Votescam: The Stealing of America (Forbidden Bookshelf) by James M. Collier & Kenneth F. Collier

Author:James M. Collier & Kenneth F. Collier [Collier, James M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2015-09-28T22:00:00+00:00

11

Power Corrupts

“May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right.”

—Gypsy curse

Our office in Lafayette Park was a lean-to on the sidewalk; our desk a packing crate and our typewriter a Royal, circa 1929, well-oiled and in splendid working condition.

Ellen got us the typewriter from Mitch Snyder. He was Washington’s homeless advocate who fasted in the park to within an inch of death when the government refused to give him five million dollars to renovate a building for the homeless. Dick Gregory was his fasting coach, and just before Snyder was to suck his last breath, and just before the election Reagan gave in.

Snyder would serve hundreds of dinners to the homeless in the park Thanksgiving and Christmas that year. We stood in a cold, dripping rain, waiting for stuffing and cranberry sauce. Jim told Snyder: “It’s taken me a lot of years to work my way down from the top.” We had gone broke going for broke.

All through that summer in the park we prepared a series of lawsuits. They were filed against defendants whose actions to suppress the Votescam video coincided with one another.

By fall, the Spotlight had run five of our Miami stories on vote fraud. They included an investigation of Computer Election Services (CES), the San Francisco firm which controlled most of the vote-counting apparatus in 1984.

Our first lawsuit was against the RNC. As we saw it, the reward offer was a binding contract. We wanted our day in court to show the video to a jury. Let them judge who was acting in good faith to expose vote fraud and who was trying to cover it up.

The lawsuit against the RNC also gave us breaking stories every week. Our stories were filled with excerpts from sworn depositions of prominent functionaries and politicians. There was also the chance we could use the law’s discovery process to reveal further leads into the heart of vote fraud. We promised Spotlight editors that at least three more lawsuits would be filed in early 1985.

We submitted the following complaint to the court:

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