Will DOJ investigate Tagg Rmney's recent investment in voting machines?

[redfox]

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/19137

apologies for typo in heading...

NYT article from earlier this year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/us/politics/ties-to-romney-08-helped-fuel-equity-firm.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[peggy]

Very interesting....Hail to the Chief!:(

[Gregg]

Not that it shouldn't be looked at, but owning stock in a company that makes voting machines is a lot different than actually owning voting machines.

[iris lily]

Not that it shouldn't be looked at, but owning stock in a company that makes voting machines is a lot different than actually owning voting machines.

I don't understand why this is an issue, anyway. There is no voter fraud, it never happens. If that's what this is about we can all rest easy.

[Alan]

I don't understand why this is an issue, anyway. There is no voter fraud, it never happens. If that's what this is about we can all rest easy.
LOL

I live just outside (less than a mile) the Ohio county in question. The area is one of the most reliably red voting districts in the state. Seems to me that even if there was a nefarious master plan it would be better achieved just about anwhere but.

So it goes...

[Gregg]

I don't understand why this is an issue, anyway. There is no voter fraud...

OMG Iris, you're absolutely right. I completely forgot that VOTER FRAUD DOES NOT EXIST.

[goldensmom]

OMG Iris, you're absolutely right. I completely forgot that VOTER FRAUD DOES NOT EXIST.

Yup, all that double voter’s registration in different states nonsense being reported on the news is just is made up stuff for a slow news day.

[JaneV2.0]

Voter fraud--like when Ann Coulter registers at a false address--is entirely different from election fraud, in which someone tampers with large numbers of votes, which is disturbingly easy to do with computerized machines-- a' la Diebold.

[ApatheticNoMore]

Voter fraud--like when Ann Coulter registers at a false address--is entirely different from election fraud, in which someone tampers with large numbers of votes, which is disturbingly easy to do with computerized machines-- a' la Diebold.

Yea, maybe easier now that they are getting rid of exit polling (of course some distrusted exit polling to begin with, but I don't know, I think I trust it over the hackable manipulatable machines):

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12213-americas-media-just-made-vote-rigging-easier

[LDAHL]

In our State, there's a Government Accountability Board that tests voting hardware/software before municipalities are authorized to use it. You can't even install upgrades without prior approval. I know that's imperfect, but it would take a pretty comprehensive conspiracy to steal an election. Of course if you believe "they" are "getting rid of" exit polling, anything's possible.

[Alan]

I must admit I'm a bit perplexed by the addition of exit polling to the discussion.

I'm aware that over the last couple of decades the media has used exit polling as a means of calling an election earlier than an official count could accomodate, and I'm aware that the AP and other news organizations have decided to abandon exit polling in certain states where it is believed that the results would be reliably one-sided. Plus, the mechanics of voting have changed. With so many states allowing early voting and a few limiting voting to mail-in ballots only, just how reliable can a national exit polling effort be?

But, rather than being a somewhat unreliable indicator of a trend, I fail to see what exit polls add to an election.

Color me confused..

[heydude]

we fill out a paper form (fill in the circles) and then a computer scans it.

i like how there is an actual paper trail. (and, they have counted by hand the votes when they are very close (recounts))

i am scared of those all electronic machines though in which there is no paper trail what so ever. that is scary.