked democracy. Although it's possible, it's difficult to believe that anyone can think that the 2004 Presidential Election wasn't rigged after viewing this film. A 'must see' for every American. 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful PW 51% Similar To You PW's other reviews > 5.0 Stars One of the scariest movies I've ever seen... because it's true. If you liked 'All the presidents men' or 'The Insider' You'll like this movie. Actually come to think of it, what this story needs is a treatment like the above mentioned movies so the message could have a broader appeal beyond this documentary. 5 out of 6 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful FV 1232392 44% Similar To You FV 1232392's other reviews > 4.0 Stars Highly recommedable as the documentary reveals what we all have been suspecting and fearing in an objective and somewhat scientific way. It is quite timely, and I think we can all relate to the topic at hand. I was touched by the reaction of some of the people in the movie when they proved how the voting system can be hacked without much effort 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Steve Smith 38% Similar To You Steve Smith's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Unbelievable. That's how I describe this excellent documentary. Every citizen of the USA owes it to themselves to watch this documentary. It is just shocking. It calls into question everything we know about how our votes are recorded in this country. My jaw literally dropped when I saw one part of it. I won't ruin it for those who haven't seen it. You MUST watch this! 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Ben5765 35% Similar To You Ben5765's other reviews > 4.0 Stars This film is all about voting machines and how votes are tabulated. It makes mincemeat of the Diebold Corporation, manufacturer of a large percentage of the electronic voting machines used in the United States. It reveals Diebold officials making lie after lie about the security of their machines. The makers of the film meticulously document how, using Diebold's machines and data cards, someone with just a basic understanding of the technology involved (including, certainly, any Diebold employee) could rig the vote count, on one machine or on thousands of them, with absolutely no record that the rigging was ever done. The film also reveals how Diebold's chief executive officer was (and maybe still is) a large contributor to the Republican Party. He once wrote a letter stating that he would "deliver" Ohio's electoral votes in the 2004 presidential election for George W. Bush. The film later shows how his company managed to persuade Cuyahoga County, Ohio (where Cleveland is) to buy its machines. Maybe there is nothing fishy going on there, but appearances matter! Lest the film be seen as partisan, it features, among others, a Republican office-seeker from Louisiana who, after losing her race, went to view a demonstration of the machines that the voters used. As part of the demonstration she pressed the button next to her name, and the machine registered a vote for her opponent. Hmmm. She was understandably troubled. Moreover, the film points out that in many parts of the country it is in fact the local Republican Party that is wary of electronic voting machines, not the Democrats. Hacking Democracy also reveals problems with punch card voting systems--problems that dwarf the famous "hanging chad" problem of the 2000 presidential vote count in Florida. The film's message is distressing, but it is one all American citizens should hear and see. 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful AdriH 34% Similar To You AdriH's other reviews > 4.0 Stars Yes, the documentary could use a bit of editing, but the points raised are valid enough to keep it interesting. Instead of taking a partisan view on the movie, realize how intensly frightening this movie really is. Should it be just one grandmother's job to inform us how we're being duped? No. It's our responsibility as citizens to stay informed and demand voting accuracy. 5 out of 7 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful DM 1548398 12% Similar To You DM 1548398's other reviews > 4.0 Stars Frightening and timely documentary that exposes the very painful truth about the U.S. electoral system and vote count fraud. A must see if you plan to vote ever! 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful PM 748973 — —% Similar To You PM 748973's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This presentation should be shown to every high school junior and senior. Maybe they will be able to bring about the changes needed to restore our country to what it once was. Our democratic republic is long gone. 6 out of 6 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review Lee Anne and Tim 64% Similar To You Lee Anne and ...'s other reviews > 5.0 Stars Every voter should see this film. It leaves you with your head shaking, wondering how the history of the last 8 years might read if the vote-tampering exposed in Hacking Democracy hadnt been possible. Also a testament to how one regular person can make a difference, this documentary is very well done. Youll hate what you learn. 6 out of 10 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful yla 83539 39% Similar To You yla 83539's other reviews > 5.0 Stars SA 1674508, Yazheirx, JR 65420, RS 305556, their reviews are absolutely the threat that we all have about democracy. It is because their kind of ignorance that this movie is a 5 star and a must for every single human being to watch and learn. There is no excuse for any voting system to be too technical, too complex, too secret that we cannot prove what the votes were years from when the votes were taken. Not even 50 years, not even 100 years, not even 1000 years, not ever. For anyone to suggest that the electronic voting system is not possible to understand and to do a documentary for by a handful of heroic citizens, it is an insult to this country and democracy. Let these be the commandments of election: 1) No voting methods should be more complicated than what pen/pencil can do on a ballot. 2) Vote handling in any election process should be transparent to the public no matter when, why, how, what, who. 3) Only 100% accuracy should be accepted. Anything less then 100% should be recounted no matter how many times, how long it takes, and how much it cost to be 100% accurate. 4) Without 100% accuracy, election cannot be concluded. Another election should be conducted immediately without further delay. 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful ayi 554466 35% Similar To You ayi 554466's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Factual information clearly presented. I fear it is all too true and I fear for the next election. 5 out of 8 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful AL 1659593 33% Similar To You AL 1659593's other reviews > 2.0 Stars For content, I'd give it 3 stars. It was an eye-opening look at the problems at the flaws of the "touch screen" and memory card system. What turned me off was the overboard emotions and cheesy speeches from the women of the watchdog groups. 