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- This is the most important Network America e-wire we,ve
sent out yet, especially for those who have the general principles more
or less down, but are now looking for specifics. But first . . .
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- NEWSFLASH: Before beginning today,s official e-wire,
let the record show that on C-Span,s January 20, 2000 Thursday morning
call-in program Alan Keyes stated in a response to a question concerning
the Presidential Debates Commission that 1) the public opinion polls are
often phony and should play no role in the who gets in the Presidential
Debates, and 2) that if a party and Presidential candidate can meet an
objective standard, such as getting on the ballot in enough states to theoretically
win the Presidential election, then that Presidential candidate should
be included in the debate; he specifically mentioned Patrick Buchanan /
Reform Party and Howard Phillips / Constitution Party as two efforts which
are serious and should be included in the Presidential Debates if they
get on the ballot in enough states.
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- Microcosm of how our election system has been compromised:
The Iowa Caucus
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- By Jim Condit, Jr
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- Just so everyone understands, the Iowa Caucus operates
like 2000 classroom elections. There are 2000+ caucuses in each major party,
one for each party in each of the 2000+ precincts in Iowa. (A precinct
is about 5 or six streets around one,s house, a little larger geographically
in rural areas, and usually housing 200 to 800 eligible voters. )
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- First we,ll take a brief look at the actual mechanics.
Then we will examine a letter by Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) in which
he tries to defend the mechanics of the 1996 Iowa Caucus, and in so doing
unwittingly provides us with a perfect illustration of why a tiny but well
organized elite has succeeded in wresting the election process away from
the American people during the last quarter century.
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- Using the GOP side of the Iowa Caucuses, Republicans
gather in living rooms, café,s, high school classrooms, and social
lodges all across Iowa. Each eligible voter must attend his own neighborhood
precinct meeting, if he wants to vote at all. In 1996, about 100,000 people
participated in the Republican Caucuses, or a little less than 50 voters
per precinct on average.
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- At each precinct meeting a set agenda is suggested by
the state party, although many precincts just vote for the Presidential
candidates. The voting in the GOP is done on a piece of paper. Then the
votes are counted immediately with all factions welcome to participate
or witness the count. THIS IS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE DONE.
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- Next the total vote count for that precinct is reported
to the GOP County Chairman (there are 99 counties in Iowa, and 99 county
chairmen). Next each county chairman calls the total vote for his county
into a central location " in 1996 that central tabulating center was
Voter News Service in New York City, the exit polling arm of AP wire, ABC,
CBS, NBC, and CNN. (On our website www.networkamerica.org there is a button
in the lefthand column which leads to a picture of a Voter News Service
exit poll box used in New Hampshire which we videotaped ourselves. This
box has the logos of all the above mentioned TV Networks and wire services.
Ted Koppel showed an identical box at a different location on the Nov.
2, 1996 Nightline in a lame attempt to try and refute the contention that
the election night "competition between the Big TV networks to project
winners and loser is a hoax. We have that on videotape also.)
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- Whether or not Voter News Service is "counting the
GOP Iowa Caucus vote in 2000 is not yet confirmed. If you are in Iowa and
you will be with a County Chairman, it will be on his tally sheet where
he should call his results. If anyone in Iowa can confirm who is counting
the Iowa Caucus Republican and Democratic county vote, it would be greatly
appreciated. I think you will find that both the Democratic Iowa Caucus
and the Republican Iowa Caucus in counted by the TV networks and Voter
News Service. If we can confirm that, I will do an entire e-wire just on
the implications of such a state of affairs. If you can help us out with
that, please email us at netamerica@unidial.com thanks.
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- In any case, in 1996, the tally sheet told the County
Chairman to call his county totals into Voter News Service, and reminded
the County Chairman that the first 10 or so who called their totals into
New York City would get a free Voter News Service mug (whooppeee!).
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- The final step is that Voter News Service announces the
totals " or partial totals, as was the case in 1996. The final totals
for 1996 have never been released to this day. (Please bear in mind the
timing involved: as explained in our last e-wire, the Networks claim to
be able to accurately project the caucus 1 minute after the Iowa Caucus
begins and before even one vote has been cast, based on supposed Voter
News Service ENTRANCE polls. Then Voter News Service claims to be able
to tabulate enough of the Caucus vote to go home by 11:15 PM that night,
four hours and fifteen minutes after the Caucus begins. BUT when it comes
to getting the FINAL totals, explaining discrepancies, and answering questions
about their performance -- neither the Iowa GOP nor Voter News Service
are able to accomplish the task even with four years to do it in.
