The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2016)
When Donald Trump says, "This election is rigged"-he should know. His buddies are rigging it. Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast busted Jeb Bush for stealing the 2000 election by purging Black voters from Florida's electoral rolls. Now Palast is back to take a deep dive into the Republicans' dark operation, Crosscheck, designed to steal a million votes by November. Crosscheck is controlled by a Trump henchman, Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State who claims his computer program has identified 7.2 million people in 29 states who may have voted twice in the same election--a felony crime. The catch? Most of these "suspects" are minorities-in other words, mainly Democratic voters. Yet the lists and the evidence remain "confidential." Palast and his investigative partner Leni Badpenny do what it takes to get their hands on the data, analyzing it to find the names of nearly one million Americans about to lose their vote by November. They hunt down and confront Kobach with the evidence of his "lynching by laptop." Then they are off to find the billionaires behind this voting scam. The search takes Palast from Kansas to the Arctic, the Congo, and to a swanky Hamptons dinner party held by Trump's sugar-daddy, John Paulson, a.k.a. "JP The Foreclosure King." Palast and BadpennyThey stake out top GOP donors, the billionaire known as "The Vulture" and the Koch brothers, whom Palast nails with a damning tape recording. In this real life detective story brought to life in a film noir style with cartoon animation, secret documents, hidden cameras, and a little help from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit detectives, Ice-T and Richard Belzer, Shailene Woodley, Rosario Dawson, Willie Nelson and Ed Asner, Palast and his associates expose the darkest plans of the uber-rich to steal America's democracy.
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Domestic DistributorCinema Libre Studio
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Domestic Opening$9,511
Earliest Release DateSeptember 23, 2016
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Running Time1 hr 54 min
GenresDocumentary
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Greg Palast | Director |
| David Ambrose | Director |
| Greg Palast | Writer |
| David Ambrose | Producer |
| Miguel 'Mike' Wise | Producer |
| Mario Grigorov | Composer |
| Daniel Meyers | Cinematographer |
| Zach D Roberts | Cinematographer |
| Rick Rowley | Cinematographer |
| David Ambrose | Editor |
| Anthony DiMieri | Editor |
| Cast | Role |
|---|---|
| Edward Asner | |
| Richard Belzer | |
| Rosario Dawson | |
| Von Eckardt-Manzoni |
