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Related: About this forumOwners 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 dont really care about so much because we already know how theyll 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 Harts board directors are employees of H.I.G. (Its 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
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patrice
(47,992 posts)1. KICK!
polichick
(37,152 posts)2. Democracy my ass!
PDJane
(10,103 posts)3. I've been harping on this since 2004.
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.
patrice
(47,992 posts)4. We should look more closely at what HAVA 2002 produced, state by state. nt
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)5. And the Tagg boy
along with several Mormon money baggers.