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** [http://www.thelandesreport.com/Gates-Condit.PDF ''Cincinnati Post'', "Election Wire-tap Alleged Cincinnati Bell Denies Charges", 1987/11] | ** [http://www.thelandesreport.com/Gates-Condit.PDF ''Cincinnati Post'', "Election Wire-tap Alleged Cincinnati Bell Denies Charges", 1987/11] | ||
** [https://article25news.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/privacy-died-long-ago/ Gregory Flannery, "The great forgotten Cincinnati wiretap scandal", 2013/06/03]: "In 1979, he [Gates] testified, he was ordered to wiretap the Hamilton County Regional Computer Center, which handled vote tabulations. His handler at the phone company allegedly told Gates the wiretap was intended to manipulate election results. “They had the ability to actually alter what was being done with the votes. … He was very upset through some of the elections with a gentleman named Blackwell,” Gates testified. [[Ken Blackwell|J. Kenneth Blackwell]] is a former member of Cincinnati Council, and 1979 was an election year for council." Interestingly, at that time, Blackwell was a left-leaning independent who became mayor of Cincinnati under the Charter Party, but he soon made an abrupt switch to hardcore conservative Republican in 1981. Then he himself would be involved with election rigging in the [[2004 Ohio general election|2004 Ohio election]]. | ** [https://article25news.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/privacy-died-long-ago/ Gregory Flannery, "The great forgotten Cincinnati wiretap scandal", 2013/06/03]: "In 1979, he [Gates] testified, he was ordered to wiretap the Hamilton County Regional Computer Center, which handled vote tabulations. His handler at the phone company allegedly told Gates the wiretap was intended to manipulate election results. “They had the ability to actually alter what was being done with the votes. … He was very upset through some of the elections with a gentleman named Blackwell,” Gates testified. [[Ken Blackwell|J. Kenneth Blackwell]] is a former member of Cincinnati Council, and 1979 was an election year for council." Interestingly, at that time, Blackwell was a left-leaning independent who became mayor of Cincinnati under the Charter Party, but he soon made an abrupt switch to hardcore conservative Republican in 1981. Then he himself would be involved with election rigging in the [[2004 Ohio general election|2004 Ohio election]]. | ||
| + | * 1988 New Hampshire primary and Governor John H. Sununu | ||
| + | ** [https://freepress.org/article/new-hampshire-birthplace-electronic-election-theft Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, "NEW HAMPSHIRE THE BIRTHPLACE OF ELECTRONIC ELECTION THEFT", 2016/02/08] | ||
| + | ** [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/06/us/new-hampshire-leaders-split-over-computer.html ''New York Times'', "NEW HAMPSHIRE LEADERS SPLIT OVER COMPUTER", 1985/05/06] | ||
| + | ** [https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/11/17/Personality-SpotlightNEWLNNew-Hampshires-high-tech-Gov-John-Sununu/5490595746000/ ''UPI'', "Personality Spotlight: New Hampshire's high-tech Gov. John Sununu", 1988/11/17] | ||
| + | ** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1989/05/15/all-the-presidents-pcs-from-sununu-on-down-ibms-reign-wanes/ffcf09c2-f68c-4318-8a5d-b75424252047/ ''Washington Post'', "ALL THE PRESIDENT'S PCS FROM SUNUNU ON DOWN, IBM'S REIGN WANES", 1989/05/15] - mentions that Sununu was indeed a computer engineer: "Sununu, an engineer, is an old hand at computers, having done programming on mainframes back when it was entered on punch cards. When he was governor of New Hampshire, he had an IBM AT, which he used to download budget and purchasing data from the state's mainframe system. Sununu used a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet to analyze the numbers." | ||
* [http://dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Landes_VNS-Suspicion.htm Lynn Landes speculation about VNS closing in 2002] | * [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] | * [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] | ||
Revision as of 18:45, 25 March 2018
Contents
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
2000 election
Dissolution in 2002
Employees
Executive director: ..., Bill Headline, ...
Controversies
Vote rigging suspicion
CIA connection
Exit polls
References
External links
- Website for Votescam by Jim and Ken Collier
- Lynn Landes compilation of election fraud and irregularities
- Allegation by Leonard Gates that Cincinnati Bell and the FBI hacked county election mainframes
- 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
- Leonard Gates deposition
- Cincinnati Post, "Election Wire-tap Alleged Cincinnati Bell Denies Charges", 1987/11
- Gregory Flannery, "The great forgotten Cincinnati wiretap scandal", 2013/06/03: "In 1979, he [Gates] testified, he was ordered to wiretap the Hamilton County Regional Computer Center, which handled vote tabulations. His handler at the phone company allegedly told Gates the wiretap was intended to manipulate election results. “They had the ability to actually alter what was being done with the votes. … He was very upset through some of the elections with a gentleman named Blackwell,” Gates testified. J. Kenneth Blackwell is a former member of Cincinnati Council, and 1979 was an election year for council." Interestingly, at that time, Blackwell was a left-leaning independent who became mayor of Cincinnati under the Charter Party, but he soon made an abrupt switch to hardcore conservative Republican in 1981. Then he himself would be involved with election rigging in the 2004 Ohio election.
- 1988 New Hampshire primary and Governor John H. Sununu
- Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, "NEW HAMPSHIRE THE BIRTHPLACE OF ELECTRONIC ELECTION THEFT", 2016/02/08
- New York Times, "NEW HAMPSHIRE LEADERS SPLIT OVER COMPUTER", 1985/05/06
- UPI, "Personality Spotlight: New Hampshire's high-tech Gov. John Sununu", 1988/11/17
- Washington Post, "ALL THE PRESIDENT'S PCS FROM SUNUNU ON DOWN, IBM'S REIGN WANES", 1989/05/15 - mentions that Sununu was indeed a computer engineer: "Sununu, an engineer, is an old hand at computers, having done programming on mainframes back when it was entered on punch cards. When he was governor of New Hampshire, he had an IBM AT, which he used to download budget and purchasing data from the state's mainframe system. Sununu used a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet to analyze the numbers."
- Lynn Landes speculation about VNS closing in 2002
- Victoria Collier explains in 2012 how Internet election reporting changed VNS's game
