What is Voter News Service (VNS)?

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Landes_Projections.htm

The news networks don't just report election news, they create it. But do they also conspire to control election results?



Voter News Service (VNS) is a top-secret private consortium owned by ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News. It's current headquarters is in Brooklyn, New York. It's been around (under different names) since 1964. It's the only company whose exit poll results are used by the news media to announce the "projected" winners in races for the president, U.S. House and Senate, state governors, and select races.



By 1964, computers were used to predict election outcomes, as well as to count votes on "punch cards." With the use of computerized vote counters and the news networks exclusive control over polling data in major elections, the gates to election fraud were wide open. Computerized voting machines have now made election fraud as easy as stealing candy from a baby.



So how could VNS help rig an election? VNS could conspire with corrupt government officials and crooked voting machine companies (whose reputation for fraud and "error" grows with every election) to come up with projections that closely mirror the expected election results. Then all that's needed is some 'tweaking' in targeted precincts where voting data can be manipulated, voting machines rigged ....and elections swung. VNS follows through with its de facto certification of election results that have already been fixed. If someone suspects vote rigging, there's always VNS to say that the results match their projections.



And with no oversight, who's to know?

Bill Headline was VNS's executive director during the notorious 2000 Bush - Gore presidential election. According to information on a University of Miami webpage, Headline started his career as an Air Intelligence Officer in the U.S. Navy from 1955 to 1957. Seven years later, in 1964, he was hired at CBS where "as a member of Louis Harris and Associates, he directed field research and vote collection activities for CBS coverage of the 1964 Presidential elections." From there his career skyrocketed to Senior Vice President of CBS News, CNN Vice President, and past President of the Radio/Television Correspondents' Association.



Very impressive... but something may also be... very wrong. Victoria Collier (daughter of James Collier) interviewed Headline before he retired from VNS. She was shocked at how nervous he sounded over the telephone. I telephoned Headline the other day and left a message asking for information about Voter News Service, what he did between 1957-1964, and if he ever had a working relationship with the CIA or any other intelligence agency. He hasn't returned my call.



If VNS is helping to rig elections, why are they doing it? Generally speaking... I believe that the same people who can't rake in enough money, also can't get enough power. The news networks are owned lock, stock, and barrel by the richest corporations and individuals in the world. They certainly have an agenda. Their arrogance and disregard for the little guy is clear. They may think that we're not smart enough to pick the 'right' kind of leaders... right for them, that is. So they might try to do it for us.

It was late that afternoon when networks suddenly announced VNS was not going to provide exit polling. As far as I know, the numbers they had already collected that day were not made available. DUers who follow it closer than I do indicate the VNS boss now heads the AP operation that conducts exit polling. For whatever reason, the exit polls are getting progressively worse. That chart going around DU is listing exit polls that are ludicrous beyond belief, like Kerry leading Pennsylvania 60-40 and New Hampshire 57-41.

VNS took plenty of heat for its Florida problems in 2000. DUers like to claim VNS was absolutely correct in calling Florida early for Gore, but that's not 100% accurate. VNS sampled 45 carefully selected precincts. The projection was Gore by 3-6 points. Even a perfect election would have given the state to Gore by perhaps 1 point. VNS oversampled Democrats, particularly in the Tampa area and also Duval County. Duval,of course, featured 15-20,000 spoiled ballots in black precincts due to a confusing two page presidential choice. The VNS model was supposed to be crosschecked with actual returns from those precincts before a call was made. But VNS entered faulty returns in its computer and erroneously gave the networks the OK to call Florida, when it actually was too early and too close. VNS did not include absentee ballots in its model in 2000 and earlier, something supposedly fixed by the current AP consortium.