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- The reality is this: the Iowa GOP relinquishes its responsibility
to count the Iowa Caucus Vote to Voter News Service so that it will insulate
itself from any discovered vote manipulation. The fact that the GOP trusts
the 4 Big TV Networks and their exit polling arm to do the counting for
the Iowa Caucus " should tell all who are not totally brain dead volumes
about the way this country really is working. Then, when vote fraud must
be done, as we believe was the case in 1996, Voter News Service deliberately
stops the count and goes home (as least that,s what they tell use) before
finishing. They know from experience that once the TV networks have announced
the winner, they can go home and NEVER release a final count. And that,s
exactly what they did in the 1996 Iowa GOP Caucuses.
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- In 1996, the Voter News Service abruptly announced that
vote tabulation was being cut off at 11:15 P.M. Did they have a bedtime
curfew?? Of course they did NOT have a bedtime curfew. They cut off the
counting at that point in 1996 so as not to reflect over the airwaves the
strong Buchanan vote in Dubuque and Souix City, " they didn,t want
the public to get the impression that Buchanan had finished strongly ahead
of Dole anywhere. (The same thing happened at the despicable GOP Convention
in San Diego in August, 1996 when the GOP Gangsters actually tried to prevent
even on Buchanan vote from being announced on during the convention roll
call. They didn,t succeed, but they illegally denied hundreds of Buchanan
votes from being announced on the floor. This story was published by us
in 1996, and will be on our website soon.) But most importantly, the reason
VNS went home before the final tally was announced was to leave some loose
ends in case they were caught red-handed in the votefraud by a voice loud
enough to be heard, in which case they would feign confusion and backtrack.
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- Macrocosm of how our election system has been compromised
nationwide:
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- In our e-wire of a few days ago, we promised to explain
HOW it could be that a handful of mega-software companies could gain so
much power over our voting system with no checks and balances. Senator
Charles Grassley,s (R-Iowa) remarkably candid letter tells us how.
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- Listen to what Senator Charles Grassley said in response
to a letter from Mrs. Lois Pusateri of Dubuque, Iowa asking if Voter News
Service was counting the vote (his letter is on file):
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- Grassley: "To start with, let me explain the system.
Seeking to ensure an honest reporting of voting information, since 1988,
the Iowa Caucuses have operated under the system whereby the precinct
gives its results to the county which, in turn, passes the information
on to the "official reporting outlet, the Voter News Service (VNS).
All reports go directly from the county to VNS. The State Republican Party
has no role in this reporting process and no independent verification of
the votes. VNS is the first entity to get the results and then it reports
them. I don,t know for certain why there was a discrepancy between what
you saw reported and what the actual numbers were, but there is a significant
lag time between the time the votes are cast and when the state party gets
the final, confirmed information from the county. This is why the final
numbers aren,t available for several weeks. I certainly understand your
concern regarding voting fraud. It is, indeed, a very serious matter. But,
under the system I described above, I believe a fair accounting of the
Iowa Caucuses takes place. Please contact me again when you have questions
or concerns on any matter.
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- By the way, the entire nation owes a debt of gratitude
to Mr. and Mrs. Sam & Lois Pusateri of Dubuque, Iowa for gathering,
preserving, and extracting information (such as the Grassley letter) and
research on the Dubuque, Iowa votefraud. This investigation would have
been a shadow of itself without them. (The response to Sen. Grassley by
Mrs. Pusateri is on our website, in archives, in the votefraud section,
in the section about the 1996 GOP Primaries.)
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- Also, the Dubuque story would not have been uncovered
in such detail without the hawkeye observation and investigation of Tim
Wozniak, at that time a student at Loras College in Iowa, who noticed in
the midst of the Dubuque County caucuses that the county chairmen were
calling their vote into Voter News Service, Doug Zeitz, and Chris Schaper,
both Buchanan Brigaders who flew in from California for the last week of
the Caucus, and amidst doing many other vital tasks, noticed as they were
about to Board their plane back to California on the morning after the
Caucus that the results reported in the Cedar Rapids Gazette (via AP and
Voter News Service) had shorted Buchanan in Dubuque County, by a full 13%
of his vote.
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- Now let,s analyze Senator Grassley,s above letter in
catechism form (Q & A), and from it extrapolate information which tells
us how and why public officials all across the United States have abdicated
their solemn responsibilities to the American Voter.
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- Q. Does Senator Grassley confirm that the GOP has turned
its authority over the Iowa Caucus vote count to the exit polling arm of
ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and AP wire? A. Yes, Senator Grassley forthrightly
confirms this. He calls VNS the "official reporting outlet, and further
tells us that it,s been going on since at least 1988.
