VOTESCAM 



                 THE STEALING OF

                    AMERICA



                 JAMES M. COLLIER

                KENNETH E COLLIER







Votescam: The Stealing Of America



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Victoria House Press, 67 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005

Copyright 1992 © by James M. Collier



ISBN: 0-9634165-0-8



Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93-093814

Cover Design & Illustration: Steve Gordon



          To our daughters Amy, Unity and Victoria







CONTENTS



Book One: 1970-1989



The Premise                                   1



1. Electronic Hoodwink                        4



2. Ballots Not Bullets                       25



3. The Silent Press                          58



4. It Takes a Thief                          82



5. A Tangled Web                            100



6. Hounds of Hell                           128



7. The Petersen Memo                        140



8. Video Vigilantes                         144



9. Shots in the Dark                        166



10. Watergatetown                           184



11. Power Corrupts                          203



12. Strange Bedfellows                      234



13. Full Circle                             248



14. Star Chamber Session                    269 



Book Two: 1990-1992



15. Pieces Of The Puzzle                    288 



16. The 13th Floor                          298



17. The Last Dispatch                       314



Epilogue



18. Knowledge Is Power                      325



19. Can't You Hear The Whistle Blowin'?     339



Appendix                                    364







                     BOOK ONE



                     1970-1989



      "Who shall stand guard to the guards themselves?"



                                             -- Juvenal 







                   THE PREMISE



Votescam asserts the unthinkable.



It is a strange and frightening true detective story. It contains fact, film,

documents and visions seldom seen by the public. It is a troubling look

at the corruption of the American vote that most Americans cannot

bear to believe is even partly true.



The authors assert, and back it up with daring reporting, that your vote

and mine may now be a meaningless bit of energy directed by

preprogrammed computers -- which can be fixed to select certain

pre-ordained candidates and leave no footprints or paper trail. 



In short, computers are covertly stealing your vote.



+ For almost three decades the American vote has been subject to

government-sponsored electronic theft. 



+ The vote has been stolen from you by a cartel of federal "national

security" bureaucrats, who include higher-ups in the Central

Intelligence Agency, political party leaders, Congressmen, co-opted

journalists -- and the owners and managers of the major Establishment

news media, who have decided in concert that how America's votes

are counted, by whom they are counted and how the results are

verified and delivered to the public is, as one of them put it, "Not a

proper area of inquiry."



+ By means of an unofficial private corporation named News Election

Service (NES), the Establishment press has actual physical control of

the counting and dissemination of the vote, and it refuses to let the

public know how it is done.



This book also contends that the theft of your vote or Votescam, is

part of a supposedly patriotic "collaboration" between federal officials

and the news media that began shortly after the assassination of John

F. Kennedy in 1963, when the "responsible" American press was

persuaded by American intelligence services to hide from the American

people the actual implications of the Kennedy murder.



My brothers, Jim and Ken Collier, report this story as if the "hounds of

hell," as Ken used to put it, were snapping at their journalistic heels.



I, too, am a journalist and editor by profession, and a skeptic by

training. Yet, as hard as I have tried not to, I now believe they were

actually holding the tail of an elephantine conspiracy that they

uncovered, inch by heart-rending inch.



After reading Votescam, the impatient citizen may well ask: "Why if

there is truth in the charges, are there no indictments?"



That question is one of many provoked by Votescam's reporting, and

if Americans actually value their vote then there will be indictments

based on this book's data and documentation. 



My brothers peeked behind Oz's curtain and into a voting booth where

people of power had secret hold of all the levers -- as well as all the

keys on the computer keyboard.



Yes, that's one hell of a conspiracy and it -- as Jim and Ken uncorked

it -- doesn't stop there. You may be shocked, annoyed, angry

astounded or alarmed to find out where and how deep my brothers

feel it penetrates.



Votescam is one of the weirdest trips 1990s Americans may take. My

hope is that you will suspend disbelief for a while and read it with an

open mind. If it raises questions you will demand answers.



Answers to "improper inquiries" is what this book is about. It's what

excellent journalism, in its best days, is also about.



                                        Barnard L. Collier

                                        New York City 1992