PIML 96062501 / Forwarded to Patriot Information Mailing List: [Votescam is also available in the mass (small) paperback version from Unlimited Thought Bookstore in San Antonio, Texas, 210 525-0693. This book is highly recommended. It does us no good to vote for patriot candidates if we don't have volunteers for poll watching at all levels.] PIML =================================================================== Date: 24 Jun 96 16:10:07 EDT From: Michael Williams <100705.1252@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Votescam Reply-To: snetnews@alterzone.com -> SearchNet's snetnews Mailing List Votescam Are Americans being robbed of their most fundamental right? Is the Voter's News Service a tool for manipulating elections? The 1992 book "VOTESCAM: The Stealing of America", by Jim Collier and his deceased brother Ken Collier, exposed the results of an investigation into the methodical rape of America's once free and honest election process. There is strong evidence that VOTESCAM is alive and well in the current Republican primaries. They key culprit in this fraud is the Voter's News Service (VNS), a private corporation created and mutually owned by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and the Associated Press. As the New York Times recently reported, "All the networks, and other news organizations that pay to receive voter-poll information, get their data from the same source, the Voters News Service." ("3 Networks Admit Error in Arizona Race Reports", February 29, 1996) Polling data is sent via modem from polling sites to VNS, leaving the data open to any number of manipulations before reaching the hands of the TV news anchors. Results of computer voting can easily be skewed, leaving no trace whatsoever of tampering. The exit poll dilemma suggests that VNS is used to "rig" national elections. Exit and entrance polls can sometimes be used to guess the outcome of an election, but it takes a significant amount of time to interview voters, tabulate results and call them in. Yet election results are often accurately predicted within 1 percent on TV news broadcasts just minutes after the polls open. Is it prescience on the part of Peter Jennings and Dan Rather, or vote fraud on a mass scale? Jim Condit, Jr., head of the Cincinnatus PAC, a Cincinnati, Ohio group investigating VOTESCAM, recently appeared on the satellite talk show CDR INFO HOUR to discuss voting fraud in the Republican primaries. The facts Condit presents strongly indicate that Buchanan may have been the victim of voting fraud in pivotal Republican primaries. Regardless of past and present misdeeds, Buchanan and his followers have a right to be heard at the ballot box. LOUISIANA The entire state had only 42 voting locations. Voters drove hundreds of miles to cast their votes, only to stand in lines that circled the blocks. At 10 p.m. that night, a local news station reported that Buchanan beat Phil Gramm by a two-to-one margin, a figure which was not mentioned again anywhere in the media. It was later reported that Buchanan won 13 delegates, with Gramm taking 8 delegates. IOWA The Iowa primary was especially interesting. Using alleged "entrance poll" data provided by VNS, Peter Jennings of ABC news predicted a win for Dole at 6:56 p.m., four minutes before the caucus opened. His prediction, of course, was accurate. Throughout the night, reports showed a tight race, with Dole holding steady at 26 percent, and Buchanan close behind with 23 percent of the votes. At 10 p.m., the Associated Press and other sources announced that "vote counting had been halted for the night." Citizen volunteers in Dubuque County, however, totaled results from 41 precincts, showing Buchanan with 870 votes, Dole with 339 and under 250 each for the other candidates. Dubuque County used paper ballots, and counting was verified by eye-witnesses and representatives of each candidate, according to Jim Condit, head of the Cincinnatus PAC, a group of citizen VOTESCAM investigators in Cincinnati, Ohio. To further ensure accuracy, the votes were posted in the precinct before they were called in. As per instructions from Iowa Republican Party Chair Brian Kennedy, vote totals were called in to the VNA, not the Secretary of State, Board of Elections or the State Republican Party. The next day, the Des Moines Register, using data from VNS, reported that Buchanan took 757 votes in Dubuque County, 13 percent less than the actual tally reported. Likewise, Lamar Alexander's count was bumped up 5 percent more than the actual tally sent to VNS. VNS attempted to explain this discrepancy by claiming that only 38 out of 41 precincts were counted, but witnesses in Dubuque County, who actually counted the votes, verified that all 41 precincts had, indeed, been counted. The only way VNS could have gotten different numbers is if the numbers were altered after being sent from Dubuque County. It is not outrageous to assume that if results from one Iowa county