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- Q. Does Grassley tell us that both the Democratic side
of the Iowa Caucus and the Republican side of the Iowa Caucus are entrusted
to Voter News Service? A. Yes, he seems to say that, as he does not restrict
his comments to the "Republican Iowa Caucus but simply talks about
the Iowa Caucus.
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- Q. Is Senator Grassley concerned that his party has turned
the final tabulating process over to a New York City based private company,
which we know, and he should know, is an arm of the Big TV networks? A.
Not at all. He states that he believes "under the system I described
above that "a fair accounting of the Iowa Caucuses takes place.
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- Q. Why does Senator Grassley say he believes this? A.
He doesn,t say, and he is reproached for this glaring omission by Mrs.
Lois Pusateri in a follow up letter, for she had asked him this exact question
in her initial letter.
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- Q. Is Grassley concerned that the Iowa GOP has totally
relinquished its responsibility in the vote count to VNS? A. Not at all.
He seems only to be concerned about making it clear that the GOP has no
part WHATSOEVER in the count. He says, "The State Republican Party
has no role in this reporting process and no independent verification of
the votes. VNS is the first entity to get the results and then it reports
them.
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- Q. How does he address Mrs. Pusateri,s question as to
why the final results have not been published even 3 months after the Caucus
was over? A. Incredibly, Grassley defends this absurdity on the part of
the Iowa GOP and VNS by stating "there is a significant lag time between
the time the votes are cast and when the state party gets the final, confirmed
information from the county. This is why the final numbers aren,t available
for several weeks.
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- Q. But isn,t Grassley,s letter dated June 6, 1996 a
full fifteen weeks after the Iowa Caucuses? A. Yes, it is. It doesn,t seem
to cross Grassley,s mind that the 99 GOP County Chairmen of Iowa can call
in their final results to Voter News Service in 4 hours, but that these
same 99 County Chairman can,t get their results to the Iowa State GOP Headquarters
in 4 months (by now 4 years).
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- Q. Doesn,t Grassley address the question as to why the
final results still hadn,t been released at the time of his letter, or
why the Dubuque total is still falsified, shorting Buchanan 13% of his
vote? A. No, he does not.
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- Q. Doesn,t Grassley express any concern about the situation?
A. Yes, he states that he understands Mrs. Pusateri,s "concern regarding
voting fraud. It is, indeed, a very serious matter.
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- Q. Is Senator Grassley talking like a moron? A. Yes,
he is.
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- Q. But is he talking any less absurdly and cravenly than
election officials and elected officials across the United States of America?
A. No, he is not talking any less or any more absurdly than the others.
They all sound alike when addressing the "votefraud vs. honest elections
issue. He sounds like a bought and paid for company man who must stick
to the party line if he wants to have a chance to remain where he is.
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- And the Grassley attitude is the exact same attitude
we find exhibited by Board of Elections officials and Secretaries of State
all over the country. The changes in law after Watergate gave the major
parties at the National level a greatly increased power of the state and
local parties. By 1999-2000, all you have left are petty people and petty
bureaucrat types in all those election related positions. (We,d love to
find some exceptions.)
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- The election officials we have run into across the country
fit into one of three categories: 1) Ambitious climbers who want to prove
to the party they are loyal, and who wouldn,t THINK of rocking the boat
no matter what was at stake; and 2) aging women who need the job; and 3)
bureaucratic types who have never had a better job and don,t want to lose
it for any reason.
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- By the late 1980,s the computer revolution in elections
that began about 1973 was almost completed. These individuals "serving
in election-related positions are by the late 80,s told that such and so
a company will provide the software and the know-how "all they had
to do is sign the results as "True about a week after the election.
Easy. Convenient. No fuss. No muss.
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- Item: In the 1999 Iowa Straw Poll, the county Board of
Election Supervisor was running the count. After the press conference which
was held about 24 hours before Straw Poll, I was able to ask the Elections
Supervisor who programmed the software which they used to count the votes.
She couldn,t say. Pressed a second and third time, she said someone in
her office. Turning to a co-worker, she said something like, "Isn,t
Bob involved in that? No full name was ever given. Typical. That,s the
way they all are. She was a nice lady, in way over her head.
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- When they do give a name, it usually means that that
person loads the software onto their computers, which means absolutely
nothing. Any honest programmer will tell you there are numerous ways to
warp an election, and even have the program hide what it did after the
voting hours are over. Honest programmers will tell you that no one can
really read a computer program except the person who wrote it.
