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The groundbreaking investigation into the corruption of American democracy, beginning at the voting booth
This book is the culmination of a 25-year investigation into computerized vote fraud in the United States. Journalists James and Kenneth Collier pose the question, Why cant we vote the bastards out? Their answer: Because we didnt even vote the bastards in.
Votescam fills in the blanks for anyone who senses that their ballot is worthless, but does not know why. It tracks down, confronts, and calls the names of Establishment thieves who silently steal votes for their own profit. It comes face-to-face with the Supreme Court justice who buried key vote fraud evidence; the most powerful female publisher in America, who refused to permit her newspapers and television stations to expose vote rigging; the Attorney General who jailed Jim Collier to avoid an investigation into vote fraud; and a cast of weak-kneed, corrupt politicians, lawyers,...
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All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this book or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.
Copyright 2012 by Victoria Collier
Cover design by Kat JK Lee
978-1-5040-1990-3
This edition published in 2015 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
345 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
www.openroadmedia.com
To our daughters
Amy, Unity and Victoria
Book One
19701989
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 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 computerswhich 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 securitys bureaucrats, who include higher-ups in the Central Intelligence Agency, political party leaders, Congressmen, co-opted journalistsand the owners and managers of the major Establishment news media, who have decided in concert that how Americas 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 books data and documentation.
My brothers peeked behind Ozs curtain and into a voting booth where people of power had secret hold of all the leversas well as all the keys on the computer keyboard.
Yes, thats one hell of a conspiracy, and itas Jim and Ken uncorked it doesnt 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. Its what excellent journalism, in its best days, is also about.
Barnard L. Collier
New York City, 1992
In 1964 it was born News Election Services (NES), a consortium of ABC, CBS, NBC, AP, and UPI. In 1994 NES merged with Voter Research and Survey (VRS) to become Voter News Service (VNS), which included CNN and Fox News. In 2002 it morphed again to become News Election Pool (NEP).
Electronic Hoodwink
We can now speak the most majestic words a democracy can offer: The people have spoken
First words spoken by President-elect, George Bush, November , 1988 victory speechin Houston, Texas, : PM EST.
Once, during the time when days were darker, I made a promise. Thanks, New Hampshire!
Same speech, final words.
I t was not the People of the United States of America who did the speaking on that election day, although most of them believed it was, and still believe so.
In fact, the People did not speak at all, and George Bush may have known it or, at least, strongly suspected it.
The voices most of us really heard that day were the voices of computersstrong, loud, authoritative, unquestioned in their electronic finality. The computers counted more than million American votes in 1988 more than enough to swing election after election across the nation. In that election, a difference of just , or so votes would have put Dukakis into the White House.
The computers that spoke in November 1988 held in their inner workings small boxes that contained secret codes that only the sellers of the computers could read. The programs, or source codes, were regarded as trade secrets, The sellers of the vote-counting software zealously guarded their programs from the public, from election officials, from everyoneon the dubious grounds that competitors could steal their ideas if the source codes were open to inspection.
You may ask: What ideas does it require to count something as simple as ballots?
Can the ideas be much more complex than, lets say, a supermarket computerized cash register or an automatic bank teller machine?
The computer voting machines do not have to do anything complicated at all; they simply must be able to register votes for the correct candidate or party or proposal, tabulate them, count them up, and deliver arithmetically correct additions. People with no formal training, even children, used to do it all the time.
So why cant the public know what those secret source codes instruct the computers to do? It only makes common sense that every gear, every mechanism, every nook and cranny of every part of the voting process ought to be in the sunlight, wide open to public view.
How else can the public be reasonably assured that they are participating in an unrigged election where their vote actually means something?
Yet one of the most mysterious, low-profile, covert, shadowy, questionable mechanisms of American democracy is the American vote count.
There is so profound a public despair about keeping the vote system honest that a man with immaculate academic credentials can sound the alarm on Dan Rathers CBS Evening Newscharging that Americas elections are being compromised by computer felonsand still get only three calls about it.
Dr. Howard Strauss, a Princeton computer sciences professor and a member of a tiny nationwide group of worried citizens who call themselves Election Watch, says:
The presidential election of 1992 , without too much difficulty and with little chance of the felons getting caught, could be stolen by computers for one candidate or another. The candidate who can win by computer has worked far enough ahead to rig the election by getting his consultants to write the software that runs thousands of vote-counting computers from coast to coast. There are so many computers that use the same software now that a presidential election can be tampered within fact, may already be tampered with. Because of the trade secrecy, nobody can be the wiser.
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