Tagg Romney Invested in Ohio Electronic Voting Machines

Interesting.

http://www.politicolnews.com/tagg-romney-invested-in-ohio-electronic-voting-machines/#ixzz29rJxhKIE



Oct. 18, 2012 If the Romney’s can’t win legally, they’ll take over Ohio’s electronic voting machines through investments, a direct conflict of interest in a contentious state in this election.

The new owners of Ohio’s voting machines under the brand name HART Intercivic is none other than Tagg Romney the son of one of the candidates Mitt Romney. In recent weeks Tagg has taken a more “active role in his father’s campaign management” but when you look further, he also has a major problem with that role.


By virtue of conflict of interest alone, this role should be investigated by the DOJ preferably involving the addition of the FBI, Homeland Security and the CIA to ensure this connection will not endanger the vote in Ohio and other states.

After all isn’t the security of an election both state and federal authorities responsibility to ensure the election is not stolen, tampered, or results altered?


Tagg Romney the heir to the Romney fortunes (through Vulture Capitalism) is a chip off the old block and his dad scored big destroying American jobs through leveraging profitable US companies. Unfortunately for the employees of these companies they lost their jobs to cheaper labor in China sweat factories.

In 2008, after Romney lost the 2008 bid for President, it was all clear for Mitt Romney’s son Tagg Romney to invest in a company called Solamere Capital which is a direct subsidiary of Allen Stanford’s Bank and investment companies.

Solamere Capital

Allen Stanford was sentenced to 110 years in jail for one of the biggest 8 billion dollar ponzi scheme. The funds were never recovered for investors, and the SEC has never said Tagg Romney was not under investigation for his investments thereafter.

Tagg Romney tapped into Mitt Romney’s Rolodex of wealthy associates, political donors, wealthy investors and in particular Mitt Romney’s campaign fundraiser: Spencer Zwick.

Think Progress- Romney Family Investment -Ponzi Schemer Allen Stanford

The 10 million seed funds funds were said to have come from one of Ann Romney’s Blind Family Trust accounts which aren’t so blind after all. That seed money was also in the name of Mitt Romney and profits were made through this investment when Mitt partnered with his number one son.

The Voting Machine Connection to Ohio and Romney Family Investments

Bain Capital, Solamere Capital both of which are major investments for both Mitt and Tagg Romney are connected to many private equity investments.

As Lee Fang points out in his detailed analysis of the Romney investments

“Many of these private equity–owned companies rely on federal and state contracts, from HIG Capital’s Hart Intercivic, a voting machine company, to EnviroFoam Technologies, a biological and chemical decontamination firm that does business with the US military and is owned by Peterson Partners, a private equity firm listed in the Solamere prospectus.”

Solarmere’s tangled web of investments now includes Hart Intercivic voting machines which will be used in Cincinnati Ohio says Truth Out which could guarantee Mitt Romney the White House.

The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines- They Are Easily Hacked

Previous elections

The State of Ohio is Ground Zero for the White House, in particular Hamilton County a repeat of the George Bush election in 2004 would be devastating to the Obama campaign.

Truth Out

Quote:

“The widespread use of electronic voting machines from ES&S, and of Diebold software maintained by Triad, allowed Blackwell to electronically flip a 4% Kerry lead to a 2% Bush victory in the dead of election night.

ES&S, Diebold and Triad were all owned or operated by Republican partisans.

In election 2004, the shift of more than 300,000 votes after 12:20 am election night was a virtual statistical impossibility. It was engineered by Michael Connell, an IT specialist long affiliated with the Bush Family. Blackwell gave Connell’s Ohio-based GovTech the contract to count Ohio’s votes, which was done on servers housed in the Old Pioneer Bank Building in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Thus the Ohio vote tally was done on servers that also carried the e-mail for Karl Rove and the national Republican Party. Connell died in a mysterious plane crash in December, 2008, after being subpoenaed in the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal lawsuit focused on how the 2004 election was decided (disclosure: we were attorney and plaintiff in that suit).

HART INTERCIVIC MACHINES ARE KNOWN FOR GLITCHES, FAILURES AND COUNTING ERRORS:

The fact that the State of Ohio is now run by Republicans, the voting machines by republican operatives and keenly related to the Romney Family spells out: A Department of Justice Investigation now, not after the election.

All voting machines should be securely monitored because they are really easy to hack into by anyone including the parties that have a big stake in winning on November 6, 2012.

