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After her loss and under the protection of state law to inspect the voting machines, Bernecker went to the warehouse where the Sequoia Pacific computers had been taken. There a producer videotaped Bernecker as she pressed the button next to her name on the ballot which registered the name of her opponent on a LED screen. Bernecker checked twelve machines and her name appeared displayed only a third of the time.
Bernecker was a participant in the Hursti Hack held in Tallahassee, Florida, and featured in Hacking Democracy, an Home Box Office documentary on the errors of the Diebold Election Systems Accu-Vote Operating system 1.94w (optical scan) voting machine.