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Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Skull & Bones & Iowa

From TelevisionWeek 2004 01 05:

Associated Press takes over vote-tallying chores for the defunct Voter News Service, the exit poll consortium that previously provided network news divisions with race projections. VNS was funded by the Associated Press, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and CNN.
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AP refined the Sun Microsystems computer system to analyze results more closely for vote drops, inconsistencies, changes in leadership in races, order-entry mistakes and other nuances, Mr. Jory said. Algorithms built into the computer system should be able to pinpoint data that seems off, but the people running the system on election night also must be vigilant when eyeballing information.

Voter News Service was co-owned by the networks. You know -- Sir Rupert Murdoch; the military-industrial complex's General Electric; Colin Powell and Ted Turner's TimeWarner. Now, those same fine folks have instead paid Associated Press to run something called VoteStream exclusively for them. According to this report, Votestream runs on SunMicrosystems. SunMicrosystems is heavy in Homeland pork, ca$hing in on USA PATRIOT Act and RFID snoopware.

So, the software is 'new,' though essentially owned by the same people and corporations as before. How does the wetware, the human factor, fit in to counting votes in Iowa?

Now-dead votefraud investigator Jim Condit reported on the Iowa Caucuses in 2000:

The Republican Caucus, broadcast on C-Span from Precinct 3 in Decorah, Iowa, showed the Caucus Temporary Chairman, Jim Burns, responding to a question about WHERE he was calling the precinct vote. Mr. Burns responded that the Party had set up a "Central Location" in Des Moines into which results were to be called and punched in on the touch tone phone. On the screen, as a subheading superimposed on the precinct, C-Span showed this quizzical statement: "At each of the precinct caucuses, the chairmen phones the results to a central location in Des Moines." ? Run by who? Does the phone forward the call to New York City? We don't know. ? Significantly, the EXACT same wording was displayed on the screen during the Democratic Caucus which C-Span broadcast from Ames, Iowa. This heightens our suspicion that this "central location in Des Moines" is a "touch tone" front for Voter News Service, which entity, we suspect, is counting both Caucuses. Probably this has been obscured from even the rank and file in both parties.
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They have made a touch tone telephone system the reporting system, thus taking the county chairmen out of the loop - if C-Span was given proper information that all precinct chairmen report straight to the touch tone system. This touch tone system would make it even more difficult to check the results, since only each Precinct Chairman and the "Central location" would have the results. This makes it a near Herculean task for the average citizen to be able to verify the results, unless County Chairmen went to the extra effort to track down all their precinct chairmen and get the results separately. And then check them against the published results
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News reminder: The overwhelming number of Big Media polls until the last week or so told everyone that G.W. Bush had 60% to 70% of support in the Iowa GOP. Near-final results show both at only 41%.

ANALYSIS: Given the information about George W. Bush (Bones name, "Temporary"), how surprising is it, really, that Bonesman John Kerry came from being in the doghouse just days ago to winning the Iowa caucus vote?

Kerry was built up over the past week as magically "coming from behind" due to the veterans' vote. (Kerry committed atrocities as a Lieutenant in Vietnam before he became a Senator.) Watching the foxwarchannel coverage of the Kerry victory in Iowa was very interesting. Neocon Trotskyite imperialist William Kristol smirks that he had called a Kerry win a week ago. Veteran Democrat strategist Susan Estrich remarks on how odd the results are, given that tons of Howard Dean people were visibly swarming everywhere throughout the day. Veteran Beltway election analyst Michael Barone said that it was the Saddam capture psy-op that turned people to Kerry.