Ohio Vote Flipping Petition- Got this in an email.....they were able to pick the locks....

[bkkyosemite]

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/romney_ohio/letter.html?registered=1&r=6985911&id=49535-1981547-HjgVOqx&country=United%20States&petition_id=1845&p=romney_ohio&redirect_url=%2Fcampaign%2Fromney_ohio%2Fletter.html


"add your name to this petition to Attorney General Eric Holder:"
"The Department of Justice must launch an immediate investigation into Hart Intercivic touch screen voting machines in Ohio, and take all actions necessary to block Republicans from stealing the 2012 presidential election with voting machines tied to the Romney family and campaign."

Voting machines tied to the Romneys could decide the election in Ohio.

Could a voting machine company with deep financial ties to the Romney family help Republicans steal the presidential election in Ohio?

It could happen. If this year's presidential election comes down to the electoral votes in Ohio, the deciding votes could be cast on electronic voting machines manufactured by Hart Intercivic.

Tell the Department of Justice: Don't let Republicans steal the election in Ohio with Romney-owned voting machines. Click here to automatically sign the petition.
A 2007 study conducted by Ohio's Secretary of State showed that Hart Intercivic's touch screen voting machines could be easily corrupted. The New York Times reported:

At polling stations, teams working on the study were able to pick locks to access memory cards and use hand-held devices to plug false vote counts into machines. At boards of election, they were able to introduce malignant software into servers.1

Hart Intercivic is majority owned by H.I.G. Capital which controls two of the five seats on the Hart Intercivic board. An investment fund with deep ties to the Romney family and the Mitt Romney for president campaign, H.I.G. Capital was founded by Tony Tamer, a major bundler for the Romney campaign, and it is one of the largest partners of Solamere Capital, an investment fund founded by Tagg Romney and Spencer Zwick, Mitt Romney's chief fundraiser from the 2008 presidential campaign.2 This makes the Romney family part owner of the voting machine company, through its interest in H.I.G. Capital.

Tell the Department of Justice: Don't let Republicans steal the election in Ohio with Romney-owned voting machines. Click here to automatically sign the petition.
What's more, three other H.I.G. Capital directors are major fundraisers for the Romney campaign, and H.I.G. Capital is the 11th largest contributor to the Mitt Romney campaign.3 Two of the company's directors, Douglas Berman and Brian Schwartz, were even in attendance at the Boca Raton fundraiser4 where Romney infamously declared:

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what... who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it... These are people who pay no income tax...[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.5

And as if the ties between Tagg Romney's Solamere, Romney contributors at H.I.G. Capital, and Hart Intercivic weren't astonishing enough, two members of Hart Intercivic's 5-member board of directors made direct contributions to the Romney campaign. That's right. Directors of the company that makes touchscreen voting machines that could decide the presidential election in Ohio, have made contributions to the Mitt Romney for President campaign.

It is disturbing and dangerous that Hart Intercivic, the company that makes the machines that will count many of the votes in Ohio on election night has deep financial ties to family members of Mitt Romney. And that its leadership has been actively involved presidential campaign by donating and bundling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Mitt Romney. The fact that these machines are easily corruptible touch screen voting machines makes matters even worse.

Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are locked in a tight election race which could very well be decided by Ohio's 18 electoral votes. We must take action now.

http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6985911&p=romney_ohio&id=49535-1981547-HjgVOqx&t=10

Thank you for all you do to protect the integrity of our Democracy.

Becky Bond, Political Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets

1. Bob Driehaus, "Ohio Elections Official Calls Machines Flawed," New York Times, December 15, 2007.
2. Rick Ungar, "Romney Family Investment Ties To Voting Machine Company That Could Decide The Election Causing Concern," Forbes, October 20, 2012.
3. "Mitt Romney (R) Top Contributors." Open Secrets, October 1, 2012.
4. Dave Gilson, Who Was at Romney's "47 Percent" Fundraiser?, Mother Jones, Sept. 18, 2012.
5. MoJo News Team, "Full Transcript of the Mitt Romney Secret Video," Mother Jones, September 19, 2012."
© 2012 CREDO. All rights reserved


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[siligut]

1. ODIHR Director Ambassador Janez Lenarcic sent a letter to Hillary

WARSAW, 24 October 2012 – Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), expressed his grave concern today over the threat of criminal prosecution of OSCE/ODIHR election observers.

This threat, contained in an open letter from the Attorney General of Texas, is at odds with the established good co-operation between OSCE/ODIHR observers and state authorities across the United States, including in Texas, Lenarčič said, adding that it is also contrary to the country’s obligations as an OSCE participating State.

The ODIHR Director shared his concerns in a letter to United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“The threat of criminal sanctions against OSCE/ODIHR observers is unacceptable,” Lenarčič said. “The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections.”

http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/96639

He went on to say that they had no intention of influencing or interfering in the election, they were there strictly to observe.

You can read all of their analysis on the website, but it isn't very encouraging, take this for example:

ELECTIONLINE.ORG found “widespread reports of voting system troubles, sporadic incidents of voter
intimidation and/or poll worker confusion over voter identification requirements and some breakdowns at
polling places because of problems with newly-mandated voter registration systems…” Voters in some states reported instances of “vote flipping”, whereby a machine indicated a choice other than the choice made by the voter. However, none of these reports indicate any intentional wrongdoing and are likely the result of a software or programming malfunction.

There is an email address and phone number for the elections department.

Elections Department, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Ul. Miodowa 10
00-251 Warsaw
Poland
Office: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail]

Texas is acting like they have something to hide, HART Intercivic is located in Austin. I feel like I am in the twilight zone.

[malokvale77]

6. You bet your sweet ass...

Texas has something to hide.

Bush beat the most popular governor in Texas history. Really!!!

Abbott is a shill. And that's being nice

[bkkyosemite]

2. It's not malfunction. I have a 150,000 thread up with stats that are very revealing.

[malokvale77]

9. You are right...

Malfunction my ass. They're doing exactly what they were programmed to do. STEAL ELECTIONS.

[liberalmuse]

3. So Snopes.com is wrong about these machines?

I read up on them the other day on Snopes, but am wondering if they have misinformation?

[renate]

4. k & r

This kind of thing is really my only worry about election day.

[msongs]

5. relax already, the demcocratic party isn't much interested in this issue nt

[malokvale77]

7. What?

[OldDem2012]

8. And you know this because.....?? nt.

[snot]

10. panic already, the demcocratic party isn't much interested in this issue.

We know this bec. many of us concerned about electronic voting/tabulation have been running around with our hair on fire since 2004, to no avail as of yet. So . . . that doesn't mean we shd give up; but it does seem to show that most Dem pols don't care, for reasons I don't yet understand.

[bkkyosemite]

11. And why shouldn't they be?