2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRomney Family Investment Ties To Voting Machine Company That Could Decide The Election
Causing Concern. 'Repeat' story, but worth a read, imo, as from Forbes.
As the magic boards used by the networks go up close and personal on every county in the Buckeye State, word begins to circulate that there might be a snafu with some electronic voting machines in a number of Cincinnati based precincts. There have already been complaints that broken machines were not being quickly replaced in precincts that tend to lean Democratic and now, word is coming in that there may be some software issues.
The network political departments get busy and, in short order, discover that the machines used in Hamilton County, Ohiothe county home of Cincinnati are supplied by Hart Intercivic, a national provider of voting systems in use in a wide variety of counties scattered throughout the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Hawaii, Colorado and Ohio.
A quick Internet search reveals that there may be reason for concern. . .
Tony Tamer, H.I.G.s founder, turns out to be a major bundler for the Mitt Romney campaign, along with three other directors of H.I.G. who are also big-time money raisers for Romney.
Indeed, as fate would have it, two of those directorsDouglas Berman and Brian Schwartz were actually in attendance at the now infamous 47 percent fundraiser in Boca Raton, Florida.
With that news, voters everywhere start to get this queasy feeling in the pits of their stomach.
But waitif youre feeling a bit ill now, youll want to get the anti-acids ready to go because its about get really strange.
To everyones amazement, we learn that two members of the Hart Intercivic board of directors, Neil Tuch and Jeff Bohl, have made direct contributions to the Romney campaign. This, despite the fact that they represent 40 percent of the full board of directors of a company whose independent, disinterested and studiously non-partisan status in any election taking place on their voting machines would seemingly be a no brainer.
To Mr. Bohls credit, after giving a total of $4,000 to Romney For President, it must have occurred to him that it might not look so good for a board member of a company whose voting machines are to be a part of the presidential election to be playing favoritesso he gave $250 to Barack Obama.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/10/20/romney-family-investment-ties-to-voting-machine-company-that-could-decide-the-election-causes-concern/
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FROM FORBES ARTICLE <snip>
Hart Intercivic board of directors, Neil Tuch and Jeff Bohl, have made direct contributions to the Romney campaign.