Stealing America: Vote by Vote

For more than 20 years exit polls had accurately predicted election results.

Over the last 10 years that reliability has progressively disappeared.

What is going on?

Emmy Award winning and Academy Award nominated filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman's revealing new documentary brings together seemingly unrelated anomalies of the U.S. electoral puzzle to paint a chilling picture of widespread "glitches" that have the capacity to alter election results.

Narrated by Peter Coyote, STEALING AMERICA: VOTE BY VOTE brings together behind-the-scenes perspectives from the U.S. presidential election of 2004 – plus startling stories from key races in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2006. The film sheds light on a decade of vote counts that don't match votes cast – uncounted ballots, vote switching, under-votes, and many other examples of election totals that warrant serious investigation. The last two presidential elections both came down to a relatively small number of votes, and in both elections the integrity of the voting process has been called into question. With the upcoming election looking to be similarly close, the time has come to ask the questions: What happened in 2000 and 2004? What has changed since? What can be done to ensure a fair and honest tabulation of votes in 2008?

Throughout STEALING AMERICA: VOTE BY VOTE, we hear from voters who experienced a wide range of problems, including those whose votes flipped from one candidate to another when using electronic voting machines and polling places that didn't have enough machines to serve the number of voters. Investigative journalists describe how their reportage on election fraud was sidelined. First-person citizen testimonies speak of waiting in line for over nine hours to vote. Polling experts’ requests for essential information – such as precinct voting data necessary to examine irregularities – were rejected, while ballots were systematically destroyed, making audits impossible.

Experts appearing in the film include Bob Hagan – Ohio State Senator and first-hand witness to on-screen vote switching; Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – Activist, author, environmental lawyer and co-host of Ring of Fire on the Air America Radio network; Charles Lewis – Investigative journalist, former 60 Minutes producer and founder, Center for Public Integrity; Bruce O' Dell and Chuck Herrin – Fortune 100 Company computer security analysts; Greg Palast – BBC investigative journalist; Paul Craig Roberts – Economist and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan and former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service and presently a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate; Dr. Avi Rubin – Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins; Ion Sancho – Appointed by the Florida Supreme Court to count the votes in the disputed 2000 presidential election and who blazed a trail in proving that it is possible to "hack" into voting machines and change the totals; Dr. Jonathan Simon – Data analyst, who has been focusing on Exit Polls discrepancies; and John Zogby – International polling authority.

Filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman has been producing media with a focus on social justice and human rights since 1976. She has won more than 50 major awards for her work on such films as WHEN ABORTION WAS ILLEGAL: UNTOLD STORIES, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.