Owners Of Electronic Voting Machine Company Are Romney Super-Fans

[SoCalDem]

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

We’re not really into conspiracy theories here, so let us just say this upfront: we are not presenting the following article as any kind of conspiracy theory. We will say, though, that the people who own voting machines in some important swing states have a pretty remarkable bias toward Mitt Romney and, you know, someone should probably keep an eye on this, no?

Okay, so here’s what we know:

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:

H.I.G. was founded by Tony Tamer, a former Bain employee and bundler for Mitt Romney’s campaign.

Of H.I.G.’s 22 American directors, 21 donated to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. One person made no political donations at all; one person donated to both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama; the remaining 20 directors donated exclusively to Mitt Romney in 2012. (See below for links to donations.) Of these 22 American directors, seven of them (nearly one-third) are former Bain employees. Now, we should note (as a reader helpfully pointed out), this is Bain & Co., where Mitt Romney used to work way back when and then left in order to start the affiliated Bain Capital. The connection is therefore a little more tenuous, but we still find H.I.G.’s overwhelming allegiance and financial support of the Romney campaign surprising (not that it’s surprising that a private equity company would lean Republican, but this level of support is pretty unusual).

Four of H.I.G.’s directors, Tony Tamer, John Bolduc, Douglas Berman, and Brian D. Schwartz, are Romney bundlers along with former Bain and H.I.G. manager Brian Shortsleeve


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[redqueen]

1. Deja vu...

all over again.

It's their only chance to get back in power, and they know it.

[RobertEarl]

3. Only reason they are in power

This is nothing new. They've had this setup for a decade now. But no one listened to those crazy conspiracy folks. Even the site in the OP admits it never listened.

[99th_Monkey]

2. This should be outlawed. No ifs ands or buts. Completely outlawed.

FOR PRIVATELY OWNED CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE TO NO ONE,
EXCEPT THEIR GREEDY INVESTORS TO FUCKING OWN OUR ELECTIONS
SHOULD BE CRIMINALIZED, OUTLAWED, BANNED.

IT STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN.


^^^yes, I'm shouting. Get over it ^^^^^

[Kurovski]

4. K&R. (nt)