4 out of 6 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful TD 1852913 31% Similar To You TD 1852913's other reviews > 5.0 Stars I simply cannot believe this is true. I simply cannot believe the voting process is so secretive! I am still in High School and I could probably devise a system more secure than what every American trusts to count their votes! Every American owes it to themselves to watch this incredible docudrama of corporate greed, secrecy, corruption, and lies. Every American. 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful AK 817970 29% Similar To You AK 817970's other reviews > 5.0 Stars I would have to agree with everyone else in stating this a must see film for everyone. I was shocked and surprised at how poorly designed the electronic voting system is. How corrupt the political voting process is. Without this video no one would have seen the voting process. Watch this film you won't regret it. 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful jes 881880 26% Similar To You jes 881880's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Eye opening. My question is, "Why haven't criminal investigations been started?!?" I agree with the majority of the comments saying we should all see this movie; i would add it's imperative we do something with what we know after watching it. Hold our representitives accountable!!! 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful KS 608754 24% Similar To You KS 608754's other reviews > 5.0 Stars If this doesn't make people realize that we need to change how our elections are held, nothing will! Republicans and Democrats should be concerned...ALL AMERICANS should be concerned and angry. If any politician does not want to fix this system, that politician needs to leave their office. 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful PD 253868 22% Similar To You PD 253868's other reviews > 5.0 Stars I believe every citizen of voting age in the United States should view this film because it is very informative on the computerized voting systems across the country. After all, if our votes don't count we have no democracy. Watch this fim and tell your family, friends and co-workers to do the same! 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful xpf 1252893 12% Similar To You xpf 1252893's other reviews > 4.0 Stars The content is compelling and if even half of it is true, our democracy is very troubled. We need to demand truth and accuracy at the polls and we need to take action NOW! 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review DH 1154150 62% Similar To You DH 1154150's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Watch this movie. Tell your friends and family to watch this movie. The subjects are intelligent, articulate, and extremely courageous. This movie shows compelling evidence that makes me want to learn more about how easy it has been to alter the "results" of our government's elections, and ask what we can do to stop the fraud! 4 out of 7 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Yazheirx 57% Similar To You Yazheirx's other reviews > 2.0 Stars Like several other reviewers I wanted to like this movie but the spin and lack of solution suggestions prevented me. I agree with the need for more transparency with voting machines. I think we should have an open source voting program such that interest groups can spend their money to improve them. I still could not get past the spin. The final documentary cardinal sin for me is -
How many receipt-less voting machines are used nation-wide? Search:GEMS Diebold optical scan machines are being rigged for Bush Skull & Bones connection of Bush & Kerry: "Our Side (Race) won" Fraternity News (www.wikipedia.com_skull_and_bones) Poll Tapes thrown away - Against Federal Law (must be kept for 22 mos. by law) Hacking Democracy: Diebold (Voting Machine Software) Chairman 'promises' Vote for Ohio to G.W. Bush http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/114.html "Why weren't voting systems being tested for Security?" - I.T.A. Independent auditors of election software. Democracy: Can we trust systems that have no accountability? * With electronic voting machines tabulating more than 80 percent of the ballots cast in America, * Seattle grandmother Bev Harris set out to determine the obvious: Do they work? * Based on the evidence presented here, the answer is "not really" * The picture that emerges as Harris unearths a treasure trove of info about mishandled votes and the inner workings of the machines is that they're not only fallible but also highly vulnerable to hacking. http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/114.html * This wonderful documentary proves my point that we have the best democracy that money can buy * along with our judicial system. * This film is more frightening than any horror film I've seen, because THIS IS REAL! * And this is movie biased? * Not at all. * It's an absolute eye opener that shows that your vote really doesn't count; and make sure you watch the deleted scenes(another 33 minutes of fantastic footage). 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NEWS: New Jersey paper trail statusBobby Arnold2 1 12-6-07 3:20 am (OH) 11/07 - Franklin County: Former elections official charged... NEWS: Election official corruptionBev Harris 2 1 12-2-07 7:50 am (OH) 11/07 - Township results flipped because of error (Lawrence Co... Lawrence County: Voting systems - Incident ReportBev Harris 4 1 11-23-07 2:00 pm (CT) 11/07 - Diebold/Premier machine miscount changes winner Greenwich: Voting systems - Incident reportsCatherine Ansbro4 1 11-23-07 1:47 pm (MS) 11/07 - New election ordered for Louise Linzy race Tunica County: Election incidentsBev Harris 1 1 11-22-07 9:05 pm (NH) 11/07 - It's official: Jan. 8 primary date State of New Hampshire: PrimariesBev Harris 1 1 11-22-07 8:28 pm (CA) 11/07 - Sec. State Bowen sues ES&S for $15 million State of California: Voting systems, ES&SBev Harris 3 1 11-21-07 9:09 pm (MI) 11/07 - It's back on: Mich. primary will proceed... State of Michigan: Primaries, Freedom of InformationBev Harris 1 1 11-21-07 10:38 am (MI) 11/07 - Michigan primary may not happen State of Michigan: Primaries, Freedom of Information Bev Harris 1 1 11-20-07 7:22 pm (NH) 11/07 - Pres primary date STILL not certain State of New Hampshire: PrimariesBev Harris 1 1 11-20-07 7:06 pm (OH) 11/07 - Provisionals may alter outcome Clermont County: Provisional ballotsBev Harris 1 1 11-19-07 5:54 pm (TX) 11/07 - Alteration of live election data in Harris County... Harris County: Voting systems, "Trust Me"Russell Novkov12 1 11-15-07 9:18 pm (US) 11/07 - Sequoia voting systems under new ownership US - VendorsBev Harris 1 1 11-9-07 6:39 am (OH) 11/07 - Polls open later in ES&S location Putnam County - Voting Machines: Incident ReportsPatricia Berg1 1 11-7-07 4:34 am (FL) 10/07 - Appeals court rules The People "moot" Sarasota County - LitigationBev Harris 1 1 11-2-07 8:02 am (CT) 10/07 - Candidate's company will transport voting machines... New Britain - Chain of CustodyBev Harris 1 1 10-29-07 11:22 am (IN) 10/07 - Polling locations reduced to four "vote centers"... Tippecanoe County - Access to PollsBev Harris 1 1 10-29-07 8:12 am (FL) 10/07 - Wrong Ballots Sent To Miami Absentee Voters Miami-Dade County - Absentee / Mail-in Incident ReportBrant Lamb13 1 10-22-07 11:34 am (PA) 10/07 - County replacing WinVote Lackawanna County - Voting systems: Procurement Alan Brau43 1 10-18-07 7:56 pm (US) 9/07 - E-vote