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- Item: Under oath, in Cincinnati during our case against
the Hamilton County Board of Elections in 1985, the Board of Elections
admitted that no one locally could read the software used to count the
election ballots. Computer expert Robert Strunk gave a massive expert opinion
to the court on this, on our website.
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- Item: In a mid 1980,s case in West Virginia, State Representative
Leo Underwood, a Protestant Pastor found it odd that he had gotten exactly
11 votes in every last precinct in an "unsuccessful bid for the state
Senate. He sued and finally got the local programmers to the stand. All
took the fifth amendment. Since he knew them all, he later asked why. They
told him that their lawyers told them they must, because since none of
them could read the program provided by the national mega-software company,
none of them could say for sure if there was fraud or not.
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- Item: Every judge in every part of the country in the
United States has blocked inspection of any computer program ever contested
in court, which amounts to over a dozen cases. One of these cases (from
Indiana) was covered on that lone Dan Rather CBS Evening News 5 minute
report which appeared in early November, 1988 (we have it on videotape).
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- Item: In 1996, Pat Buchanan,s local chairman, Dan Giroux,
went to Hamilton County election headquarters on Primary night, and asked
to see the vote being counted. "Can,t, Bruce Taylor, head of the BOE
at that time. "Why? asked Giroux. "It might compromise ballot
security. Dan Giroux later told me he wondered, "Whose security?
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- Item: On the Wednesday morning after the 1999 November
Cincinnati City Council Election, the head of the local Democratic Party,
Tim Burke, and the head of the local Republican Party, Mike Allen, appeared
on the Jerry and Craig Morning Talk show on 55 WKRC radio.
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- I called in and asked them on air, with tens of thousands
of people listening if it were not true that, as heads of the Board of
Elections as well as heads of the local major parties, they would sign
a document stating that the election results announced the night before
were "true. They both agreed.
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- I then asked them WHO what was the NAME of the person
who had programmed the computers to count the votes the night before. The
Democratic Chairman Tim Burke said, I think it,s so and so. Bluffing, I
snapped back: I think you,re wrong. Mr. Burke backed off.
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- Then the liberal host, Craig Kopp, said, "OK, Jim,
who is it? I responded that I had no idea, but that the heads of the two
major parties who were about to sign the computer-generated results as
true in their capacity as election officials, had just revealed before
tens of thousands of Cincinnatians that they didn,t even know who wrote
the program to generate the results they were going to sign as true.
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- Keep in mind that the system in use in 1999 was the same
crooked system about which Judge Niehaus had ruled that "There is
no safeguard against the computers being programmed to distort the election
results in 1985! (A crooked Appeals Court had overturned his decision
without comment in 1987.)
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- Now, if you met either Tim Burke or Mike Allen, you would
immediately recognize them as competent professionals. These guys are not
stupid. Nor are their backgrounds mysterious. Mike Allen went to Elder
High School a few years after I went to St. Xavier High School, and Tim
Burke graduated from the Latin/Greek/Philosophy program at Xavier University,
a few years before I did in the early 70s. But that,s what,s happened to
our election system. The monied Ruling Elite have erected a few computer
companies and a few voting machine companies. It,s so easy for those election
officials now. So convenient for the voters. All we have to do is go home
after work, turn on the TV, and watch the results. Just like microwaving
a cup of coffee.
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- This is what,s happening. This is the way in which election
officials in over 3000 counties, and all 50 Secretaries of State in all
50 states have been tempted and/or coaxed and/or ordered into relinquishing
their responsibilities and betraying the trust of the American people.
Did I say all 50 Secretaries of State? Yes. For even in New Hampshire,
30% of the precincts now count the votes by computer with no provision
for citizen checks and balances. That,s 3 out of 10 people whose right
to a fair election is not being protected " even in New Hampshire.
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- So while you,re watching the Iowa Caucus results this
Monday Night, think about these things. And try to figure out how it is
that the "talking heads on the Big TV networks are curious about everything
else, are allowed to talk about anything else " anything at all "
except how the vote is counted.
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- Jim Condit Jr., Director Citizens for a Fair Vote Count
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- To contact us, e-mail to: jconditjr@networkamerica.org
or netamerica@unidial.com
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- Please forward our messages to friends and opinion molders.
The year 2000 Presidential Campaign offers an opportunity to de-stablize
the New World Order Ruling Elite and restore honest elections with citizens
checks and balances, true Freedom and true Free Enterprise in America.
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- Let fellow citizens, opinion molders, pastors, public
officials, and the newsmedia know -- that we will not accept the 2000 Election
results unless paper ballots with citizen checks and balances are restored
to the process at the local precinct level.
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