Romney Family Invests in Notorious Electronic Voting Machine Company

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http://truth-out.org/news/item/12204-does-the-romney-family-now-own-your-e-vote


Will you cast your vote this fall on a faulty electronic machine that's partly owned by the Romney Family? Will that machine decide whether Romney will then inherit the White House? Through a closely held equity fund called Solamere, Mitt Romney and his wife, son and brother are major investors in an investment firm called H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. in turn holds a majority share and three out of five board members in Hart Intercivic, a company that owns the notoriously faulty electronic voting machines that will count the ballots in swing state Ohio November 7. Hart machines will also be used elsewhere in the United States (http://www.hartintercivic.com/).

In other words, a candidate for the presidency of the United States, and his brother, wife and son, have a straight-line financial interest in the voting machines that could decide this fall's election. These machines cannot be monitored by the public. But they will help decide who "owns" the White House.

[Jamesiv1]

whoa

Truth Bomb material

[Working Poor]

whoa

Truth Bomb material

Fir sure this guy will do anything to get what he wants.,...

[jkr]

it matters not who votes...
...it is whose ROBOTS DO THE COUNTING!

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GOT
skynet
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[presence]

Romney Family Investment Ties To Voting Machine Company That Could Decide The Election Causing Concern
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/10/20/romney-family-investment-ties-to-voting-machine-company-that-could-decide-the-election-causes-concern/


Forbes picked up the story.


But wait—if you’re feeling a bit ill now, you’ll want to get the anti-acids ready to go because it’s about get really strange.


To everyone’s amazement, we learn that two members of the Hart Intercivic board of directors (http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/board.asp?privcapId=430322), Neil Tuch (http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name_address&lat=37.3629730000&oldest=1&lng=-122.0844820000&lname=Tuch&fname=Neil)and Jeff Bohl (http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&oldest=1&lname=bohl&fname=jeff&search=Search+Names), have made direct contributions to the Romney campaign. This, despite the fact that they represent 40 percent of the full board of directors of a company whose independent, disinterested and studiously non-partisan status in any election taking place on their voting machines would seemingly be a ‘no brainer’.




PressTV in Iran is also now running the story:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/21/267897/romney-fraud-looms-in-us-election/


Believe it or not, Romney actually OWNS the black-box voting machines that will fabricate -- not count -- the votes in Ohio, the most important swing state. (“Black box” machines are designed with no transparent link between the votes that go in, and the “results” that come out.)

Freepress.org actually had the story on the 12th:

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4742


Electronic voting machines owned by Mitt Romney's business buddies and set to count the votes in Cincinnati could decide the 2012 election.

[puppetmaster]

this is why we absolutely HAVE to have a way to track each of our own votes. This country has been stolen and we must take it back

[VoluntaryAmerican]

this is why we absolutely HAVE to have a way to track each of our own votes. This country has been stolen and we must take it back

Meh. Or just chalk representative government up as a failure and a tyranny.

[Muwahid]

Meh. Or just chalk representative government up as a failure and a tyranny.

What's the alternative?

[LibForestPaul]

Switzerland has been going strong for several hundred years, just saying.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Just a random thought... but those homemade, low power EMP bombs they teach you how to make on YouTube will kill a clock radio. I bet they would kill a voting machine too...

or gee - did I accidentally get superglue all over my voter card before I put it in the slot to vote? - Dang! - I hate when that happens!

Or imagine getting into the software and causing it to kick out results like:
Romney: 8 times the number of votes as the population of the state.
Obama: ZERO votes!

Imagine if it was all write in ballots that had to be hand counted and that would leave a paper trail...

-t

[presence]

So does anyone have a link from NY Times, WSJ, Fox, NBC, etc. on this? Or are we in the realm of "not fit to print"??

Business Insider has picked it up now:

Here's The Truth About The Story About The Romneys Investing In The Company That Makes The Voting Machines
http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-investment-in-voting-machines-2012-10#ixzz2A9MExtqQ





There's a big story circulating on liberal blogs and news sites right now.

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Is there any evidence that anyone has tampered with the voting machines? Thankfully, no.
But you've got to admit... The connection here is close enough that it creates, if not the appearance of impropriety, at least the appearance of the potential for impropriety.

Electronic voting machines are controversial. And in the past, at least, they have blamed for some mysterious voting results, in Ohio and elsewhere.
The close connection between the Romneys, the Romney campaign, and the voting-machine company, therefore, looks bad, regardless of whether the Romney family-linked fund actually has a "direct or indirect" investment in the voting machine company.


As well as RT news:

http://rt.com/usa/news/voting-machines-romney-found-975/


Producers and investors of voting machines that have previously shown susceptibility to fraud in Ohio have been found to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Romney campaign, raising concern about a dangerous bias in a major swing state.