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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
Thu Oct 11, 2012, 04:26 PM Oct 2012

Owners Of Electronic Voting Machine Company Are Romney Super-Fans



Owners Of Electronic Voting Machine Company Are Romney Super-Fans

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Hart InterCivic is a national provider of election voting systems that are used in swing-states Ohio and Colorado, as well as in states we don’t really care about so much because we already know how they’ll turn out (e.g., Texas, Oklahoma, and Hawaii). Private equity firm H.I.G. Capital, LLC bought out a “significant” portion of Hart in July of 2011, and now the majority of Hart’s board directors are employees of H.I.G. (It’s not entirely clear how much of the voting machine company H.I.G. owns, but the financial advisors responsible for the transaction state that “Hart Intercivic was acquired by HIG Capital.”)

H.I.G., in turn, has ties to Bain & Co. and Mitt Romney directly: ....

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Full article here: http://www.thedailydolt.com/2012/10/10/former-bain-employees-own-voting-machine-company-used-in-swing-states/






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Owners Of Electronic Voting Machine Company Are Romney Super-Fans (Original Post) Tx4obama Oct 2012 OP
KICK! patrice Oct 2012 #1
Democracy my ass! polichick Oct 2012 #2
I've been harping on this since 2004. PDJane Oct 2012 #3
We should look more closely at what HAVA 2002 produced, state by state. nt patrice Oct 2012 #4
And the Tagg boy Wellstone ruled Oct 2012 #5

PDJane

(10,103 posts)
3. I've been harping on this since 2004.
Thu Oct 11, 2012, 04:42 PM
Oct 2012

I haven't gotten much response. This shit is ubiquitous, and it needs to be fixed. It's not going to be unless someone down there keeps harping on it between elections, and gets someone to FIX it. This close to the damn elections, it's not fixable. It makes me crazy, seriously.

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