We showed this in our previous articles: The Hacking of Your Vote and Democracy July 8, 2012

For More Read: The Nation – By Lee Fang -Romney Family Recipe for Crony Capitalism

 

Your fukcing father is running for POTUS. Why would one of Romney's sons do something as idiotic as investing in electronic voting machines used in battleground state Ohio???

When Dubya won his 2nd term, the exit polls in Ohio, in one of the few times EVER in the recent history of modern polling, didn't accurately reflect the actual vote.
Diebold was the company contracted to provide the electronic voter machines that were in question, which had a proprietary source code that allowed a 3rd party user to CHANGE THE VOTES AFTER THEY HAD BEEN CAST.:smt092

This ain't no damn another conspiracy theory either.

In election 2004, the shift of more than 300,000 votes after 12:20 am election night was a virtual statistical impossibility. It was engineered by Michael Connell, an IT specialist long affiliated with the Bush Family. Blackwell gave Connell’s Ohio-based GovTech the contract to count Ohio’s votes, which was done on servers housed in the Old Pioneer Bank Building in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Thus the Ohio vote tally was done on servers that also carried the e-mail for Karl Rove and the national Republican Party.
Connell died in a mysterious plane crash in December, 2008, after being subpoenaed in the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal lawsuit focused on how the 2004 election was decided (disclosure: we were attorney and plaintiff in that suit).


Romney has been trailing in Ohio since the GOP primaries were over. We already know the GOP has been engaged in nationwide efforts to suppress voter turnout, but if there's any hint someone has tried to steal the 2012 election, it could tip this country to riots in the streets.

 

Whatever happened to "degrees of consanguinity" in these matters? In every governmental entity I ever worked for, there were prohibitions against family members being involved in election-related matters in jurisdictions where their relatives were up for election, and prohibitions against family members (up to like the 3rd or 4th degree of consanguinity) having interests in entities doing business with the government entity for which you work/represent/etc.

This smells fishy.

 

holy rusted metal batman! this cant be true!

tagg rmone.....


oh? whats that now? a rmoney bought voting machines right before the election his father is running in?

GTFO! No WAY!


(seriously? why is anyone shocked at this development?)

 

Shocked? No. Disgusted? Yes.

 

dunno about you but ive been disgusted for sum time before tagg "i wanna punch obama in the face" romney bought voting mchienes.

moral of de story...vote on papah

sorry my typing i so bad...im laying in bed with my mac at an angle typinf one handed...

 

But at least you're rocking that Mac...

 

i try not to..dont have SSD on it.


oh heavens!

did u see the ipad Mini?

im getting a retnia display 4th gen!
squeals.

 

Bloomberg talked about all the Apple innovations coming up on the next 12 months for about 30 minutes today, with industry analysts, fund managers and tech experts talking about the direction they're taking. That new iMac with the thinner screen/cpu? Dope! I want to get one for my son for Christmas, maybe next year.

 

Rite on the imac?

that thing is pure mac crack and i must have one.

 

it cost to be prez

 

Solamere is a private-equity fund started by Tagg Romney. Solamere is a "fund of funds," which means that it does not invest in companies directly. Instead, funds-of-funds invest in funds invested by "partners," which are other private-equity firms. These other firms then make investments in companies. H.I.G. Private Equity is a large private equity firm with $9 billion under management and offices around the country. Last summer (2011), Solamere partner H.I.G. made a controlling investment in a company called Hart InterCivic, which is the third-largest voting machine manufacturer in the country. Hart InterCivic makes the e-voting machines that will be used in critical counties in Ohio, along with other swing states.

Another fire put out...:smt113

Man...the liberals are working overtime this week to throw stuff at Romney. When do they find time to sleep? haha!

 

A..I'm pretty sure tagg is Mormon..which means he's off-limits to other men. And since its only been ok since tagg was 5 to not hate black people he can't be racist (technically)...I'm sure that line RUNS deep so he probably still is.
It's ok..you don't have to kiss his ass all the time.

B...there IS no excuse for how the Romneys make their money period. This funds of funds thing sounds worse than Bain capital. Why are you even offering an explanation as to how it's not corrupt?
As an added bonus...they've only been not racist against you specifically for a little longer than ive been breathing. For more info...refer to point A and the ass kissing incident.

C...to the romneys there are only two types of people in this world. Those who are shit and them themselves.
Do you own a dancing horse and hate old ladies on social security? The appropriate and moral answer would be no. If that is the case then the Romneys ain't gunna give five flicks about you.
If that's also the case..you really don't have to pucker up so tight to kiss ass.

 

THe degrees of separation doesn't make this story any less problematic.

