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URGENT! Attorney General Eric Holder: Investigate Tagg Romney owning voting machines in OHIO.... (Original Post) meow2u3 Oct 2012 OP
Duer littlemissmartypants Oct 2012 #1
k/r nt limpyhobbler Oct 2012 #2
Unbelievable! avaistheone1 Oct 2012 #3
Quite Believable! bardahl Oct 2012 #19
Does anyone know anything about this? absolutley no information at the link. robinlynne Oct 2012 #4
No time for facts!!! Just sign!!! nt wtmusic Oct 2012 #8
Read this and you'll know why this is a MAJOR concern.... OldDem2012 Oct 2012 #9
Stop being a concern troll!!!1111!!! Don't you know the Rmoneys $$ is in a BLIND trust??!!!! riderinthestorm Oct 2012 #12
Hart Intercivic. got it. why on earth is the petiiton naming tagg ROmney? robinlynne Oct 2012 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author littlemissmartypants Oct 2012 #10
Again, I caution...the Bushies/Blackwell/Diebold STOLE Ohio in 2004. AzDar Oct 2012 #5
Done/kick glinda Oct 2012 #6
I also shudder to think of who owns all the other machines. The govt should own the machines. Michigan Alum Oct 2012 #7
paper ballots. that's what i want DonRedwood Oct 2012 #11
Bush created this privatization. made it mandatory through the "help america vote act" robinlynne Oct 2012 #14
Done... K&R kjackson227 Oct 2012 #15
I don't suppose it would be ethical to tell Holder there might be marijuana in those machines... nt gkhouston Oct 2012 #16
Done! K&R magical thyme Oct 2012 #17
I read 2 articles about this. It's not clear he OWNS them. He is a big shot of a co. that invested Honeycombe8 Oct 2012 #18
this is true? Jesus H Laura PourMeADrink Oct 2012 #20
my thoughts exactly upi402 Oct 2012 #21
We'd probably have more luck petitioning the U.N. to send in observers dflprincess Oct 2012 #22
K & R Wednesdays Oct 2012 #23
 

bardahl

(18 posts)
19. Quite Believable!
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 09:49 PM
Oct 2012

Au contraire, tis quite believable. These are, after all, the notorious Lyin Cheatin Romneys of Switzerland Tax Evasion Haven Amnesty...

robinlynne

(15,481 posts)
4. Does anyone know anything about this? absolutley no information at the link.
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 04:55 PM
Oct 2012

what voting machines? what company?

OldDem2012

(3,526 posts)
9. Read this and you'll know why this is a MAJOR concern....
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 05:57 PM
Oct 2012
Romney family buys voting machines through Bain Capital investment

QUOTE:

Tagg Romney, the son of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, has purchased electronic voting machines that will be used in the 2012 elections in Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, Washington and Colorado.

"Late last month, Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis at FreePress.org broke the story of the Mitt Romney/Bain Capital investment team involved in H.I.G. Capital which, in July of 2011, completed a "strategic investment" to take over a fair share of the Austin-based e-voting machine company Hart Intercivic," according to independent journalist Brad Friedman.

But Friedman is not the only one to discover the connection between the Romney family, Bain Capital, and ownership of voting machines
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riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
12. Stop being a concern troll!!!1111!!! Don't you know the Rmoneys $$ is in a BLIND trust??!!!!
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 07:52 PM
Oct 2012




Actually the story's so important I'm kicking it back up to the top of the page. Unbelievable.

robinlynne

(15,481 posts)
13. Hart Intercivic. got it. why on earth is the petiiton naming tagg ROmney?
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 08:08 PM
Oct 2012

Every single person on the board of HIG is from Bain CApital. Absolutley important, just a really poorly written petition.

Response to robinlynne (Reply #4)

 

AzDar

(14,023 posts)
5. Again, I caution...the Bushies/Blackwell/Diebold STOLE Ohio in 2004.
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 05:17 PM
Oct 2012

Past being prologue, this bears looking at (at least).

Michigan Alum

(335 posts)
7. I also shudder to think of who owns all the other machines. The govt should own the machines.
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 05:44 PM
Oct 2012

This is crazy. Can you imagine if all of the machines were owned by Dems? There would be so much screaming going on.....

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
18. I read 2 articles about this. It's not clear he OWNS them. He is a big shot of a co. that invested
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 08:25 PM
Oct 2012

in the company that owns them. Then I THINK (but not clear from the articles) that the company that owns them was bought outright by the company of which Tagg is a big shot. Tagg doesn't own that company he's a big shot in. He's a big shot or a partner (a part owner).

It's kinda murky, not like Tagg outright owning the voting machines.

It may or may not make a difference, but it's seems very unclear exactly what is going on. Still, it seems fishy.

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