When the results of the Razzies were announced, this was one of the only movies I had not seen among those selected. Technically it is more of a television special broadcast than an actual feature film, but I was determined to watch it and find out why it received the negativity it did. The full title of the film is Absolute Proof: Exposing Election Fraud and the Theft of America by Enemies Foreign and Domestic. Basically, Mike Lindell (aka the "My Pillow Guy", winner of Worst Actor) is an American businessman, and the founder and CEO of My Pillow, Inc. (a pillow manufacturing company based in Chaska, Minnesota). Lindell purchased three hours of airtime on One America News Network, which had been threatened with legal action, to broadcast this documentary. In a newsroom style studio, Lindell talks about the 2020 Donald Trump/Joe Biden Presidential Election and claims to have proof that a cyberattack from the Chinese 'flipped' the result. OANN broadcast a lengthy disclaimer before the program saying the claims were Lindell's alone, but that the 2020 election results "remain disputed and questioned by millions of Americans". In the programme, Lindell starts with showing the "Margin of Error" for thousands of election votes, which he describes as a "miracle". He displays of list of "fraudulent" votes accepted in the states of Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia, and how many error votes there were under various categories. These (utterly ridiculous) categories included: "Illegal aliens voting", "Votes loaded before opening of polls", "Dead people who voted", "Voters who double voted", "Voters who were known to have also voted in other states", "Fake ballots driven from New York to Pennsylvania", "Between 80 to 100 self-proclaimed Black Lives Matter-affiliated members", "Ballots accepted up to three days after the election", "Poll workers sorted ballots with various errors into bins. Poll workers then re-filled out these ballots so that they could be read by tabulation machines, an action contrary to state law", "Felons with incomplete sentences registered to vote and cast their vote", "Underage children registered to vote and illegally voted", "Unregistered voters who voted", "Voters who voted in Georgia and also voted in another state", "Voters voted in Georgia but changed their address before the election", "People voted who failed to re-register to vote in their new county in time after moving from one county to another", "Voters who registered too late to vote in the election", and "People who died prior to the election". Lindell then speaks to Cybersecurity Expert Colonel Phi Waldron from a different studio who discusses the "system vulnerabilities", where machines could be hacked to change election outcomes, but this guy just goes on and on uninterrupted for over ten minutes. Next interviewed in another studio is Russ Ramsland, an expert of cyber forensics and security who specialises in election fraud, he says that he tried to get officials to investigate the results and that he is sure that the electronic voting system was compromised. Lindell is next joined in the studio by Dr. Shiva (Shiva Ayyadurai), expert on system science and pattern analysis, he has built large computer systems and shares the opinion that the machines used for polling could have been threatened and calls the computer algorithms a "crime scene". Lindell next talks in the studio to politician Patrick Colbeck, the former state senator in Michigan, who has become a poll challenger who believes that some machines were connected to internet, which they should not be, and this would allow attackers to 'flip' the election result. Next in the studio with Lindell is Melissa Carone, an IT contractor for Dominion Voting Systems on election day, who says she never saw a single vote for Trump and claims machines got jammed and could count votes more than once. Attorney Matt DePerno is next in the studio discussing his part of a lawsuit filed against the election result and voting equipment, he claims that recounts were made as adjudication files were deleted from the systems and shows how machines could be connected to the internet. Next there is an office interview from Eric Coomer, director of product strategy and security, at Dominion Voting Systems, who answers questions about the machines and networks they use. It goes back to Lindell and DePerno in the studio repeating that this is the "biggest crime in American history". Lindell then gets to "the moment you've all been waiting for", where the voice of Mary Fanning, national intelligence researcher and author, on the phone reveals how the cyberattack happened, (breaking through the firewall) and a chart is shown listing "foreign intrusion/interference" with identified hackers. The list sees the hacker ID addresses, their targets (states and computers), their methods, their fake credentials and whether they were successful in changing votes, and Fanning says there are thousands of these pages. There is also a video (a Google maps style chart) showing the surveillance system in cyber security, it is a series of coloured moving lines, these are the IP addresses of identified hackers, and the colour specifies how severe the hacks are. The next online video interview is from General Thomas G. McInerney, retired air force and military professional, who gives his perspective on the "domestic enemy" threatening the constitution of the United States, and Lindell assures him that there be a revival for the country. Lindell talks via video message to Terry Turchie, former FBI official and political operative, who answers the question of where the FBI were during the "penetration" of the country and that a major investigation would be launched about the "stolen" election. Finally, Lindell delivers a hopeful message for those watching that America will be returned to "one nation under God", and a series of images of a glorious America are shown, and the ending message "Please share this with everyone you know". YouTube removed this documentary shortly after the broadcast for violating its policy against election disinformation. In all my life, I have never seen such a stupid factual show with no facts whatsoever! Lindell must be a Trump supporter, and this programme was obviously made with those supporters in mind. It is just a series of images of lists, charts, maps and diagrams with no substantial evidence, and interviews with experts and political figures (more like conspiracy theorists) who often repeat themselves and equally have no substantial proof about what they are talking about. As for Lindell himself, he tries to come across as authentic, he is desperate for viewers to believe the lies that he and the programme are trying to present, no wonder he has got in trouble and lost business. You would have no problem falling asleep during this film, it is all chat with no point that pricks up your ears and attracts your interest, I doubt (or rather hope) even many proper sceptics will get anything out of the nonsense presented. It is programmes like this that give America a bad name and make you question their intelligence and quality of programming. Easily one of the most boring, untruthful, and unwatchable things I've ever seen, a rubbish documentary. It won the Razzie for Worst Picture. Very poor!
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