Vote counting company tied to Romney

[Blackburn]

Looking beyond the well-documented Google choking laundry list of apparent fraud, failure and seeming corruption that is associated with Hart Intercivic, an ongoing Free Press investigation turned its attention to the key question of who owns the voting machine companies. The majority of the directors of Hart come from the private equity firm H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. has been heavily invested in Hart Intercivic since July 2011, just in time for the current presidential election cycle. But who is H.I.G Capital?

Out of 49 partners and directors, 48 are men, and 47 are white. Eleven of these men, including H.I.G. Founder Tony Tamer, were formerly employed at Bain and Company, and two of those men, John P. Bolduc and Douglas Berman are Romney bundlers along with former Bain and H.I.G. manager Brian Shortsleeve.

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4725

[Lucretia]

Oh, no. One bourgeois candidate might cheat another bourgeois candidate. This is serious stuff.

[Ocean Seal]

Oh, no. One bourgeois candidate might cheat another bourgeois candidate. This is serious stuff.
I don't really care about bourgeois candidates, but this is actually stuff that we should pay attention to. Not for bourgeois candidates, but for people who actively tell us to participate in the system. Besides this website has quite a few pieces of news about liberal causes. Not my fight, so whatevs.

[RebelDog]

It would save a lot of time if they just cut the deck to decide who gets the white house.

[Prof. Oblivion]

Bain has hundreds of employees. So because some of these employees went to another Private Equity firm that took over this company, all of a sudden that means that there's some kind of conspiracy to rig voting machines in Romney's favor?

[Red Commissar]

TBH, this doesn't sound much different from when Romney supporters accused Obama of doing the same regarding contracts for voting machines (though it was shown false later):

http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/scytl.asp

[Yazman]

What amazes me is that while people in here adamantly defends the sanctity of the pure and perfect, never tampered with American electoral system, there is one issue that strikes me as a real big deal here:

Having a privatised, for-profit entity be in control of counting votes. Seems like a terrible situation to me, and were there votes being messed with here and there, it seems like a for-profit entity would be involved with it for sure. Shouldn't vote counting be done strictly by independent, non-profit organisations and not by private entities that have vested interests in certain candidates winning?

[atom]

Yeah, I really doubt that vote rigging is a big thing. Capitalism wins regardless of which stooge gets to sit in the white house next year.

[Prof. Oblivion]

Companies that manufacture voting machinery don't count votes.

[Catma]

In 2004, the head of Diebold, manufacturer of electronic voting machines, said he would "deliver ohio" to Bush. If that story didn't get any traction, why should this?


Companies that manufacture voting machinery don't count votes.

*snort*