From Forbes article about HIG and Tagg Romney;

A little more digging turns up a few tidbits of data than soon become ‘the story’.
Tony Tamer, H.I.G.’s founder, turns out to be a major bundler for the Mitt Romney campaign, along with three other directors of H.I.G. who are also big-time money raisers for Romney.
Indeed, as fate would have it, two of those directors—Douglas Berman and Brian Schwartz— were actually in attendance at the now infamous “47 percent” fundraiser in Boca Raton, Florida.
With that news, voters everywhere start to get this queasy feeling in the pits of their stomach.


But wait—if you’re feeling a bit ill now, you’ll want to get the anti-acids ready to go because it’s about get really strange.
To everyone’s amazement, we learn that two members of the Hart Intercivic board of directors, Neil Tuch and Jeff Bohl, have made direct contributions to the Romney campaign. This, despite the fact that they represent 40 percent of the full board of directors of a company whose independent, disinterested and studiously non-partisan status in any election taking place on their voting machines would seemingly be a ‘no brainer’.


To Mr. Bohl’s credit, after giving a total of $4,000 to “Romney For President”, it must have occurred to him that it might not look so good for a board member of a company whose voting machines are to be a part of the presidential election to be playing favorites—so he gave $250 to Barack Obama to sort of balance the scales.
Mr. Tuch? Not so much.


Interestingly, Mr. Bohl lists himself as an investor at H.I.G. Capital for his Romney contributions but his far smaller donation to Obama was done as “Jeff Bohl, self-employed innkeeper”.
And finally, we learn that H.I.G. is the 11th largest of all the contributors to the Romney effort.
Did I say “finally”? My bad…because there is, indeed, more.
Can you guess who is reported to have a financial relationship with H.I.G. Capital?


Numerous media sources, including Truthout, are reporting that Solamere Capital—the investment firm run by Mitt Romney’s son, Tagg, and the home of money put into the closely held firm by Tagg’s uncle Scott, mother Anne and, of course, the dad who might just be the next President of the United States—depending upon how the vote count turns out, in our little tale, in the State of Ohio—have shared business interests with H.I.G. either directly or via Solamere Advisors which is owned, in part, by Solamere Capital, including a reported investment in H.I.G. by either Solamere Capital or Solamere Advisors.

 

A. Not sure what you're even talking about in that "Tagg is a racist" post

B. Since inception Bain Capital has invested in hundreds of companies including AMC Entertainment, Aspen Education Group, Brookstone, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Clear Channel Communications, Domino's Pizza, DoubleClick, Dunkin' Donuts, D&M Holdings, Guitar Center, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Sealy, The Sports Authority, Staples, Toys "R" Us, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel. Have you heard of any of these companies? Just because you don't know how a private equity company or a "fund of a fund" operates doesn't mean that its bad.

C. What you fail to realize is that even though the Romney's are wealthy, they have given away almost $20 million in charitable contributions and give 10% tithes to their church. And no they do not hate old ladies on social security. If you read their policy you would know that they are preserving social security for the current generation. But are offering a new option for younger generations so they will actually have something in the future when they retire.

Sorry, I know this is a lot to take in...:smt073

 

Now I know for sure ghosts exist.. This crap right here is so transparent and unconvoluted I think I just saw one.

Like I say..
There is NO EXCUSING the amount of corrupt doings in this family.

 

Here are a couple of quick points:

1) If you give $20 to a friend and they go invest it with the KKK, does that make you a racist? Degrees of separation is a lame argument in this case. Just admit that the Democrats are grasping at straws with two weeks to the election.

2) The voting machines are legal and approved by Congress. Because they realized the hanging chad situation from 2000 was ridiculous.

3) Voting machines are able to be hacked. But tracking computer hackers is actually easier to do than stopping the voter fraud Democrats have been engaged in by registering in multiple states.

 

You really make me wunder where wunword got off to. Because I'm almost at the point where anytime I feel like responding to you I will simply put up an offensive GOP meme instead of typing out my reply.

You understand pictures better than words I assume?

 

That might be the better way to go. A picture might be better than typing out words for you. It's hard to debate with the facts, it's much easier to put out an "offensive GOP meme". Is this Barack Obama?

 

I meant offensive to those with a functional brain.
And it IS hard to debate the facts with someone who refuses to see them. At least we can agree on that.

20 million to charity. You show me a bonefide stat from a respected source that shows that that charity went to anything other than the Mormon church or something affiliated with the Mormon church and my first meme won't be as offensive to those who can actually think critically.