Romney family buys voting machines in 5 states

[Riddler]

Tagg Romney, the son of Republican presidential candidate Mitt RomneyMitt Romney (http://www.spurstalk.com/people/Mitt_Romney), has purchased electronic voting machines that will be used in the 2012 elections in Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, Washington and Colorado. "Late last month, Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis at FreePress.org broke the story of the Mitt Romney/Bain Capital investment team involved in H.I.G. Capital which, in July of 2011, completed a "strategic investment" (http://www.higprivateequity.com/NewsRelease.php?id=881) to take over a fair share of the Austin-based e-voting machine company Hart Intercivic (http://www.hartintercivic.com/)," according to independent journalist Brad Friedman. (http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=38)
But Friedman is not the only one to discover the connection between the Romney family, Bain Capital, and ownership of voting machines.
Truth out (http://truth-out.org/news/item/12204-does-the-romney-family-now-own-your-e-vote) reports:

"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."

Both The Nation (http://www.thenation.com/article/170470/tagg-team-romney-family-recipe-crony-capitalism) and New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/us/politics/ties-to-romney-08-helped-fuel-equity-firm.html?pagewanted=all) confirm the connection between the Romney family, Solamere and the Bain Capital investment in the voting machine company, Hart Intercivic, whose board of directors (http://www.hartintercivic.com/pages/447) serve H.I.G. Capital.
"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.
The investment comes in part through the privately held family equity firm called Solamere, which bears the name of the posh Utah ski community where the Romney family retreats to slide down the slopes." Truth out added.
There are also political connections between Solamere and the Romney's. "Matt Blunt, the former Missouri governor who backed Mr. Romney in 2008, is a senior adviser to Solamere, as is Mitt Romney’s brother, Scott, a lawyer," according to the New York Times. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/us/politics/ties-to-romney-08-helped-fuel-equity-firm.html?pagewanted=all)
Voter ID and voter fraud have been a top issues in the 2012 race, as have claims of Republican voter suppression (http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13082266-2012-elections-fraud-if-you-think-you-cant-win-cheat). Mr. Romney's campaign has also been the subject of controversy over misleading ads, false claims, sketchy math on his tax plan, and overall vagueness on women's rights and other hot button issues.

Raising further questions of legitimacy in the Romney campaign is an audio recording recently made public, where Mitt Romney is heard asking independent business owners to apply pressure to their employees (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/mitt-romney-employees-voting_n_1975636.html) to influence their votes. What has also been made public are the emails those employers have sent (http://www.salon.com/2012/10/17/plutocrat_bosses_to_employees_vote_romney_or_else/) to their employees with an implied threat that if they don't vote for Romney they may lose their jobs.
What it all says is that Mitt Romney, with the help of his family and Bain Capital connections, is more than willing to try to take the White House through illegitimate and highly unethical, if not specifically illegal means.

With each passing day, the character and campaign methods of Mitt Romney cast an ever-darker shadow over free and fair American elections.
Yet there is an irony in the Romney campaign that cannot be ignored. For all the noise the right-wing has made in questioning the legitimacy of Obama's presidency, there have been so many questionable efforts made to help put Romney in the White House, if he wins, there should be great dispute over whether his election could ever be called genuinely illegitimate.
The nagging question is why, if Mr. Romney truly has the qualities that American voters want in their president, does he have to go to such great and questionable lengths to try to win the election.

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13221476-romney-family-buys-voting-machines-through-bain-capital-investment

[Koolaid_Man]

All I know is that if Romney wins I will probably sprawl out on the floor crying my eyes out in sadness...for the sake of humanity and all that's decent...I hope there's enough decent white people left to re-elect Obama.

[Creepn]

If Romney gets elected, I'll never forgive you white people.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

If Romney gets elected, I'll never forgive you white people.

If America can last another 20-30 years, all the white baby boomers can die off and then hopefully the Republican party dies with it :lol

[boutons_deux]

"why ... does he have to go to such great and questionable lengths to try to win the election."

$$$$

winning will greatly increase wealth-sucking for him and the rest of the 1%. It's scorched-earth class warfare, the 1% vs the 99%.

3rd party idiots lie that there's no difference between Barry and Gecko.

For those who think Barry is not good, or even bad, if Gecko wins, they ain't seen nothing, yet.

[boutons_deux]

If America can last another 20-30 years, all the white baby boomers can die off and then hopefully the Republican party dies with it :lol

false, distracting bullshit: boomers vs the non-boomers.

[Koolaid_Man]

"why ... does he have to go to such great and questionable lengths to try to win the election."

$$$$

winning will greatly increase wealth-sucking for him and the rest of the 1%. It's scorched-earth class warfare, the 1% vs the 99%.