industry massaging itself in the media Voting systems: Security / Chain of CustodyBev Harris 52 1 10-14-07 11:07 am (OH) 10/07 - A funeral for a presidential election State of Ohio - Compliance, enforcement issuesAlan Brau3 1 10-11-07 4:32 pm (FL) 10/07 - Peculiar excuses block accountability for primary Martin County - Compliance issue: Resisting paper trailBev Harris 1 1 10-11-07 7:12 am (TX) 9/07 - Hilarious but improper: video of lawmakers cheat-voting... State of Texas - Noncompliance, enforcement issues with legislator voting rulesBrant Lamb11 1 10-3-07 5:06 am (FL) 10/07 - FL-13 testing continues... Sarasota County - Voting system: Review & testing due to incident reportsRussell Novkov2 1 10-2-07 7:57 pm (IN) 10/07 - Belly-up vendor, in come different machines Randolph County - Voting systems: ProcurementBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:57 pm (FL) 10/07 - FL-13 report imminent Sarasota County - Voting system: Review & testing due to incident reportsBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:46 pm (US) 9/07 - If MS Excel bug = math errors, trust e-voting? US - Computer program: Incident reportBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:38 pm (NC) 9/07 - The registrar's secret lair Montgomery County - Chain of custodyBev Harris 1 1 10-1-07 4:12 pm (NJ) 9/07 - Judge stalls on paper trail Mercer County - Compliance issue: Resisting paper trailBev Harris 1 1 10-1-07 3:46 pm (US) 9/07 - Less than 1/2 of military overseas votes counted US - Absentee / mail-in voting: Incidents, access problemsBev Harris 6 1 9-30-07 3:17 pm (GA) 9/07 - What's the punishment for throwing out 93,000 voter reg... Fulton County - Chain of custody / Privacy protection issuesBev Harris 1 1 9-28-07 9:12 am (US) 9/07 - Gird for massive new voting machine purchases: New stan... US - Voting systems: Standards, certification, procurementBrant Lamb16 1 9-27-07 5:02 am (PA) 9/07 County Commissioners' Assocation Opposes HR811 State of Pennsylvania - LegislationSamuel Scharff32 1 9-24-07 11:29 pm (CT) 9/07 - Voting rights activists express disappointment at CT s... State of Connecticut - Voting systems: Security Catherine Ansbro2 1 9-22-07 6:36 pm (NV) 9/07 - County to "prove Sequioa machines are secure"... Washoe County - Voting systems: SecurityBev Harris 1 1 9-22-07 9:43 am (IL) 9/07 - Indictment: Teamster Union vote rigging Teamster's Union [Chicago] - "Trust Me" failureBev Harris 1 1 9-8-07 4:48 pm (US) 2007 National news archive (see state foru... 130 24 10-11-07 12:25 pm (US) 2006 National news archive (see state foru... 482 60 10-11-07 12:25 pm (US) 2005 National news archive (see state foru... 310 152 10-11-07 12:24 pm (US) 2004 National news archive (see state forums for state news)... 77 42 10-11-07 12:24 pm Start New Thread http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/1954.html Thread Last Poster Posts Pages Last Post 2-5-08: What to watch for -- and do -- during & after Super Power T...allenfly15 1 2-12-08 12:32 am 1-29-08: Citizen's Guide to Following Vote Transport VehiclesJoel Morine31 1 2-10-08 7:18 am 1-29-08: Questions unfolding throughout New HampshireB Lindsey57 1 2-12-08 5:53 pm 1-24-08: Now posting - New Hampshire video evidenceNancy Tobi47 1 1-31-08 6:59 am 1-20-08: Holes hidden in plain sightCatherine Ansbro77 1 1-27-08 11:24 am 1-17-08: Ballot boxes found slit; NH stops putting ballots in vault; christine c reid264 1 2-13-08 8:21 pm 1-16-08: How New Hampshire is sizing upBrant Lamb172 1 2-4-08 4:39 am 1-15-08: Can recount chain of custody be rescued?Michael W Mather29 1 1-17-08 9:02 pm 1-12-08: Red Flags over New HampshireBrant Lamb153 1 1-22-08 4:41 am 1-10-08: Kucinich stepping into trap with recount?Catherine Ansbro138 1 1-15-08 12:56 pm 1-9-08: New England voting machine firm has executive criminal recordrush40 1 1-17-08 8:37 am 1-7-08: Silvestro the Cat & New Hampshire ElectionsBrett Woodward161 1 1-14-08 11:36 am 1-4-08: Eh? Iowa Republicans STILL missing 65 precincts in resultsJoel Morine41 1 1-9-08 4:04 am 1-3-08: What to do! Iowa Caucus instructions for everyoneChism Haworth26 1 1-4-08 3:09 pm 12-30-07: New problems identified with Iowa caucuses!David Luebbers48 1 1-13-08 4:16 am 12-14-07: UPDATE on Iowa Caucus ProceduresBev Harris 14 1 1-1-08 7:21 pm 11-29-07: MOONSHINE AMERICA – Collapse of the "Trust Me" modelJohn Dean15 1 1-13-08 1:06 pm 11-12-07: Unauthorized vote alterations on Texas iVotronic voting m...Bev Harris 8 1 11-16-07 4:06 pm 10-4-07: Connecticut Mayoral Scuffle Bev Harris 8 1 10-11-07 2:40 pm 9-19-07: Moonshine Elections 2 - Family Run GovermentJim March3 1 9-26-07 12:54 am 9-6-07: Moonshine Elections - The Hunt for Joe BoltonCatherine Ansbro15 1 9-14-07 9:36 pm 8-14-07: Moonshine Elections - Kentucky seriesBev Harris 4 1 9-14-07 7:38 am 8-3-07: California Decertifies, Boots InkaVote out of L.A. for goodBev Harris 15 1 8-6-07 1:31 pm 7-30-07: An Open Letter to Calif. Secretary of State BowenMark E. Smith18 1 8-7-07 9:33 am 7-17-07: HBO film on secret vote counting gets Emmy nominationRussell Novkov2 1 7-17-07 8:12 pm 7-13-07: Riverside proud to be dropped from "Top 2 Worst Places to ...Bev Harris 1 1 7-13-07 12:20 pm 7-12-07: California court may punish county for election records de...Russell Novkov2 1 7-12-07 9:04 pm 7-5-07: Debate w. a Chair #3: Will new elections "audits" help or h...Brant Lamb187 1 8-2-07 4:24 am 7-2-07: A preview on the audit debateV. Kurt Bellman62 1 7-7-07 1:39 pm 6-29-07: Debate with a Chair #2: Is no bill worse than a flawed bill?Udar Koschka35 2 7-21-07 6:04 am 6-28-07: Debate with a Chair (Part 1)Catherine Ansbro33 1 10-14-07 9:56 am 6-25-07: New Hampshire Sec. State rebukes attack on NH campaign fin...Bruce Sims12 1 6-27-07 10:39 am 6-10-07: Kucinich abandons support; for Holt Bill HR 811Catherine Ansbro13 1 6-24-07 2:30 am 5-30-07: (Calif.) The Voting Rights Obstacle Course - And the winne...Tom Courbat12 1 6-2-07 11:25 am 5-17-07: You have 2 weeks to restore your inalienable right to kic...Brant Lamb42 1 6-5-07 5:12 am 5-11-07: Uh-Oh -- HAMMERTIME! John C. Ervin12 1 6-14-07 2:54 am 5-8-07: U.S. Experiment Ready to Sail (Holt Bill out of committee)...Brant Lamb4 1 5-11-07 12:28 pm 4-9-07: Two voting products combine to steal your political privacyJohn Washburn23 1 4-26-07 2:13 pm 3-27-07 - Elections give you: The judge, the prosecutor and the she...Bev Harris 49 1 6-7-07 6:32 am 3-14-07: Riverside Rides Again ...Bev Harris 7 1 4-9-07 8:13 pm 3-9-07: The Black Box Voting Web site is changingVickie Karp16 1 3-21-07 6:03 am 2-20-07: Voting machines as a Ponzi SchemeBev Harris 77 1 3-16-07 3:48 pm 2-14-07: America's Funny Valentine - What is this romance with mach...Troy Seman2 1 2-15-07 12:14 pm 2-13-07: Agreement among groups as to Essential Revisions to HR 811Bob Roberts15 2 3-2-07 9:44 pm 2-8-07: Beware of the Bandwagon -- A concise list of problems with ...John C. Ervin12 1 2-14-07 5:48 pm 2-7-07: The Vu Memos - Cuyahoga Elections Director conversations wi...Catherine Ansbro5 1 2-8-07 2:01 pm 2-7-07: Son of Holt Bill: TechnoElection Dream Come True (But is it...Catherine Ansbro22 1 2-10-07 6:14 pm 2-6-07: New Rush Holt Bill Bev Harris4 1 2-6-07 10:42 am 2-5-07: Convicted Ohio elections workers ask for new trialKathleen Wynne6 1 2-6-07 7:38 am 2-1-07: Arizona computer logs show cheat-peeks at results, days bef...Gentry Lange4 1 3-16-07 8:43 