Does the Romney Family Now Own Your e-Vote?

Praxius

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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.


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.

They are especially crucial in Ohio, without which no Republican candidate has ever won the White House. In 2004, in the dead of election night, an electronic swing of more than 300,000 votes switched Ohio from the John Kerry column to George W. Bush, giving him a second term. A virtual statistical impossibility, the 6-plus% shift occurred between 12:20 and 2am election night as votes were being tallied by a GOP-controlled information technology firm on servers in a basement in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In defiance of a federal injunction, 56 of Ohio's 88 counties destroyed all election records, making a recount impossible. Ohio's governor and secretary of state in 2004 were both Republicans, as are the governors and secretaries of state in nine key swing states this year.

As we have previously reported, H.I.G. Capital has on its board of directors at least three close associates of the Romney family. H.I.G. Capital directors John P. Bolduk and Douglas Berman are major Romney fundraisers. So is former Bain and H.I.G. manager Brian Shortsleeve. H.I.G. employees have contributed at least $338,000 to Romney's campaign. Fully a third of H.I.G.'s leadership previously worked at Romney's old Bain firm.

But new research now shows that the association doesn't stop with mere friendship and business associations. Mitt Romney, his wife Ann Romney, and their son Tagg Romney are also invested in H.I.G. Capital, as is Mitt's brother G. Scott Romney.....


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Quite interesting information.... So Teddy... how will you spin this information into Romney's favour??
 

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I'm sure it\s a misunderstanding, certainly no sane or honest politician would ever entertain an conflict of interest like these spurious rumours intimate. Afterall the rule of law is meticulously maintained in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. What a horrible thing to suggest. I simply refuse to believe in trickery of this sort from such an honest man of international renown. It simply isn't true. The police would already have arrested him.
 

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-I'm sure it\s a misunderstanding, certainly no sane or honest politician would ever entertain an conflict of interest like these spurious rumours intimate. Afterall the rule of law is meticulously maintained in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. What a horrible thing to suggest. I simply refuse to believe in trickery of this sort from such an honest man of international renown. It simply isn't true. The police would already have arrested him.
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The American citizens let Jeb Bush decide the election in 2000, why not let Tagg Romney decide it in 2012. The democrats obviously need to pay closer attention and learn these tricks for themselves.
 

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I don't get why this isn't a cementing issue with voters from all parties. I suppose it just plays too well into the 'us versus them' mentality that the media uses to keep the citizenry fearful of one another though. If the people were to sit down and talk as Americans about these damn machines, there's no way in hell a united citizenry would allow their election process to be highjacked like this.
 

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Funny how we haven't heard anything yet from Teddy over all of this, since he seems to be the US Election & Republican expert of the forums.

You'd think he would have explained all of this away by now with his higher-than-thou education and more mature & enlightened view which Lefty-Fascists can't come close to.
 

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33,000 Absentee Votes Rejected in Ohio



The Columbus Dispatch reported today that a data-sharing glitch and mistakes by election officials has caused thousands of absentee ballot requests to be rejected. While Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted maintains that this was a computer error, the Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates found an abnormally high rate of rejected absentee ballot requests in Cuyahoga County, a Democratic stronghold that includes Cleveland. The Cuyahoga Board of Elections determined that 865 ballot requests had been erroneously thrown out.

This absentee ballot fiasco is just the latest in Ohio’s dysfunctional election saga. On Wednesday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Husted to discount ballots cast by people directed to the wrong polling station by a pollworker — one of the most common errors that led to thousands of votes getting thrown out in Ohio’s dysfunctional 2004 presidential election.


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Ohio's Ballot Woes Could Delay Election Results For Weeks | ThinkProgress
 

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You'd think anybody with a frick'n brain would simply say "Hey... maybe we shouldn't be using these things and just fall back to good old fashion pen/pencil and paper until these things are stripped apart in front of the public eye to see that they are truly more reliable than humans counting them one by one."

Naw, that'd be too simple wouldn't it?

And the best part is that if a human is caught screwing with votes and doing more than just counting them properly, they can get into all sorts of crap..... but with these machines/computers.... whoops... Computer Glitch *snaps finger*

I think for every time these machines fuk up, the company responsible for them should be found legally accountable and face any charges that would be tossed at any typical human screwing with vote counts.

