A Brief History of Computerized Election Fraud in America (Excerpts)
  By Victoria Collier

  Squadrons of shiny new touch screen Trojan horses are being rolled into
precincts across America. Not, as we are told, to make voting easier or more
accurate. The real reason America is being flooded with billions of dollars
worth of paperless computerized voting machines is so that no one will be able
to prove vote fraud. These machines are not just unverifiable, they are
secretly programmed. Their software is not open to scrutiny by election
officials or computer experts. They are also equipped with modems accessible by
computer, telephone, and satellite.

  We the People are responsible for taking back the control of our democratic
process. No one else will do it for us. We cannot afford to be naive, or
uneducated at this time in history. In order to fully understand the extent of
the corruption we are dealing with, and to avoid making dangerous mistakes
based on ignorance, we must understand the history, and the power structure,
behind vote fraud in America.

  I grew up with two men who spent twenty-five years investigating vote fraud
in America: James and Kenneth Collier, my father and uncle. Their book,
Votescam: The Stealing of America was published in 1992 and immediately banned
by the major book chains, which listed the book as "out of print" and actively
worked to prevent its sale. Votescam chronicles the Collier brother's
groundbreaking investigation into America's multi-billion dollar election
rigging industry, and the corporate government and media officials who control
it. [First five chapters available free online]

  The Votescam investigation began in 1970, in -- surprise! -- Dade County,
Florida, where Ken ran for Congress (with Jim as his campaign manager). Ken was
rigged out of the election through a vote scam, which the Colliers later
discovered was used throughout the country for decades. It went like this: The
local newscaster would announce during the broadcast of election returns that
the election "computer has broken down." Instead of giving official returns
from the county courthouse, the networks would be running vote "projections"
for the rest of the night.

  Jim and Ken, who had garnered 30 percent of the vote, noticed that when the
vote totals came back on the screen after the announcement, they had
mysteriously lost 15 percentage points. They didn't get another vote for the
rest of the night. When they examined the "official" election results from for
the September primary, October run-off and November final election in Dade
County, the record listed a total of 141,000 votes cast for the governors race
in each election. The exact same number of total votes were cast for three
elections with a different number of candidates running each time. The same
identical figures were listed for the Senate race in the primary, run-off and
final election. This, of course, is a statistical impossibility.

  When they compared the "official" vote results with a print-out of the vote
"projections" broadcast by the TV networks on the final election night, they
found that channel 4 had "projected" with near perfect accuracy the results of
40 races with 250 candidates only 4 minutes after the polls closed. Channel 7
came even closer; at 9:31 pm, they "projected" the final vote total for a race
at 96,499 votes. When the Colliers checked the "official" number . . . it was
also 96,499.

  The networks then made the astonishing claim that the results from a single
voting machine somewhere in Dade County were run through a computer program in
order to get these vote projections. Elton Davis was the computer programmer
responsible for the magic formula that could convert one machine's vote results
into near perfect projected vote totals for 40 races and 250 candidates. When
Jim and Ken confronted Davis in his office at the University of Miami, he
responded: "You'll never prove it, now get out."

  Finally the networks claimed that members of the League of Women Voters were
out in the field on election night, calling in vote totals to channels 4 and 7.
When the Colliers confronted the head of the League, Joyce Deiffenderfer, she
admitted that there were no LWV members out in the field that night. She broke
down crying, saying "I don't want to get caught up in this thing.

  When the TV networks claimed that the courthouse computer had broken down,
and they would no longer be reporting actual vote totals, they were lying. They
had never been reporting actual vote totals. The final shoe dropped months
later when an official press release appeared from Dade data processing chief,
Leonard White, which stated emphatically: The county computer at the courthouse
was never down, and it was never slow.

  This was the beginning. The Collier brothers had slammed their boat into the
tip of a giant iceberg. As they continued to investigate, they were horrified
to discover vote fraud collusion among key individuals in every branch and on
every level of the American political system. Those who were not benefiting
from the fraud were too afraid to fight it. Their search for justice led to
dead-ends. Their lives were threatened. They were vilified as conspiracy
theorists by the mainstream press . . . and yet they persevered.