3rd party idiots who lie that there's no difference between Barry and Gecko.

For those who think Barry is not good, or even bad, if Gecko wins, they ain't seen nothing, yet.









Romney probably has never even spoken to a black person prior to running for office...let alone have one stare him down and talk to him the way Obam has...he might just commit suicide if he loses to a "nigga"....

It's just the way people like him and the tea party think....

[Clipper Nation]

false, distracting bullshit: boomers vs the non-boomers.
Well, no, considering the Boomers have all the political power and keep voting money away from future generations to fund their lazy, fat, entitlement-driven lifestyle, tbh....

[boutons_deux]

Well, no, considering the Boomers have all the political power and keep voting money away from future generations to fund their lazy, fat, entitlement-driven lifestyle, tbh....

boomers vs non-boomers is, for You People, a false battle, typically ignorant and distracting.

It's the 1% vs the 99%.

Do you really think that after the boomers all die off that the next generation, your generation?, of 1%ers and their wealth sucking war on everybody and everything will become socialists? :lol

[Clipper Nation]

No, the next generation will be libertarian, both socially (as reflected in their majority views), and economically (out of necessity), tbh.....

[boutons_deux]

"the next generation will be libertarian"

:lol

It's been the 1% vs the 99% for centuries, forever.

libertarians, with their mindless, naive deregulation, won't change that, will make the inequality much worse. The 1% won't let the libertarians touch their wealth and power.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Well, no, considering the Boomers have all the political power and keep voting money away from future generations to fund their lazy, fat, entitlement-driven lifestyle, tbh....

Truth bombs, the comment you responded to is why I have Boutons and his retarded bullshit on ignore. Baby boomers are a huge part of the problem in this country.

[Clipper Nation]

The 1% won't let the libertarians touch their wealth and power.

The 1% will need to become libertarian in order to KEEP their wealth, tbh..... that means competing currencies and no more money-printing tbh.....

[dbestpro]

When my cousin (an airline stewardess) died in the United flight that crashed into the towers her father said a very important thing at her funeral. He said the enemy is not a religion, and not a group of people.

He said it is ignorance and intolerance. It is sad watching so many people become part of the enemy, both from the left and right.

[Edward]

When my cousin (an airline stewardess) died in the United flight that crashed into the towers her father said a very important thing at her funeral. He said the enemy is not a religion, and not a group of people.

He said it is ignorance and intolerance. It is sad watching so many people become part of the enemy, both from the left and right.

"Hey everyone look at me! My slut cousin died on 9/11 and that somehow makes me a philosopher who should be taken very seriously when talking about ignorance! Give me attention!"

[DMC]

All I know is that if Romney wins I will probably sprawl out on the floor crying my eyes out in sadness...for the sake of humanity and all that's decent...I hope there's enough decent white people left to re-elect Obama.

You could always switch back to your white persona until this peace craze blows over and come on in for the big win.

[DMC]

When my cousin (an airline stewardess) died in the United flight that crashed into the towers her father said a very important thing at her funeral. He said the enemy is not a religion, and not a group of people.

He said it is ignorance and intolerance. It is sad watching so many people become part of the enemy, both from the left and right.

Grief doesn't make a person more wise. It wasn't ignorance that flew the planes into the buildings, and it wasn't intolerance that allowed the ragheads on the plane in the first place. If we had more intolerance of these sand hillbillies and profiled the fuck out of them your cousin might still be alive. Ignorance however, on the part of the TSA, was a major factor. Add to that the fact that the WH was National Enquirer instead of National Security, it was bound to happen.

[Wild Cobra]

If Romney gets elected, I'll never forgive you white people.
You are a racist!

[Wild Cobra]

It will be made more controversial if Romney wins where those machines are placed. However, with someone so well diversified, you can always find connections... All you have to do is look, like the demonrats cronies do.

[Edward]

I'm sure it's just coincidence Romney's family felt the need to diversify their assets by investing in polling machines while Romney is running for president.

[dbestpro]

"Hey everyone look at me! My slut cousin died on 9/11 and that somehow makes me a philosopher who should be taken very seriously when talking about ignorance! Give me attention!"

Your response if anything, is indicative of an attention whore and proves that you have joined the enemy in regards to intelligence and intolerance. Your anger towards the idea of people working together to solve our issues, speaks volumes.

[Edward]

Your response if anything, is indicative of an attention whore and proves that you have joined the enemy in regards to intelligence and intolerance. Your anger towards the idea of people working together to solve our issues, speaks volumes.
:lol you try to sound like an ultra-intellectual philosopher every time you post when you have some of the most retarded opinions to ever grace the political forum. No one's buying it, and your slut cousin dying on 9/11 doesn't change that.

[Clipper Nation]

All you have to do is look, like the demonrats cronies do.

