Code Red: Computerized Election Theft and the New American Century: Election 2016 Edition

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With votes counted in cyberspace, election theft is easy and democracy itself in danger. CODE RED takes you behind the headlines and shows why it is perilous to accept the official results of many of our elections, including the Trump victory now being challenged. CODE RED will help you understand how and why citizens who value democracy are working to investigate and expose electoral cybercrime. -Jonathan Simon's
CODE RED
is unique, easy-to-understand, and vastly important.- - Andrew Kreig, Justice Integrity Project

-As a professional statistician, I found
CODE RED
's data, analysis, and conclusions compelling.- - Dr. Elizabeth Clarkson, Wichita State University

-Jonathan Simon's research is thorough and his case is more than compelling ... He has provided an important public service.- - John Zogby, founder of The Zogby Poll

CODE RED
is about what has happened to American elections, American politics, and America since computers took over the vote counting just a few short years ago. The new Election 2016 Edition brings the troubling story up to date, provides more data and analysis, and issues a specific action plan for opening up the darkness of vote-counting cyberspace and restoring an observable counting process to American elections.

CODE RED
identifies the red flags--including the glaring ones waving over the 2014 election and the 2016 primaries--and provides accessible examinations of why those flags are red It is a disturbing and provocative call to action. It is about saving our democracy and our country. Now, before it's all gone.

Free and fair elections are the bedrock of a democracy. America, which considers itself the beacon of democracy, has turned to computerized counting for virtually all of its public elections. But trusting our democracy to a concealed, computerized vote counting system is like building a house on quicksand. Several other advanced democracies-including Germany, The Netherlands, and Ireland-have moved away from the computerized tabulation they initially embraced, having recognized the manifest security risks it entails. But America has continued to entrust its elections to privatized and concealed vote counting despite mounting and voluminous evidence that the vulnerabilities to manipulation are not merely hypothetical but are actually being exploited, with profound political consequences.

CODE RED
shows how America has come to adopt and embrace such a system and why America is so collectively resistant to any serious reconsideration of its safety and appropriateness. We examine the role of election administrators, politicians, and the media in stifling investigation of the validity of suspect American elections and, more generally, of the safety and rationality of a system proven by experts to be easily corrupted. We also examine the nexus between computerized elections and the veer of American politics over the past few years since the computers took over the counting.

Finally,
CODE RED
urges possible ways out of this mess, and evaluates the prospects for reform. The conclusion is that time is running short for a political resolution, and that restoration of electoral legitimacy and political balance will depend on an exercise of public will not witnessed in America within living memory.

CODE RED
combines analysis and advocacy and concludes with a powerful call to action: -We need only to break a spell that has been cast on us--a spell of convenience, passivity, helplessness. We need only remember that democracy is not something that we watch, it is something that we do.-

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Release: July 05, 2014

ISBN: 1500319856

ISBN 13: 9781500319854

Code Red: Computerized Election Theft and the New American Century: Election 2016 Edition

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Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

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Release: July 05, 2014

ISBN: 1500319856

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I didn't like the book very much. The author opens up with a strong conspiratorial stance without providing concrete evidence. Instead, they ask a bunch of vague questions and use that to justify their position. They also make many allusions to events they assume are obvious, so they don't provide good explanations.At the same time, I do agree with their proposed solutions to make the election process more secure.
Stephen

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Feb 05, 2026

"Who among us would trust an election where the ballots were handed to a man, dressed in a magicians's costume, who took them behind a curtain and emerged some time later, claiming he had counted and then shredded them, to tell us who won? What if the man were wearing a "So-And-So For President" button or some other partisan signifier? And what if the results of key and close elections...kept going that same way? How many, and what overall pattern of, strange results would it take before we insi...
Dave

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Feb 05, 2026

This book was obtained through First Reads. I thank both the author, Mr. Simon, and Goodreads for this opportunity.Theft!? Corruption!? Under the table handshakes!? By our world leaders, let alone our own government!? But, don't they go into office for the good of us, the people?The book is well laid out. I enjoyed the Q&A format making up the first half of the book, making it easier to understand and to get the point across. The second half of the book goes into charts and graphs and methodolog...

Nick

(3/5)

Feb 05, 2026

I didn't like the book very much. The author opens up with a strong conspiratorial stance without providing concrete evidence. Instead, they ask a bunch of vague questions and use that to justify their position. They also make many allusions to events they assume are obvious, so they don't provide good explanations.At the same time, I do agree with their proposed solutions to make the election process more secure.

Stephen

(5/5)

"Who among us would trust an election where the ballots were handed to a man, dressed in a magicians's costume, who took them behind a curtain and emerged some time later, claiming he had counted and then shredded them, to tell us who won? What if the man were wearing a "So-And-So For President" button or some other partisan signifier? And what if the results of key and close elections...kept going that same way? How many, and what overall pattern of, strange results would it take before we insi...

Dave

(4/5)

This book was obtained through First Reads. I thank both the author, Mr. Simon, and Goodreads for this opportunity.Theft!? Corruption!? Under the table handshakes!? By our world leaders, let alone our own government!? But, don't they go into office for the good of us, the people?The book is well laid out. I enjoyed the Q&A format making up the first half of the book, making it easier to understand and to get the point across. The second half of the book goes into charts and graphs and methodolog...

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