Alternate Versions
The 2004 extended 57-minute 2004 Campaign Edition was released to tie in with the 2004 US Presidential Election. This edition of the film features a filmed introduction from Danny Glover and an epilogue spent analyzing the drawbacks of the new computer ballot system, which does not leave any paper trail with which to enact a manual hand recount should the need arise. The film claims that the computer systems also had errors, but there was no way to know how many due to the lack of a paper trail.
The computer ballot example used is the Georgia Governor's race between incumbent Roy Barnes and challenger, and victor, Sonny Perdue in 2002. Because Governor Perdue is the first Republican governor elected in Georgia since Reconstruction, the film strongly suggests that hackers and key personnel with access to the computer balloting system may have been able to influence the outcome of the election, propelling Perdue to the governor's mansion. The film does not mention the wide array of political issues which had made Governor Barnes very unpopular in the state before the election, specifically his drastic reductions in education spending and overall budgetary difficulties of the state.
Read more about this topic: Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
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