am 1-30-07: HAVA -- The road to Boondoggle was paved with good intenti...Brant Lamb18 1 2-5-07 5:13 am 1-24-07: Two Ohio election workers found guilty; supervisors get of...Brant Lamb19 1 1-31-07 7:40 am 1-22-07: Diebold voting machines cost $2,000 more (each) in New Ham...Bev Harris4 1 1-29-07 9:09 am 1-20-07: Reports from the front lines - Kathleen Wynne video 'Best ...Kathleen Wynne7 1 1-21-07 3:39 pm 1-9-07: Vendor issues raised in Ohio, New HampshireBev Harris3 1 1-10-07 2:55 pm 12-30-06: Sign the REQUEST BY VOTERS --- Dear American Patriot, Samuel Scharff21 1 1-12-07 1:44 pm 12-22-06: Let's get down to the root of the problem: Freedom of Acc...Bev Harris1 1 12-22-06 3:23 pm 12-5-06: Government rejects NIST recommendations for paper trailCatherine Ansbro25 1 12-9-06 1:32 pm 11-22-06: ES&S serves up a Texas Turkey - Voting system stuffed wit...Greg Bodovsky15 1 12-13-06 7:43 pm 11-21-06: ES&S problem hit 34 counties in TexasBrant Lamb7 1 2-15-07 5:50 am 11-20-06: Black Box Voting receives new legal threats from ES&SJeffrey Ortiz21 1 12-13-06 7:34 pm 11-14-06: Arizona manual audit a farceDan Oetting9 1 11-18-06 2:39 pm 11-13-06: Sarasota! Florida! Never doubt that a small group of comm...Pat Vesely19 1 11-22-06 11:26 pm 11-13-06: Yes, the files on Slashdot are legit.Bev Harris23 1 11-27-06 6:48 am 11-9-06: A quick update on doingsBob Dean15 2 11-14-06 6:08 am 11-8-06: Rumsfeld replacement (Robert Gates) was director of voting...Bev Harris 93 2 1-6-08 8:49 am 11-8-06: The Sarasota Anomaly: Some say this is a smoking gun:Catherine Ansbro18 1 11-19-06 3:11 am 11-8-06: Black Box Voting to help citizens audit VIRGINIARoberta McKnight19 1 11-10-06 5:36 pm 11-7-06: What to expect -- and look for -- in the 2006 electionJanine L. Busald8 1 11-9-06 1:09 am 11-6-06: Ohio professor facing retaliatory (criminal) charges for a...Catherine Ansbro10 1 11-14-06 6:07 am 11-2-06: HBO "Hacking Democracy" to air tonight -- REVIEWSChipman Budlong71 7 11-11-06 12:23 pm 10-31-06: Reports from the front lines -- Citizens find critical se...suzanne warden15 1 11-6-06 7:10 am 10-27-06: Absentee voting is NOT advisable; Problems, things you sh...Gentry Lange17 2 3-16-07 8:54 am 10-15-06: Now we're getting somewhere -- Congressional hand counted...k.c.10 1 11-3-06 6:11 pm 10-6-06: 'The sheer number of legal/security violations is horrifyi...Jim March2 1 10-9-06 10:48 am 10-1-06: One on One with Cynthia McKinney -- Evidence, procedural p...Bev Harris7 1 10-10-06 9:56 am 9-27-06: Riverside California - One of the "Top 2" WORST PLACES TO ...Ginny Ross7 1 9-28-06 6:55 am 9-25-06: One-on-One - Allegan County Michigan citizens uncover issuesCatherine Ansbro7 1 9-27-06 2:52 pm 9-13-06: Paper Ballots Gaining Momentum - Court Decision, New Guide...John Heath5 1 10-2-06 5:55 pm 9-12-06: Election problems in the Sept. 12 primariesBev Harris1 1 9-12-06 12:12 pm 8-31-06: Stoopidest Sleepover Security Ever: Black Box Voting blows...V. Kurt Bellman19 1 9-20-06 12:00 pm 8-28-06: One-on-One -- Witness to vote-flipping: What should I do?Brian S16 2 11-7-06 4:49 pm 8-14-06: One on One Advice Comes Alive: How to stage an eventLinda Franz2 1 8-14-06 9:08 pm 8-11-06: One-on-One Advice Comes Alive Brant Lamb12 1 8-15-06 4:26 am 8-1-06: NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOUR 2 CENTS: Citizen Tool Kit to Take ...Dan Oetting73 2 8-26-06 5:42 pm 7-31-06: Georgia, Maryland Touch-screens -- New security defect evi...Jim March19 1 8-2-06 12:39 pm 7-27-06: Expensive, Insecure, Illegal, Unqualified and UnauditedRon Hammar12 2 8-26-06 4:32 pm 7-21-06: BBV EXCLUSIVE - Cuyahoga B.o.E. members call for Director ...John Washburn26 1 8-5-06 10:40 am 7-18-06: Georgia Election Malfunctions - Gird yourself for action, ...Brant Lamb24 1 9-5-06 4:46 am 7-17-06: The World's Quietest News Story: Kennedy Files Voting Mach...Linda Rogers4 1 7-29-06 9:07 am 7-10-06: Kentucky litigation - 'When computers fear jail, they'll b...Jenny L. Hurley6 1 7-12-06 8:37 am 07-08-06: Citizen Oversight - Pay Special Attention to Missing ItemsJody Holder19 1 7-12-06 4:20 pm 7-04-06: Black Box Voting's Declaration of IndependenceBev Harris19 1 7-15-06 1:40 pm Fourth of July Fireworks: Unredacted Hursti reports, photos releasedBrant Lamb44 1 7-12-06 5:20 am 6-27-06: Whatever happens in Utah elections - Capture on camera, audioV. Kurt Bellman11 1 6-29-06 10:44 am 6-26-06: The ultimate insult: Paper ballots entered into touch-screensTom Courbat16 1 6-28-06 1:42 pm 6-22-06: A 'Plan B' for voting machines: The National Hand Count Re...Bev Harris7 1 6-24-06 11:43 am 6-15-06: Solutions through citizen oversightBrant Lamb52 1 7-25-06 7:19 pm 6-12-06: Trouble seeks trouble - King County elections chief goes t...Tom Courbat8 1 6-21-06 6:08 pm 6-6-06: Hear the train a'comin' , Comin' round the bendBrant Lamb12 1 6-9-06 10:14 am 6-5-06: Citizens -- Here's how to watchdog electionBev Harris13 1 6-6-06 12:37 pm 5-23-06: Supplmental report adds new concerns to Hursti IIBev Harris51 1 7-1-06 10:49 am 5-19-06: Substitute 'L' for 'D' - Diebold claims Utah tests failed...Kathleen Wynne16 1 6-27-06 6:26 am 5-11-06: Three-level security flaws found in Diebold touch-screensRobert Sawdey182 1 6-7-06 11:52 am 5-10-06: Update on TSx reportCatherine Ansbro5 1 5-11-06 4:47 pm 5-10-06: As the Emery County findings evolve: Diebold's and Georgia...Joseph Hall5 1 5-11-06 2:15 pm 5-9-06: The Ohio Election BackwashAdele Eisner34 1 8-2-06 3:26 pm 5-4-06: Touch-screens fail security tests, Diebold retaliatessuhkara a yahweh`16 1 5-9-06 9:15 pm 5-4-06: Your chance to get evidence: WV, NE, KY, OR, PABev Harris1 1 5-4-06 9:13 am 5-2-06: Is the 2006 election train still on its tracks?John Washburn26 1 5-12-06 3:29 pm 4-24-06: Diebold whistleblower Stephen Heller compared to Daniel El...Russell Novkov2 1 4-24-06 3:06 pm 4-13-06: Last transcript - Calif. ITA hearings.John Washburn3 1 4-14-06 9:20 am 4-8-06: Why the Rush Holt bill (H.B. 550) is dangerousJonathan104 1 5-16-06 2:46 am 4-6-06: Utah Lt. Governor's office admits: some Diebold serial numb...ed hill32 1 4-10-06 7:24 pm 4-5-06: Transcript: Wyle Labs thinks Hursti Hack means 'the system ...John Washburn11 1 4-6-06 7:59 am 4-4-06: More Voting Machine Test Lab TranscriptsBev Harris12 1 4-6-06 11:32 pm 4-3-06: ALERT - elections officials: Diebold making 'visits' to you...Bruce Sims5 1 4-4-06 11:08 am 3-31-06: Bravissima! Calif. Senate Elections Committee grills two ...Catherine Ansbro28 1 4-12-06 1:59 pm 3-29-06: FL Attorney General Hits Voting Machine Vendors With Inves...Bev Harris4 1 3-30-06 10:39 am 3-28-06: BBV EXCLUSIVE - Diebold attempts to explain TSx memory def...Bev Harris34 1 4-3-06 9:17 am 03-18-06: BBV EXCLUSIVE - Diebold TSx touch-screen study (Part I)...Joseph Hall50 1 4-7-06 10:29 am 3-17-2006: New Black Box Voting report to be issued on Diebold TSx ...Jody Holder11 1 3-19-06 11:34 pm 3-11-06: The Stephen Heller Legal Defense FundJohn Washburn6 1 3-12-06 8:23 pm 3-8-06: Ion Sancho pits his lawyers against DieboldPat Vesely10 1 3-14-06 2:02 pm 3-3-06: While Florida vindicates Ion Sancho, Jeb Bush threatens Sa...Daniel R Spak29 1 3-19-06 5:45 pm 2-28-06: Take action NOW: Bullies pounding on whistleblowerRobert Sawdey11 1 3-9-06 5:47 pm 2-23-06: Someone accessed 40 Palm Beach County voting machines Nov ...Bev Harris110 1 3-9-06 7:30 am 2-21-06: An open letter to Bruce McPherson and the citizens