Maybe then these idiots making these things would better ensure that their systems work before they unleashed them into a national/federal election.

Or maybe they'll just take them all back and walk away, which would be the smart thing to do, because these machines have been utter crap since the first day they were ever used.

They should have been taken out of elections after the first bungled election.... and you'd think more people would raise an eyebrow or two at them being used in the first place and scrap the whole idea.

Again.... too simple of a solution I suppose. :roll:
 

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33,000 Absentee Votes Rejected in Ohio



The Columbus Dispatch reported today that a data-sharing glitch and mistakes by election officials has caused thousands of absentee ballot requests to be rejected. While Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted maintains that this was a computer error, the Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates found an abnormally high rate of rejected absentee ballot requests in Cuyahoga County, a Democratic stronghold that includes Cleveland. The Cuyahoga Board of Elections determined that 865 ballot requests had been erroneously thrown out.

This absentee ballot fiasco is just the latest in Ohio’s dysfunctional election saga. On Wednesday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Husted to discount ballots cast by people directed to the wrong polling station by a pollworker — one of the most common errors that led to thousands of votes getting thrown out in Ohio’s dysfunctional 2004 presidential election.


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Ohio's Ballot Woes Could Delay Election Results For Weeks | ThinkProgress

33,000? I wonder what percentage of the vote this is in that riding. I can see a lawsuit or 2 coming from this and possibly a delay in results. I hope the Supreme Court wasn't planning any vacations this month.
 

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I just heard on the C.B.C. news that things are looking rosy for Obama, many more jobs since he took office, the U.S. economy is starting to boom and house prices are on the rise again. So long Mitt!
 

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I'm sure it\s a misunderstanding, certainly no sane or honest politician would ever entertain an conflict of interest like these spurious rumours intimate. Afterall the rule of law is meticulously maintained in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. What a horrible thing to suggest. I simply refuse to believe in trickery of this sort from such an honest man of international renown. It simply isn't true. The police would already have arrested him.

Want to buy some oceanfront property in Alberta?

You'd think anybody with a frick'n brain would simply say "Hey... maybe we shouldn't be using these things and just fall back to good old fashion pen/pencil and paper until these things are stripped apart in front of the public eye to see that they are truly more reliable than humans counting them one by one."

Naw, that'd be too simple wouldn't it?

And the best part is that if a human is caught screwing with votes and doing more than just counting them properly, they can get into all sorts of crap..... but with these machines/computers.... whoops... Computer Glitch *snaps finger*

I think for every time these machines fuk up, the company responsible for them should be found legally accountable and face any charges that would be tossed at any typical human screwing with vote counts.

Maybe then these idiots making these things would better ensure that their systems work before they unleashed them into a national/federal election.

Or maybe they'll just take them all back and walk away, which would be the smart thing to do, because these machines have been utter crap since the first day they were ever used.

They should have been taken out of elections after the first bungled election.... and you'd think more people would raise an eyebrow or two at them being used in the first place and scrap the whole idea.

Again.... too simple of a solution I suppose. :roll:

The machines appear to be working exactly as their owners had them programed.
 

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I just heard on the C.B.C. news that things are looking rosy for Obama, many more jobs since he took office, the U.S. economy is starting to boom and house prices are on the rise again. So long Mitt!

The US Economy is starting to boom?
 

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Apparently.

Where?

171,000 jobs were reportedly added in this period... 170,000 people applied for unemployment in the same period.

From September to October Unemployment climbed from 7.8% to 7.9%

Quite the boom eh?

Our economy is stagnant.
 

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Where?

171,000 jobs were reportedly added in this period... 170,000 people applied for unemployment in the same period.

From September to October Unemployment climbed from 7.8% to 7.9%

Quite the boom eh?
Our economy is stagnant.

There are jobs and then there are "jobs"! (I was just quoting the news) Don't shoot the messenger. LOL
 

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Rosy colored glasses is more appropriate. ;)

From what I've read, every one of your posts has been pro Republican, anti Democrat, so I can only conclude that you are VERY selective in what you choose to pass on. I conclude it's you who is wearing "rose coloured glasses".