This service was created by the Big Six in 1964 - one year after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and it is currently run by ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, and AP. Over the years, VNS has gone through a variety of name changes and it was originally called NES (News Election Services).
When you consider the ramifications of every Presidential , Congressional, and Gubernatorial race, you'll see that VNS is one of the most influential corporations in America. And yet, not many people have ever heard of it before.
How can such a fantastic responsibility be placed in the hands of a company that was developed by a consortium of corporate media conglomerates? The most glaring observation one could make from this situation is: if a faceless, unknown agency (VNS) is the sole vote counter rather than accountable local volunteers in each precinct, is it conceivable that a wealthy politician or political party could clandestinely pay them off to rig an election?
The answer is obvious, especially when so many of the American people don't even know about the existence of VNS.
it isn't inconcievable at all. look at what the small group of individuals found when they wanted to see the paper records of a recent election. when the firm which wrote the code denied, in public, not once but multiple times, that their machines were totoally secure, this group wrote a code slipped it into a machine supposedly tamper proof, voted in a prdetermined order with a predetermined number of votes and had the machine print out the votes it recorded. the number should have been ten votes for a particular candidate out of ten votes cast. the machine recorded one vote for the specified candidate and nine against. the total was right just 10% of the time, 90% of the time it recorded just the opposite as the vote cast. there were only ten votes cast and it was done while being filmed. when these results were given to the elected officials who were to decide whether to purchase these type machines, the officials ignored the results because the company claimed that there was no way their machines could do such a thing. the group who ran the test did it a gain right in the room with the company officials and the elected officials in the room and taking part in the test. when the results showed errors in the vote tally, the company claimed the machine had been rigged., the group then asked them again if their machines were accurate and they said YES, even when it had been shown they werew not tampoer proof, and would tally the votes cast according to whatever the code card said to tally- EVEN IF IT WAS COUNTING BACKEWARDS and taking votes away from the a particular candidate. when the group who did this test sought the original tally sheets used to certify the real vote, they found them in the trash and were told they could not have them. they took them anyway and examined them. THE RECORDS SHOWED THE MACHINE COUNTING BACKWARDS and the votes recorded were ACCEPTED as the official tally even though they were WRONG and had deprived votes to the rightful candidate. where,, you ask did this happen? IN FLORIDA, IN 2002! remeber how bush won? by a big foul-up in the tally of votes where over 14000 votes were not counted, because of VOTING irregularities, which would have put GORE in the white house!