of the ...Joycelynn Straight22 1 2-27-06 9:01 pm 2-17-06: BREAKING: Calif. Sec. State certifies entire Diebold produ...Bev Harris52 1 4-3-06 10:20 am 2-17-06: Election family tree: Who got us into this and how did the...Catherine Ansbro4 1 3-30-06 10:40 am 2-11-06: Voting machine examiners chickening out on Senate investig...Ron Crane24 1 2-18-06 1:27 pm 2-6-06: Landes takes e-voting to Supreme CourtV. Kurt Bellman24 1 4-19-06 10:33 am 2-6-06: Diebold agrees to waive proprietary claims to GEMS database...Marian Beddill12 1 2-11-06 1:38 pm 2-5-06: What protects your personal information once it enters e-el...Paul Lehto70 1 7-21-06 1:17 pm 2-2-06: Embezzler Jeff Dean remote accessed Calif. counties for 200...Kathleen Wynne4 1 2-2-06 8:38 am 2-1-06: Voting system examiners blocked from telling what they know?Byron Hale21 1 2-6-06 3:16 am 1-31-06: Diebold anticipates $100 to $125 million in 2006 voting sy...Bev Harris1 1 1-31-06 8:56 am 1-26-06: Elections Programmer Jeff Dean worked for same firm as for...Bev Harris25 1 1-27-06 12:45 pm 1-24-06: Public Records Get The Big Chill: Alaska's Voters vs Diebo...Jim March5 1 1-31-06 2:29 pm 1-13-06: ES&S reneges on Leon County deal 2 days before HAVA deadl...Catherine Ansbro33 1 1-17-06 1:20 am 1-9-2006: DuPage County Elections paid $30,000 to Republican politi...Bev Harris12 1 2-3-06 8:20 am 1-5-06: Wisconsin moves toward public source, then guts itJohn Washburn10 1 1-5-06 4:21 pm 1-3-2006: Hold on to your lugnuts, ES&S and Sequoia may risk Hurst...Brant Lamb33 1 1-25-06 4:56 am 12-30-05: Roll up your sleeves, we ain't done yet!BBV Admin1 1 12-30-05 4:26 pm 12-28-2005: Pennsylvania declines some Diebold but reveals an odd biasArnold Peckerman24 1 12-31-05 2:17 pm 12-23-05: ES&S under fire in CaliforniaEdward Robles5 1 12-26-05 5:36 am 12-20-05: California 'Hack' test stalled as Diebold certification d...Brant Lamb116 1 1-25-06 1:27 pm 12-13-05: Devastating hack proven - Leon County dumps DieboldSamuel Scharff97 1 5-29-06 9:25 pm 12-9-05: Diebold hack test -- Sec. State / Black Box lawyer square offJim March6 1 12-12-05 3:01 pm 12-7-05: Diebold stockholder suit - here's some ammoJim March7 1 12-8-05 9:37 am 12-4-05: 'Leave it up to us, we know best' say officialsBBV Admin27 2 12-15-05 4:17 am 11-30-05: Nope, the hack test won't be todayCatherine Ansbro25 1 1-3-06 12:51 am 11-28-05: Latest on California hack situationBruce Sims45 1 11-30-05 4:40 pm 11-24-05: Turkey Day leftovers: No thanks for stuffing elections wi...Edward Robles2 1 11-27-05 7:55 am 11-23-05: Flag on the play - Calif. Sec. State official calls foul ...Catherine Ansbro17 1 11-29-05 10:18 am 11-22-05: California invites Black Box Voting to hack Diebold votin...John Washburn31 1 12-9-05 8:23 am 11-22-2005: Updates on felons - Jeffrey Dean and John ElderBBV Admin7 1 11-22-05 9:37 am 11-21-05: Diebold violates court orderBBV Admin10 1 11-28-05 8:27 am 11-18-05: Fasten your seatbelts - It's time to bring this thing in ...Edward Robles7 1 11-27-05 9:12 am 11-15-05: FEC Investigating rapper P. Diddy (but not Blackwell or M...Edward Robles5 1 11-27-05 9:16 am 11-13-05: Detroit, Michigan elections are now a significant concernBBV Admin11 1 11-23-05 5:16 am 11-9-05: Los Angeles County has the dog & pony show downEdward Robles2 1 11-27-05 9:33 am 11-8-05: Share your observations on voting today hereKathleen Wynne10 1 11-10-05 9:15 am 11-6-05: Two state elections heads resign in FloridaBBV Admin6 1 11-6-05 5:11 am 11-4-05: Mail-in votes at higher risk with Diebold systemsBBV Admin1 1 11-4-05 8:00 am 11-3-05: The first public examination under the 15004 lawJohn Washburn5 1 11-6-05 6:41 am 10-28-05: Blackwell Blunders on Voting Machine ExaminationJohn Washburn14 1 10-31-05 11:23 am 10-26-05: The 'Perimeter Defense' - Follies and FailuresBBV Admin7 1 10-31-05 3:57 pm 10-21-05: GAO & NIST - Voting machine security finally goes mainstr...From the Mailbag10 1 10-29-05 11:39 am 10-9-05: VotoScope audit tool will catch Hart Intercivic bugBev Harris22 1 10-12-05 1:06 pm 10-8-05: Investors considering Diebold class action suitBev Harris1 1 10-8-05 3:08 pm 10-5-05: Diebold Lies Move Up the LadderBev Harris5 1 10-8-05 3:21 pm 9-19-2005: Carter-Baker Panel Report: Proposed Reforms Miss the BoatBrad Friedman52 1 10-3-05 12:02 pm 9-10-2005: Here's your chance to 'Look inside the Black Box':...alex baxter21 1 11-1-05 4:23 am 9-7-2005: Digital Image ballot scanners -- good or bad?Brant Lamb19 1 10-5-05 4:41 am 8-25-2005: Voting Rights Act expiration 2007Admin3 1 8-25-05 9:56 am 8-15-05: Election Reform -- Impending ShuffleCatherine_a107 1 8-25-05 1:51 pm 8-13-2005: If this doesn't get your blood boiling...Ubetchaiam9 1 8-15-05 11:24 am 8-10-2005: Mississippi Paper Trail ImminentCatherine Ansbro18 1 12-14-05 2:47 am 8-9-2005: Exactly what we don't want: Our election on Diebold's ser...John Howard13 1 10-5-05 8:20 pm 8-8-2005: Arcata, (CA) seeks to wrest election control from corpora...jimmarch6 1 8-12-05 12:33 am 8-5-05: 'Think Outside the Black Box' - ONLINE THINK TANK Admin5 1 8-17-05 7:46 am 8-3-05: San Diego backs down on charges against BBV director Jim MarchUbetchaiam32 1 8-22-05 12:01 pm 7-29-2005: Mississippi, listen up: California just rejected the TSxadmin17 1 8-13-05 8:15 pm 7-28-05: In his own words: Jim March on taking back his civil rightsmymarkx11 1 7-29-05 11:46 am 7-26-2005: BBV Board Member Arrested in San Diego for Viewing Vote-...cleanbean63 1 7-29-05 4:17 pm 7-25-2005: Wondering about mail-in voting? Diebold's new VoteRemote...Catherine Ansbro28 1 3-30-06 12:43 pm 7-21-2005: ES&S, Diebold lobbyists had ties to bribery investigatio...mary_ann9 1 7-31-05 12:00 am 7-20-2005: Internal documents reveal more Diebold ethics problemsadmin4 1 7-20-05 7:24 am 7-18-2005: Are The Lights Going Out In Georgia?admin5 1 7-22-05 3:14 pm 7-17-2005: Gallina (Diebold) reportedly paid Blackwell, GOP cronies...admin1 1 7-17-05 12:07 pm 7-11-2005: Case Against Diebold and Florida Division of Electionskathleen_wynne3 1 7-13-05 9:32 am 7-4-2005: The Black Box ReportJohn Dean36 1 5-8-06 6:05 pm 7-3-2005: Diebold accounting mistake -- SEC stuff may be a biggieadmin11 1 7-4-05 10:58 pm 7-1-2005: July 4 Security Alert for Diebold Optical Scanscatherine_a17 1 7-5-05 1:29 am 6-24-2005: Black Box Voting Litigation Fund LaunchedBev Harris2 1 2-3-06 8:22 am 6-17-05: Report on Calif. meeting -- Decertify Diebold?ubetchaiam11 1 7-21-05 2:37 pm 6-8-2005: Palm Beach County fails auditlinda_franz7 1 6-15-05 8:29 am 5-27-05: Optical scan system hacked (3 ways) - BBV ExclusiveBrant Lamb73 1 8-9-06 11:06 am 5-9-05: Consumer Report Series -- Following the Money Trail – Part Iadmin1 1 5-9-05 3:18 pm 5-6-04: $45m (Diebold?) contract flying under radar in Cook County ...admin2 1 5-6-05 2:53 pm 5-11-05: CANCELLED - Call to action May 19, Sacramentoadmin1 1 5-6-05 11:05 am 5-04-05 – Easier Hacking Access Sneaks in w. ADA Compliance Measuresadmin1 1 5-4-05 9:25 pm 4-24-05: LA's InkaVote system tied to Malaysian gambling outfitadmin1 1 4-24-05 12:43 pm 4-20-2005: Paper trail advocates - The devil in the detailsadmin1 1 4-20-05 11:54 am 4-18-2005: Diebold Lobbyist Documents Reveal Problemsadmin1 1 4-18-05 9:54 am 3-8-2005: Hack of Real-Life Voting System Demonstratedadmin1 1 3-9-05 12:51 pm 2-22-2005: Activating the Eagles -- Events this weekend in Californiaadmin1 1 2-22-05 5:08 pm 2-21-2005: