Truthout: Does the Romney Family Now Own Your e-Vote?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

Will you cast your vote this fall on a faulty electronic machine that's partly owned by the Romney Family? Will that machine decide whether Romney will then inherit the White House?

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.

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.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12204-does-the-romney-family-now-own-your-e-vote

[SCliberal091294]

1. Don't think so..

I don't think this will happen. The Obama campaign has definately heard about it, so they are probably working behind scenes to make sure nothing is wrong.

[Politicalboi]

2. How is this even legal?

How come this isn't front page news. If Obama did this it would be. How come the Democrats did NOTHING about this. This should have been pointed out during the primaries. Who knows, maybe Newt really did win the nomination.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

4. That was my thought.

If President Obama or his family had direct ties to a company that made voting machines used around the country in this next election, can you imagine the backlash from that? It would be horrendous. The news media would be all over it 24 x 7. It would be a huge scandal about the not only Obama's integrity but also the integrity of our elections and about Americans' ability to trust the outcome.

But that seems to be the case for his challenger Mitt Romney and yet we've heard nary a peep about this issue from the media.

If there is any substance at all to this, it needs to be investigated. And whether substantive or not, even the "appearance of impropriety" is bad enough in this situation. Americans need to have confidence in the integrity of their elections. Yet if one of the candidates is directly tied to a company whose voting machines are used in an upcoming election, that's a problem as far as trust and integrity is concerned.

[Buddaman]

3. Major conflict of interest here

[Iwasthere]

5. I dare you to bring that up on Eds radio show ...

... he will say something like, 'Not gonna go there'

WTF!? Why are the they all so scared to bring this up. This is NOT some conspiracy theory. This issue to derail the entire rMoney campaign. Though THEN what happens? There is a petition out there to disqualify the machines right now.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. I've sent it to Ed

Rachel, Lawrence, etc. Pretty much expecting no response to it ie: no coverage.