  The next quarter century was spent compiling a wealth of FBI documented
evidence proving that elections in the United States have come under the tight
control of a handful of powerful and corrupt people.  Jim and Ken both died
young during the 90's, as heroes to many thousands who heard them speak on the
radio and at political meetings across the country. They helped to guide
individuals and groups working for clean elections in their communities. The
Collier's last hope was that Votescam would be used as evidence in a serious
Congressional investigation into election fraud.

  Many people still in power have yet to be held accountable for their role in
aiding and abetting vote fraud. I'll give you two important examples. Famous
Miami lawyer Ellis Rubin brought the original Votescam evidence to the Florida
assistant State Attorney at the time, Janet Reno. The evidence included the
shaved wheels of lever voting machines, forged canvass sheets, and pre-printed
vote tally sheets. Reno refused to prosecute, claiming falsely that the statue
of limitations had run out on the crime. Years later, Rubin would tell my
father that behind closed doors Reno had stated that she could not prosecute.
Why? Because she would bring down many of the most powerful people in the
state.

  Another notable Votescam criminal can now be found sitting on the bench of
the highest court in the nation. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, while
still a Federal Appeals Judge, single handedly destroyed what would have been
an historic lawsuit filed against Justice Department lawyer Craig Donsanto, who
had refused to prosecute the extensive vote fraud evidence brought to him by
the Colliers. The evidence included videotape of the League of Women voters
tampering with ballots in a close door vote "counting" session. The women were
illegally punching holes in already cast ballots.

  I'd like to offer a brief list of important lessons learned from twenty-five
years of fighting vote fraud in the trenches.
Secret vote counting is illegal. Counting faster is not a justification for
counting secretly.
Lever machines were the first to appear, and they were riggable in a number of
ways. One could rig the lever machine itself, or the electronic scanning
machines that counted the ballots. (See the Votescam video for footage of
ballot rigging).
Computerized voting machines are the easiest to rig. Their software is not open
to public scrutiny, or the scrutiny of Election Supervisors. There are nearly
infinite ways to program the machines to count votes fraudulently. Since they
are accessible by modem, they can be controlled from a remote, centralized
location.
Voting machine companies operate with no federal oversight, certification
process, standards or restrictions. Just two companies -- Election Systems and
Software (ES&S) and Diebold Voting Systems -- now control about 80% of the vote
count in the U.S.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties have been complicit in vote rigging
for decades, to their mutual benefit. Vote rigging is NOT a partisan issue.
The corporate major media networks play a vital role in perpetrating and
covering up vote fraud.
Election Day media polls are untrustworthy at best.
  The gravest error of judgment these days comes from those vote reformers who
honestly believe that the answer to the butterfly ballot and hanging chad
problems in the 2000 election is to embrace the ballot-less computerized voting
machine. With the ballot-less computer, there is no way to recount, no way to
prove any discrepancy, inaccuracy or fraud. Just the fact that companies like
ES&S and Diebold would even make a ballot-less machine should be cause for a
Congressional investigation. (There are also many other reasons to investigate
them. For a detailed examination of these sinister corporations, check out
http://www.blackboxvoting.com )

  A most grave error of judgment also comes from those who think that returning
to a hand-counted paper ballot system is somehow impossible. An MIT/Cal Tech
study done in 2001 shows that manually counted paper ballots are the most
accurate system out of the 5 systems used in the last 4 presidential elections.
They are totally verifiable, and first-world nations across the globe still use
them, including Canada which counted their last presidential election in four
hours.

  The bottom line is that a computerized vote count is a secret vote count, and
that's illegal. Technology cannot supercede  the constitutional and mandatory
provisions of election law, which require open and verifiable elections. There
is no way to do a public vote count with computers. The count must be done by
hand, in public, video-taped, aired live on television, and the results posted
on the precinct wall  -- just like they used to be. Ballots should be counted
on the same day as the voting takes place, making it much more difficult to
alter ballots. Hand counted paper ballots and eternal vigilance are the only
hope left for us.

A long time writer and political activist, Victoria Collier continues to
educate the public on the subject of vote fraud in place of her father and
uncle. She is the editor of http://www.votescam.com  Victoria is available for
interviews and can be reached at 1-866-280-9090 and at edi...@votescam.com

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