Snohomish County (WA) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 4:51 pm 2-21-2005: Orange County (FL) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 12:57 pm 2-21-2005: Broward County (FL) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 12:14 pm 2-21-2005: Palm Beach County (FL) updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 11:04 am 2-21-2005: Volusia County (FL) Updateadmin1 1 2-21-05 7:02 am 2-1-2005: Black Box Voting donates $2000 to Ohio lawyersadmin1 1 2-1-05 2:51 pm 1-28-05: Eagles rolling up sleeves in Ohio, Florida, Californiaadmin1 1 1-28-05 6:30 am 1-20-05: BULLETIN: California Panel OKs Voter Privacy Removaladmin1 1 1-20-05 6:05 pm 1-18-05: Consumer Protection lawsuit activated against Dieboldadmin1 1 1-19-05 4:43 am 1-17-05: Black Box Voting Document Archiveadmin1 1 1-17-05 1:42 pm 1-10-05: Exposing the Crypto Solutionadmin1 1 1-11-05 6:20 am 1-6-05: Constitutional Equal Protection Amendment for Voters?admin1 1 1-11-05 6:15 am 1-5-05: Election Misconduct as a Public Records Crisisadmin1 1 1-11-05 6:10 am 1-5-05: Update from Washington D.C.admin1 1 1-11-05 6:01 am 12-30-2004: Volunteer Actions -- Activating the Eaglesadmin1 1 1-11-05 5:50 am 12-29-04: Update on 'Help America Audit'admin1 1 1-11-05 5:44 am 12-28-04: Update for donors, and a look to 2005admin1 1 1-11-05 5:35 am 11-18-2004: Volunteer actions -- How to 'Be the Media'admin1 1 1-11-05 5:56 am Start New Thread Mainstream News Reports Black Box Voting » Latest News » Mainstream News Reports « Previous Next » Thread Last Poster Posts Pages Last Post Dean Logan Says Unaffiliated WriteIns will be Checkedchristine c reid14 1 2-15-08 10:34 am New York Times re Holt BillV. Kurt Bellman26 1 2-8-08 1:57 pm AP Incorrectly calls Missouri for ClintonBill Bowen1 1 2-7-08 8:04 am San Fran CA-KSFO-AM reports Repub registration problemsNancy Tobi9 1 2-7-08 5:49 am Massachusetts results via your friends at LHSMike LaBonte10 1 2-7-08 5:24 am NJ Voting delay included Gov. CorzineMichael W Mather2 1 2-6-08 1:17 pm (CA) 2/08 - Voting machine probs delay Sacramento countPerry Duke9 1 2-5-08 6:34 pm (FL) 1/08 - More Florida voting machine problemsHal Guentert8 1 2-2-08 7:19 pm (FL) 1/08 - Final Florida results inkaren reineke11 1 2-1-08 4:25 pm (CO) 1/15 Democrats Ask Coffman to ResignFran Fleming1 1 2-1-08 9:41 am (FL) 1/08 - Problems already with voting machinesBev Harris 1 1 1-29-08 10:08 am (CO) Paper ballots win over RitterCatherine Ansbro3 1 1-29-08 2:16 am (MI) 12/07 - Proposition for new way to do primaries NEWS: Reform pres. candidate selection processCatherine Ansbro11 1 1-29-08 2:14 am Americans Abroad Can Now Vote Onlinesam lark7 1 1-26-08 3:49 pm (SC) 1/19/08 - Problems at polling locationsts taylor4 1 1-24-08 9:16 pm Feedback appreciated as this unfolds...Bruce Sims2 1 1-24-08 1:52 pm (Ohio) ACLU files suit to block paper ballots New paper ballots ca...Roger Wood20 2 1-20-08 9:43 pm REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER: Election Fraud RoundtableV. Kurt Bellman10 1 1-18-08 7:05 am (CO) Legislators lose their confidence in CoffmanCatherine Ansbro13 1 1-17-08 4:01 pm Olbermann Report !! On Voting Sue West6 1 1-17-08 3:53 pm GOP Figure Contracted to Deliver E-Voting Machines in MarylandAlex Laflamme1 1 1-17-08 9:43 am (NH) Experts skeptical of N.H. ballot-count conspiracy theoryBill Bowen60 1 1-16-08 10:37 pm Making votes countFran Fleming2 1 1-16-08 12:00 pm Ron Paul says in regard to New Hampshire voteDavid Evans1 1 1-13-08 8:32 am Diebold Changing its Buisness name Catherine Ansbro2 1 1-12-08 5:20 am (NH) 1/08 - Man plans recount of Republican vote in N.H. primary...Russell Novkov7 1 1-11-08 11:03 pm (TX) 10/07 - Another corrupt official, election tampering Refugio County - "Trust Me" failureCatherine Ansbro4 1 1-11-08 6:47 pm (FL) 9/07 - Volusia County again -- lots of defective memory cards... Volusia County - Voting system: Incident reportsWilliam Reese2 1 1-8-08 9:19 pm (FL) 10/07 - New machines, still not enough safeguards State of Florida - Voting systems: Transition to optical scan, issuesDon Powers2 1 1-8-08 12:00 am PC Magazine Article 09/12/07Don Powers2 1 1-7-08 10:45 pm (US) Can You Count On These Machines?Bev Harris 21 1 1-7-08 6:18 pm (US) Problems At Poll Permeate U.S. Political ProcessV. Kurt Bellman76 1 1-5-08 4:57 pm Legal Voters Thrown Off RollsV. Kurt Bellman7 1 1-3-08 11:15 am CNN: On the eve of Iowa caucus, some states give e-voting an 'F'...Russell Novkov2 1 1-2-08 3:42 pm (TX) 11/07 - Wharton County GOP will use paper ballots in primary... NEWS: Follow up on vote-flipping incidentLore2 1 1-1-08 3:35 pm (KY) 10/7 - Candidate for elections chief pleads guilty to forgery... Boone County - "Trust Me" FailureKathleen Wynne49 1 12-26-07 2:49 pm (US) 12/07 - FEC doors shut, 'No one left to answer phones'...Alan Brau4 1 12-25-07 8:29 pm (CO) 12/07 - Boulder: Stray marks caused decertificationBev Harris 1 1 12-23-07 9:49 pm (CO) 12/07 - Mesa: Commission defiant on vote machines NEWS: Resisting Colorado decertificationFran Fleming5 1 12-22-07 1:34 pm (AK) 12/07 - Impossible to tell whether 2004 count correct NEWS - Follow up on AZ Dem Party litigationBev Harris 1 1 12-21-07 7:05 am (CO) 12/07 - Denver: Voting gear out for count NEWS: Colo. decertification of Sequoia Julio Edwards1 1 12-18-07 6:41 am (US) 12/07 - Congressional watch tool for citizens PRESS RELEASE: New Freedom of Information toolBev Harris 1 1 12-11-07 7:20 am (PA) 11/07 - Philadelphia: Voter Fraud Allegations Again NEWS: Absentee ballot fraud allegationsV. Kurt Bellman21 1 12-7-07 2:02 pm (NJ) 12/07 - 'We are Neanderthals' - paper trail delayed again... NEWS: New Jersey paper trail statusBobby Arnold2 1 12-6-07 3:20 am (OH) 11/07 - Franklin County: Former elections official charged... NEWS: Election official corruptionBev Harris 2 1 12-2-07 7:50 am (OH) 11/07 - Township results flipped because of error (Lawrence Co... Lawrence County: Voting systems - Incident ReportBev Harris 4 1 11-23-07 2:00 pm (CT) 11/07 - Diebold/Premier machine miscount changes winner Greenwich: Voting systems - Incident reportsCatherine Ansbro4 1 11-23-07 1:47 pm (MS) 11/07 - New election ordered for Louise Linzy race Tunica County: Election incidentsBev Harris 1 1 11-22-07 9:05 pm (NH) 11/07 - It's official: Jan. 8 primary date State of New Hampshire: PrimariesBev Harris 1 1 11-22-07 8:28 pm (CA) 11/07 - Sec. State Bowen sues ES&S for $15 million State of California: Voting systems, ES&SBev Harris 3 1 11-21-07 9:09 pm (MI) 11/07 - It's back on: Mich. primary will proceed... State of Michigan: Primaries, Freedom of InformationBev Harris 1 1 11-21-07 10:38 am (MI) 11/07 - Michigan primary may not happen State of Michigan: Primaries, Freedom of Information Bev Harris 1 1 11-20-07 7:22 pm (NH) 11/07 - Pres primary date STILL not certain State of New Hampshire: PrimariesBev Harris 1 1 11-20-07 7:06 pm (OH) 11/07 - Provisionals may alter outcome Clermont County: Provisional ballotsBev Harris 1 1 11-19-07 5:54 pm (TX) 11/07 - Alteration of live election data in Harris County... Harris County: Voting systems, "Trust Me"Russell Novkov12 1 11-15-07 9:18 pm (US) 11/07 - Sequoia voting systems under new ownership US - VendorsBev Harris 1 1 11-9-07 6:39 am (OH) 11/07 - Polls open later in ES&S location Putnam County - Voting Machines: Incident ReportsPatricia Berg1 1 11-7-07 4:34 am (FL) 10/07 - Appeals court rules The People "moot" Sarasota County - LitigationBev Harris 1 1 11-2-07 8:02 am (CT) 10/07 - Candidate's company will transport voting machines... New Britain - Chain of CustodyBev Harris 1 1 10-29-07 11:22 am (IN) 10/07 - Polling locations reduced to four "vote centers"... Tippecanoe County - Access to PollsBev Harris 1 1 10-29-07 8:12 am (FL) 10/07 - Wrong Ballots Sent To Miami Absentee Voters Miami-Dade County - Absentee / Mail-in Incident ReportBrant Lamb13 1 10-22-07 11:34 am (PA) 10/07 - County replacing WinVote Lackawanna County - Voting systems: Procurement Alan Brau43 1 10-18-07 7:56 pm (US) 9/07 - E-vote industry massaging itself in the media Voting systems: Security / Chain of CustodyBev Harris 52 1 10-14-07 11:07 am (OH) 10/07 - A funeral for a presidential election State of Ohio - Compliance, enforcement issuesAlan Brau3 1 10-11-07 4:32 pm (FL) 10/07 - Peculiar excuses block accountability for primary Martin County - Compliance issue: Resisting paper trailBev Harris 1 1 10-11-07 7:12 am (TX) 9/07 - Hilarious but improper: video of lawmakers cheat-voting... State of Texas - Noncompliance, enforcement issues with legislator voting rulesBrant Lamb11 1 10-3-07 5:06 am (FL) 10/07 - FL-13 testing continues... Sarasota County - Voting system: Review & testing due to incident reportsRussell Novkov2 1 10-2-07 7:57 pm (IN) 10/07 - Belly-up vendor, in come different machines Randolph County - Voting systems: ProcurementBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:57 pm (FL) 10/07 - FL-13 report imminent Sarasota County - Voting system: Review & testing due to incident reportsBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:46 pm (US) 9/07 - If MS Excel bug = math errors, trust e-voting? US - Computer program: Incident reportBev Harris 1 1 10-2-07 7:38 pm (NC) 9/07 - The registrar's secret lair Montgomery County - Chain of custodyBev Harris 1 1 10-1-07 4:12 pm (NJ) 9/07 - Judge stalls on paper trail Mercer County - Compliance issue: Resisting paper trailBev Harris 1 1 10-1-07 3:46 pm (US) 9/07 - Less than 1/2 of military overseas votes counted US - Absentee / mail-in voting: Incidents, access problemsBev Harris 6 1 9-30-07 3:17 pm (GA) 9/07 - What's the punishment for throwing out 93,000 voter reg... Fulton County - Chain of custody / Privacy protection issuesBev Harris 1 1 9-28-07 9:12 am (US) 9/07 - Gird for massive new voting machine purchases: New stan... US - Voting systems: Standards, certification, procurementBrant Lamb16 1 9-27-07 5:02 am (PA) 9/07 County Commissioners' Assocation Opposes HR811 State of Pennsylvania - LegislationSamuel Scharff32 1 9-24-07 11:29 pm (CT) 9/07 - Voting rights activists express disappointment at CT s... State of Connecticut - Voting systems: Security Catherine Ansbro2 1 9-22-07 6:36 pm (NV) 9/07 - County to "prove Sequioa machines are secure"... Washoe County - Voting systems: SecurityBev Harris 1 1 9-22-07 9:43 am (IL) 9/07 - Indictment: Teamster Union vote rigging Teamster's Union [Chicago] - "Trust Me" failureBev Harris 1 1 9-8-07 4:48 pm (US) 2007 National news archive (see state foru... 130 24 10-11-07 12:25 pm (US) 2006 National news archive (see state foru... 482 60 10-11-07 12:25 pm (US) 2005 National news archive (see state foru... 310 152 10-11-07 12:24 pm (US) 2004 National news archive (see state forums for state news)... 77 42 10-11-07 12:24 pm Start New Thread 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review Reviews Voted Most Helpful Votes are counted and displayed within 24 hours HM 1355196 37% Similar To You HM 1355196's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This is an excellent documentary that I think every American should see before they vote again. This is not a movie about Bush vs. Kerry or Republicans vs. Democrats. Its about our current voting system and exposing a multitude of problems with that system as demonstrated in the 2004 election. We are told "EVERY VOTE COUNTS" and this documentary exposes the corruption, mistruths, and shameful negligence and mishandling of these "VOTES" in a way that cannot be denied nor ignored - unless you don't watch it for yourself. 73 out of 78 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful TerBo 40% Similar To You TerBo's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This is a must-see documentary, especially for those still doubtful about whether elections in this country can be tampered with. The answer is yes, yes, yes!!! Kudos to Bev Harris who has dedicated years to exposing the corruption surrounding electronic voting. Get this. After Hacking Democracy's premiere on HBO, Harris received death threats. That's how risky and powerful her work is. 67 out of 77 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Shiftdnb 47% Similar To You Shiftdnb's other reviews > 4.0 Stars This is an amazing documentary showing that there are problems with the way we vote in America. When a normal everyday citizen gets up and challenges the system, you see how the system fights back. This woman doesn't give up like most of us would and shows us and one election official in Florida that the way our voting system was run and still is, has errors. 29 out of 36 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Most Recent Reviews SG 178412 23% Similar To You SG 178412's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Anyone who cares at all about the future of democracy in America (R or D or whatever else party affiliation you choose) NEEDS to see this movie. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful grw 970297 20% Similar To You grw 970297's other reviews > 5.0 Stars If our so-called government doesn't fix the problems exposed in this excellent documentary, our democracy no longer will exist. Abolish electronic voting machines!! I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Professional Bum 63% Similar To You Professional ...'s other reviews > 5.0 Stars If you are an American & have the ability to vote, please do yourself a favor and put this in your queue immediately(especially since this is an election year). This wonderful documentary proves my point that we have the best democracy that money can buy, along with our judicial system. This film is more frightening than any horror film I've seen, because THIS IS REAL! And this is movie biased? Not at all. It's an absolute eye opener that shows that your vote really doesn't count; and make sure you watch the deleted scenes(another 33 minutes of fantastic footage). 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews hawk5391 58% Similar To You hawk5391's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Even though I also watched the original slasher classic Black Christmas, this was the scariest movie I saw over the Christmas break. Although the filmmakers obviously have every reason to sensationalize potential problems with electronic voting systems ("good news is no news," right?), the implications here are frightening. Not only did Bev Harris (founder of a non-partisan watchdog group) find voting machine code unprotected on the internet, she was able to successfully hack it and prove that results could be manipulated (you can watch this being done in a matter of seconds in this film). The lack of oversight of the companies who control the majority of electronic voting is astounding, almost as bad as the sloppy manner in which our government oversees the elections themselves. 