Just Sayin ….
Can you imagine the hullabaloo if Barack Obama’s second cousin twice removed had bought the voting machines that will be used in Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, Washington and Colorado for this election? Goodness sake, Rush Limbaugh would quivering blubber himself to death. Which, if you think about it, might be kinda fun to watch. In all honesty we had a blue ribbon prize hog at the county fair that was daintier than Rush.
Anyway, back to the hullabaloo.
It appears that Tagg Romney, the prissy little spoiled brat who wants to fight the President, has figure out that he who counts the votes always wins the election.
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.
Now ain’t that just the damnest thing you’ve ever seen? These guys take their plutocracy very seriously.
Thanks to Kathleen, Martha, and Ralph for the heads up.
Words fail me.
But blessedly they do not fail others:
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/diebold-voting-machines-hacked-with-10-in-parts/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021054424
A friend of mine works in cyber security for the FBI, they send him to Black Hat and DefCon (the two biggest conventions for hackers and security experts) every year. One of his favorite presentations was made by one of the people who revealed how easy it was to manipulate these “technological improvements” to the voting process. His comment to me when he returned, “Oh my God….”
1Here’s a little something we can all sign
2http://www.change.org/petitions/attorney-general-eric-holder-investigate-tagg-romney-owning-voting-machines-in-ohio#
This petition needs more signatures. Please sign it for DOJ – AG Holder to investigate the voting machine debacle~
http://www.change.org/petitions/department-of-justice-investigate-tag-romney-owning-voting-machine-in-ohio
3It’s time we brought the UN to monitor our elections, just as they’ve done in third world countries.
4glf I am with you! Been saying so since damned 2000! I signed the petition and posted it to another site, hopefully it will stir some interest. May take it to stonekettle and see what Jim sez. Pretty sure he will foam at the mouth at having defended with his life a place that has declined to this level of cheating BS. I know I would! Maybe Harold Cook would like it too…
5It used to be the machines belonged to Bush cronies. So is it a matter of patronage now? Proof that Republicans consider the electoral process just another way to make money?
6I think it was Stalin who said “It’s not who votes that counts”.
“It’s who counts the votes.”
Republicans make sure……. they count the votes.
7Apparently we are going to get monitors from an international agency in several states, this makes us a 3rd world country
8when our elections are suspicious, I think we rate with Iran
and Zimbabwe, yes, the rethugs have brought us to this!
Which states and why have decided not to conduct exit polls?
jane i signed yours, did you sign mine?
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/investigate-evidence-voter-intimidation-ceos-and-business-leaders-election/Sf0CbvDS
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