BBV: Vote Fraud in America (from 1996)

For decades now, NBC, ABC and CBS have pretended on election night to be in hot competition to project the "the winner and loser." We know the act well: Dan, Peter or Tom comes on the air and solemnly intones, "We can now project that President X is the winner in Florida."

As a viewer I imagined bespectacled analysts sweating in back rooms; perhaps 30 accountants nervously crunching numbers--all in an attempt to get their anchorman on the air first with the projected winner. But now we know it was all a hoax. For all of the networks (CNN included) have been getting the exact same numbers at the exact same time from the exact same source--from a company that the networks appear to own jointly: Voter News Service (VNS).

How reliable is VNS? In the Iowa Caucuses VNS worked with lightning speed, ostensibly assembling the results of over 2,000 caucus gatherings, analyzing the data and turning them over to the Associated Press which announced the winner exactly one minute after the caucuses had opened and clearly before even one vote had been cast! VNS employees are either prophets or the whole process smells like the anchovies on last week' s pizza.

http://www.hoffman-info.com/votefraud.html

VNS was suppoosed to be an accuarate source based upon statistical analysis of exit polls....but caucauses don't lend themselves to those kinds of polls....

From the Condit article:

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The average American voting in 1996 is predisposed to believe the results announced on election night. Skeptics are asked, "Can you prove there was computer fraud? If you can't prove it nobody's going to listen."

First of all, whether a citizen can prove vote fraud is not the question The question is whether the Board of Elections officials can prove that they are running a verifiable election with a paper trail and checks and balances. After all, these administrators are supposed to be servants of the people. Instead most of them now act as if the business of elections is their specialty, if not their rightful monopoly.

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In an earlier clip during this CBS interview, Strauss had dropped this bombshell: "When it comes to computerized elections there are no safeguards. It's not a door without locks, it's a house without doors. "

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discussed in VoteScam. Unfortunately, that book provides no way of verifying what the authors wrote... -C