View source for Voter News Service

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== History ==

=== Corporate ancestors ===
==== News Election Services ====
In 1964, one year after the [[JFK assassination]], an election reporting consortium called News Election Services (NES) was founded.

==== Voter Research and Surveys ====

=== Merger into VNS ===
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=== 2000 election ===

=== Dissolution in 2002 ===

== Employees ==
'''Executive director''': ..., [[Bill Headline]], ...

== Controversies ==
=== Vote rigging suspicion ===

=== CIA connection ===

=== Exit polls ===

== References ==
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<ref name="headline_int">[http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/votescam/collierinterview.htm Bill Headline interview by Victoria Collier, 2000/05/20]</ref>
</references>

== External links ==
* [http://www.votescam.org/ Website for ''Votescam'' by Jim and Ken Collier]
* Allegation by Leonard Gates that Cincinnati Bell and the [[FBI]] hacked county election mainframes
** [http://www.thelandesreport.com/donsanto.htm Lynn Landes, "Why won't the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate electronic vote fraud? Is it because the DOJ and FBI have long been involved in it, themselves?"] - discusses Craig Donsanto, head of the DOJ's Election Crimes division who also featured prominently in ''Votescam''
** [http://www.thelandesreport.com/GatesDeposition.PDF Leonard Gates deposition]
** [http://www.thelandesreport.com/Gates-Condit.PDF ''Cincinnati Post'', "Election Wire-tap Alleged Cincinnati Bell Denies Charges", 1987/11]
* [http://dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Landes_VNS-Suspicion.htm Lynn Landes speculation about VNS closing in 2002]
* [http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/12213-americas-media-just-made-vote-rigging-easier Victoria Collier explains in 2012 how Internet election reporting changed VNS's game]