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Romney-linked voting machine company to count votes in Ohio (Woo Hoo!)
salon.com ^ | 10/23/2012 | Craig Unger

Posted on 10/23/2012 10:27:48 AM PDT by dead

Voting machine provider Hart Intercivic will be counting the votes in various counties in the crucial swing states of Ohio and Colorado and elsewhere throughout the country come November 6 — even though it has extensive corporate ties to the Mitt Romney camp, and even though a study commissioned by the state of Ohio has labeled its voting system a “failure” when it comes to protecting the integrity of elections.

Reports of Hart Intercivic’s ties to Romney first surfaced in late September, in ... an Ohio web site which reported that a key investor in Hart was HIG Capital, seven of whose directors were former employees of Bain & Co., a consulting company of which Mitt Romney was once CEO. (Romney left the company in 1984 to co-found a spin-off company, Bain Capital.) HIG Capital announced its investment in Hart on July 6, 2011, just one month after Romney formally announced the launch of his presidential campaign.

Nor were those the only ties between Hart and the Romney camp. Four of the HIG directors... are Romney bundlers along with former Bain and H.I.G. manager Brian Shortsleeve, and, according to Opensecrets.org, a web site run by the Center for Responsive politics, HIG Capital has contributed $338,000 to the Romney campaign this year. Moreover, according to a report in The Nation, HIG Capital is tied to the Romney family via Solamere, a private equity firm that has invested in HIG and is run by Tagg Romney, the candidate’s son...

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In the event of a close election, however, the ties between the Romney family, their supporters and the voting machine company raise the specter of a potential conflict of interest and the memory of the controversy surrounding the 2004 election results in Ohio...

In that election...

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: herewegoagain; mediabias; mediamalpractice; votecounting
I just put the Woo-Hoo to piss off leftist lurkers.

They are having hissyfits over this.

I'm worried that this could be shaping up as Obama's Plan B - when he loses Ohio and the election he'll Gore up the results with lawsuits and shenanigans and disinformation all in the hope of getting some riots going.

1 posted on 10/23/2012 10:27:55 AM PDT by dead
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To: dead

We’re living their heads rent free!


2 posted on 10/23/2012 10:30:48 AM PDT by PDMiller
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The Democrat Party operatives will commit every kind of election fraud known to man ,and a few previously unknown, accuse the Republicans, and file lawsuits everywhere when the “won” loses.

But if he wins by one vote teh Deemocrats would see no need for a recount!


3 posted on 10/23/2012 10:31:55 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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They are setting up the lawsuit in Ohio:
1. Early voting
2. Billboards taken down
3. Wrong vote date sent to voters
4. Voting counts

There will be more to show a pattern of deceit.


4 posted on 10/23/2012 10:32:21 AM PDT by gotribe (He's a mack-daddy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV415yit7Zg)
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So? Once the votes are counted in Spain by Soros’ people it’ll all work out.


5 posted on 10/23/2012 10:34:30 AM PDT by beelzepug ("0bama is a feckless crapweasel")
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To: dead

Salon Eazine “Where the effete meet to bleat”


6 posted on 10/23/2012 10:39:08 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (The best way to punish a - country is let professors run it. Fredrick the Great para/p)
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RELAX ALL OF YOU!
Only TWO Ohio counties use Hart machines. Hart is not counting the votes and Hart is not owned by the Romney’s.
Hell (and I don’t swear) even Think Progress has denunked this story.

http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/Upload/elections/votingsystems.aspx?page=25056


7 posted on 10/23/2012 10:40:29 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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How could one even count all the ways that the democrats cheat. They cheat at every point in the process. Now they have stacked the SOS’s so that they can rig the final vote at the top.


8 posted on 10/23/2012 10:45:49 AM PDT by Revel
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I just put the Woo-Hoo to piss off leftist lurkers.

I just hope they don't notice that the LDS church has volunteered and been appointed to count all the votes.
9 posted on 10/23/2012 10:49:44 AM PDT by j_k_l
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:)


10 posted on 10/23/2012 10:59:11 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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They tried this talking point against W and wanted to my Ohio another Florida in 2004.


11 posted on 10/23/2012 11:10:04 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Osama's dead... and so is our ambassador - Coulter.)
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So many items floating out there today setting up the excuses for an Obama loss. It’s a very good sign.


12 posted on 10/23/2012 11:21:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Wait.

I thought we had to worry about the Diebold voting machines .

13 posted on 10/23/2012 11:32:36 AM PDT by Bratch
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I thought Spain was supposed to count the nation’s votes.


14 posted on 10/23/2012 12:03:13 PM PDT by bgill (Evil doers are in every corner of our government. Have we passed the time of no return?)
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And it’s programmed to discount dead voters.


15 posted on 10/23/2012 12:05:37 PM PDT by DPMD
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And it’s programmed to discount dead, multiple and convicted voters.


16 posted on 10/23/2012 12:10:55 PM PDT by DPMD
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