So the only problem you see with Willard's cronies owning polling machines is that the "Demonrats cronies" exposed it?

:cheer Go Team Red! :cheer

[Wild Cobra]

So the only problem you see with Willard's cronies owning polling machines is that the "Demonrats cronies" exposed it?

:cheer Go Team Red! :cheer
If Obama had enough money to diversify, and was in enough different business ventures, he would have similar things found out as well. Most of his controversial connections are just people.

[dbestpro]

:lol you try to sound like an ultra-intellectual philosopher every time you post when you have some of the most retarded opinions to ever grace the political forum. No one's buying it, and your slut cousin dying on 9/11 doesn't change that.

One day, perhaps you will look back and ask why you were such a coward, hiding behind the keys of computer, when maybe, just maybe you could have put the remote control down, get up off the couch and actually try to make the world a better place.

All you have to offer are insults. You think you can bully someone, curse at them, insult their family and they will in turn become just like you.

Still, I have no need to insult you because I am sure you have your personal reasons why you hate. You just ain't gonna make me hate, too.

[DarrinS]

Wow. Lotta white hate in this thread.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

false, distracting bullshit: boomers vs the non-boomers.

shut up, boomer.

[mavs>spurs]

If Romney gets elected, I'll never forgive you white people.

You know I fuck around with you and trill a lot because you guys are internet racists but I honestly hope for your sake that Romney wins. Black people can't afford to suffer any more under Obama..just check the statistics. Giving out more welfare wasn't and isn't the answer, all that ever does is increase dependency and unemployment while lowering wages.

[boutons_deux]

shut up, boomer.

false, distracting bullshit: boomers vs the non-boomers.

[Clipper Nation]

false, distracting bullshit: everything I post.

fify

[Creepn]

You are a racist!

How is what I said racist? If I'm convinced that what I said is racist then I'll apologize because it's never my intention to be racist.

If Romney gets elected, it's because white people put him there. I don't think he'll get the majority of the Latino vote. You guys already broke my heart when Bush got elected a second time. There's only so much bullshit I can take.

[Wild Cobra]

You know I fuck around with you and trill a lot because you guys are internet racists but I honestly hope for your sake that Romney wins. Black people can't afford to suffer any more under Obama..just check the statistics. Giving out more welfare wasn't and isn't the answer, all that ever does is increase dependency and unemployment while lowering wages.
I agree 100%.

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

People need to be helped, but in ways of teaching them to help them self and break the cycle of dependency.

How can anyone feel personal worth and pride, if they rely on others?

[boutons_deux]

"People need to be helped"

There are Ms of people who want to work, manywho had good jobs, but they find no jobs or shitty, soul-destroying, humiliating $10 - $15/hr jobs. But the 1% and corps have so fucked up the USA, exporting jobs, financializing everything so capital makes much more return on playing money games than building and producing stuff, the economy doesn't provide good jobs.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

fify

pretty much. talking about the largest voting block in the US is distracting from the stupidity that is the right wing conspiracy theory?

[Wild Cobra]

"People need to be helped"

There are Ms of people who want to work, manywho had good jobs, but they find no jobs or shitty, soul-destroying, humiliating $10 - $15/hr jobs. But the 1% and corps have so fucked up the USA, exporting jobs, financializing everything so capital makes much more return on playing money games than building and producing stuff, the economy doesn't provide good jobs.
Sorry, but they need to take these jobs, humiliating or not. This "I'm too good for that job" attitude is a loser's attitude. You take what ever job is available, and it is a path to the better job.

If I am an employer, and narrow my new hire candidate down to two people, who am I going to hire? The guy who is willing to work a shitty job, or the guy who thinks he is too good to work? seriously? who would you hire. All other considerations being equal, this is the difference between two people for one position.

[boutons_deux]

"You take what ever job is available, and it is a path to the better job"

:lol

there aren't "better jobs" or "better people" would be taking them.

[Wild Cobra]

So...

You apply the "quitter's" attitude...

[Trill Clinton]

You know I fuck around with you and trill a lot because you guys are internet racists but I honestly hope for your sake that Romney wins. Black people can't afford to suffer any more under Obama..just check the statistics. Giving out more welfare wasn't and isn't the answer, all that ever does is increase dependency and unemployment while lowering wages.

lol foh, i aint a internet racist.

however i do get a kick out of posters calling me a racist and ignore the other more blatant racism here. it gives me life.

[boutons_deux]

"Black people can't afford to suffer any more under Obama."

:lol holy shit!

Do you think a bishop in racist cult is gonna do anything for blacks? :lol

[mavs>spurs]

I'm just looking at the cold hard numbers kool aid sipper. Obama's presidency has been especially rough on the black community while posing as the savior.