10 out of 10 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Cassun 53% Similar To You Cassun's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Probably the scariest movie I've watched in a long time. The production value isn't good, but its worth sitting through to find out just how easy it would be for just one person with an agenda to manipulate the outcome of an election. 9 out of 12 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful LR 572736 43% Similar To You LR 572736's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Politics in America is scarey enough, but when you see what is going on with our elections system, you will just go through the roof. We have hoped through the last few centuries that a government of the people, by the people and for the people would not parish from the face of the earth, and that America would be its shining example. After viewing this flick, you will realize just how tarnished our example has become. We have realized in the past decades, that money rules, and it just feels like our votes don't count, only the money that backs our politicians. Only the corporations and special interests have access to the politicians these days, not the people that vote. This picture goes a long way to explaining how that happens. After realizing the truths in this documentary, I feel even more helpless and useless to change a corrupt government by my vote. Did my vote get counted? How would I even know? The facts put forth in this program are just about incredible, but you come away realizing their powerful credibility. I wondered why their hasn't been criminal prosecution of the election fraud that is running rampant in our country today? Where are prosecuters? Why aren't elections officials who ignore our right to have our votes counted, recounter and certified being placed on trial for crimes against the electorate? You owe it to yourself and your country to see this documentary long before the next election. Don't miss this one! 8 out of 9 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful CP 1799900 36% Similar To You CP 1799900's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Wow. I just finished watching this documentary, and I can't believe what I heard and saw. This is not another Michael Moore speculative film that makes assumptions with no factual evidence. This is incredible. Everyone should see this film. It is truly an amazing look inside of our election system. 8 out of 9 people found this review helpful. Member Reviews 59 customers reviewed this movie. Write a Review SN 25968 62% Similar To You SN 25968's other reviews > 5.0 Stars We must all see this movie. It's not JUST about elections. It's about the undermining of our society, the breakdown. My opinion is that we should get away from secret voting and out into the public. Democracy is where WE THE PEOPLE elect our officials. You must see this to know why I write this. 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful JR 1824621 61% Similar To You JR 1824621's other reviews > 5.0 Stars This is what makes America great: a woman, with a full life, puts it all behind her because she has come across the ultimate injustice and knows that she must right it. This is the story of the creation of the group and webpage BlackBoxVoting.com Having found the Diebold's source code, a code that not even the President of the United States can see, Bev Harris takes the code to an expert. What is revealed causes Harris to criss cross America, to prove the fact that Diebold had literally hijacked democracy. Although it's possible, it's difficult to believe that anyone can think that the 2004 Presidential Election wasn't rigged after viewing this film. A 'must see' for every American. 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful PW 51% Similar To You PW's other reviews > 5.0 Stars One of the scariest movies I've ever seen... because it's true. If you liked 'All the presidents men' or 'The Insider' You'll like this movie. Actually come to think of it, what this story needs is a treatment like the above mentioned movies so the message could have a broader appeal beyond this documentary. 5 out of 6 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful FV 1232392 44% Similar To You FV 1232392's other reviews > 4.0 Stars Highly recommedable as the documentary reveals what we all have been suspecting and fearing in an objective and somewhat scientific way. It is quite timely, and I think we can all relate to the topic at hand. I was touched by the reaction of some of the people in the movie when they proved how the voting system can be hacked without much effort 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Steve Smith 38% Similar To You Steve Smith's other reviews > 5.0 Stars Unbelievable. That's how I describe this excellent documentary. Every citizen of the USA owes it to themselves to watch this documentary. It is just shocking. It calls into question everything we know about how our votes are recorded in this country. My jaw literally dropped when I saw one part of it. I won't ruin it for those who haven't seen it. You MUST watch this! 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful Ben5765 35% Similar To You Ben5765's other reviews > 4.0 Stars This film is all about voting machines and how votes are tabulated. It makes mincemeat of the Diebold Corporation, manufacturer of a large percentage of the electronic voting machines used in the United States. It reveals Diebold officials making lie after lie about the security of their machines. The makers of the film meticulously document how, using Diebold's machines and data cards, someone with just a basic understanding of the technology involved (including, certainly, any Diebold employee) could rig the vote count, on one machine or on thousands of them, with absolutely no record that the rigging was ever done. The film also reveals how Diebold's chief executive officer was (and maybe still is) a large contributor to the Republican Party. He once wrote a letter stating that he would "deliver" Ohio's electoral votes in the 2004 presidential election for George W. Bush. The film later shows how his company managed to persuade Cuyahoga County, Ohio (where Cleveland is) to buy its machines. Maybe there is nothing fishy going on there, but appearances matter! Lest the film be seen as partisan, it features, among others, a Republican office-seeker from Louisiana who, after losing her race, went to view a demonstration of the machines that the voters used. As part of the demonstration she pressed the button next to her name, and the machine registered a vote for her opponent. Hmmm. She was understandably troubled. Moreover, the film points out that in many parts of the country it is in fact the local Republican Party that is wary of electronic voting machines, not the Democrats. Hacking Democracy also reveals problems with punch card voting systems--problems that dwarf the famous "hanging chad" problem of the 2000 presidential vote count in Florida. The film's message is distressing, but it is one all American citizens should hear and see. 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful. I found this review Click to rate this review as helpful AdriH 34% Similar To You AdriH's other reviews >