were altered, results from other counties may also have been skewed. A loss for Dole in Iowa probably would have mortally wounded his campaign effort. Considering Dole's narrow "victory", it is not inconceivable that Buchanan may have actually won the Iowa primary. ARIZONA The Arizona Republican primary was also quite interesting. For the first time in the state's history, voters were told they "could vote in any precinct they wanted" rather than their local precinct. Another first: 60,000 voters received duplicates of a special white ballot card, allowing them to vote twice by simply driving to a neighboring precinct after casting their first vote. According to VOTESCAM investigator Jim Condit, eyewitnesses willing to affirm their statements under oath watched representatives from the Board of Elections removing ballot boxes from precincts in heavily populated Maricopa County at 2 p.m., hours before the polls closed. At 4 p.m., Governor Fife Symington called Buchanan state headquarters to congratulate Buchanan on his win. According to NBC poll estimates, Buchanan would win the primary by a wide margin, as expected. The networks reported Buchanan's lead all day. Then, suddenly, Steven Forbes leaped ahead of the pack, with Bob Dole second, and Buchanan third. Flabbergasted political analysts tried in vain to explain the anomaly, then brushed it under the carpet as the rat race continued. They ignored the most obvious and simplest explanation: someone was screwing with the voting results. As usual, VNS was the common denominator. A solid victory in the Arizona primary would have breathed new life into the Buchanan campaign, giving him a fighting chance for the Republican nomination for president. On the basis of the 60,000 duplicate cards alone, the primary should be discarded. But with Buchanan's campaign becoming more and more irrelevant as Dole prepares his acceptance speech for the Republican Convention, it is doubtful that he will challenge the illegal procedures in Arizona. Computer voting is dangerous and unnecessary. Ballot boxes cannot be programmed; manipulating physical ballots requires much more effort than hacking a vote tabulation program. Where votes are tallied by computer, citizens have little hope of uncovering and proving the existence of vote fraud, in spite of whatever circumstantial evidence may exist. Work at the precinct level to re-establish ballot boxes in your area, and observe voting practices in your locality. Take notes, and videotape procedures whenever possible. Tape conversations, and be sure to have witnesses with you. Take the day off work and head for the closest precinct. (And don't feel bad about it -- voting day should be a holiday in America anyway.) Organize with VOTESCAM investigators in your area, or start your own group. Demand paper ballots! Your actions will accomplish several goals: you will help uncover voting abuses, and you will act as a deterrent to corruption at the ballot box. Not only that, but you'll soon develop a more intimate understanding of the voting process and realize what it means to be a REAL American: paranoid, butt-headed, and NOT to be screwed with. Also write your state and national legislators to alert them of any information you uncover. Hold their feet to the fire, and demand an investigation of the Voters News Service. To assist Jim Condit's investigation, call 513-471-1500, or write Cincinnatus PAC, P.O. Box 11339, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211. Also check out the Cincinnatus PAC web site at http://www.networkusa.org Read Jim and Ken Colliers' book, "VOTESCAM," available for $12.50 (shipping & handling included) from The Baker Report, 3615 W. Waters Ave., Suite 308, Tampa, Florida 33614. Audio cassettes of Condit's interview on The CDR Info Hour are also available from The Baker Report for $10.00. You can order a copy of "VOTESCAM" online at http://www.copi.com/votescam/default.htm For more information on voting fraud in American see the November 7, 1988 issue of New Yorker Magazine. -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@alterzone.com -> Posted by: Michael Williams <100705.1252@CompuServe.COM> =================================================================== * Patriot Information Mailing List * http://constitution.org/piml/piml.htm * A service to help inform those who have an active interest in * returning our federal and state governments to limited, * constitutional government * Send messages for consideration and possible posting to * butterb@sagenet.net (Bill Utterback). * To subscribe or unsubscribe, send message with subject line * "subscribe patriot" or "unsubscribe patriot" * Forwarded messages sent on this mailing list are NOT verified. * See World's Smallest Political Quiz: www.self-gov.org/quiz.html * Libertarian is to LIBERTY as librarian is to library (DePena) * PIML grants permission to copy and repost this message * in its entirety with headers and trailers left intact.