Even as I enjoy all the spooky and frightening aspects of the Halloween holiday, the notion that a presidential candidate and family own voting machines is truly a chilling thought. Via a corporation headed by Mitt Romney's son Tagg, the company has successfully purchased the voting machines being used this November in Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma and Washington.
"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."
Just as I was reading and learning about this disturbing reality, over at KnoxViews, writer djuggler poses a question worth answering:
"Why is the purchase of the Ohio voting machines by Tagg Romney 1) legal and 2) not all over the news?"
If anyone remotely related to President Obama's family owned voting machines, FOX "News" would be relentlessly howling and screeching. And why aren't major media outlets covering the fact that Romney's family does own voting machines? FOX talkers gleefully accused the Obama administration of "cooking the numbers" so that unemployment rate numbers showed a drop - so surely they'd gleefully report that a presidential candidate's family owns voting machines, right? Unless, of course, the candidate is Mitt Romney.