Romney Family Investment Ties To Voting Machine
Company That Could Decide The Election Causing Concern
“It’s
3:00 a.m. on November 7, 2012.
With the painfully close
presidential election now down to who wins the battleground state of Ohio, no
network dares to call the race and risk repeating the mistakes of 2000 when a
few networks jumped the gun on picking a winner.
“As the magic boards used by the
networks go ‘up close and personal’ on every county in the Buckeye State, word
begins to circulate that there might be a snafu with some electronic voting
machines in a number of Cincinnati based
precincts. There have already been complaints that broken machines were not
being quickly replaced in precincts that tend to lean Democratic and now, word
is coming in that there may be some software issues.
“The network political departments
get busy and, in short order, discover that the machines used in Hamilton
County, Ohio—the county home of Cincinnati— are supplied by Hart Intercivic, a
national provider of voting systems in use in a wide variety of counties scattered
throughout the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Hawaii, Colorado and Ohio.
“A quick Internet search reveals that there may be reason
for concern.
“A test conducted in 2007 by the Ohio Secretary of State
revealed that five of the electronic voting systems the state was looking to
use in the upcoming 2008 presidential election had failed badly, each easily
susceptible to chicanery that could alter the results of an election.
As reported in the New York Times, “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.”
“We learn that one of the companies whose machines had
failed was none other than Hart Intercivic…”
Cassi Creek:
I rarely read
“Forbes.” I’m don’t follow the financial
markets beyond a casual nod during the evening news. I am, however aware that “Forbes” is widely
respected and maintains a strong presence in financial circles. “Forbes” is one of the resources that is
generally trustworthy I don’t consider
it unimpeachable but when it voices concern I at least look at the evidence
they lay out.
There were
rumors in 2008 of flawed software programmed into the machines that record,
collate, and upload election results; and allegations of fraudulent results
skewing Ohio’s results for local, state, and national contests. Diebold denied any such flaws and fraud. Given the GOP\teavangelist insistence that
voter fraud is rampant along with the arrest of GOP minions for destroying
voter registration forms in several locations, there may very well be a
teavangelist effort to suppress or block every vote for a Democratic candidate
in the 2012 contests.
I’ve voted
using paper ballots many times and felt comfortable that my vote would be
recorded and added to the totals for the candidates I preferred. I’ve use mechanical voting machines, punch
ballots, and optical scanning machines to cast my votes and never really
doubted that my votes would be counted, at least falling into the range of
statistical probability. But here in
Washington County TN the machine used seems to be a combination push-button \
touch screen system. At the polls, a
paper trail documents my presence. There
is not, however, any paper record of how my votes were assigned and cast. Since I’ve experienced several recount
situations in my voting life, I’m of the belief that a paper trail should be
generated and maintained by the local election commission. With the machines we
used today, Infinity voting panel sold by “Microvote General Corporation voting
solutions “ There seems to be ample opportunity for the generation of spurious,
fraudulent votes in a manner that does not necessarily require local officials
to be aware of or create those votes.
The machine I used today in early voting is described by the
manufacture as follows.
“Infinity Voting Terminal
The Infinity Voting
Panel is a Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting device for use in
governmental elections. It incorporates an LCD panel to display the ballot,
individual buttons for operator control and voter selection, memory card
technology for activation control and data collection/transport, integral
battery operation capability and the latest embedded computer technology.”
A Clarksville TN article documents the
generation of 1500 spurious votes in one instance.
http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2006/07/30/can-we-trust-paperless-voting-using-electronic-machines/
I
don’t know any of the officials and/or volunteers who staffed early voting
today. I have no reason to distrust
them. Most likely, if they became aware
of a scheme to allow fraudulent voting they would rise up as angrily as would
I.
But
given the history of this machine, the hatred of the teavangelists/GOP for
Obama, and the built in opportunity to insert malicious programming with every
voter’s results, I have a discomfort factor about this election that I have
never encountered before.
I’ve
never encountered a situation before where a candidate for elected office can
find a means to purchase the machines used to cast and record votes. I find it a grievous and illegal conflict of
interest that should be sufficient reason to delay the election in those states
using machines made by Romney-owned corporations until paper ballots can be
printed and distributed. If this sort of
conflict, potentially permitting a direct generation of false votes, were to
take place in Iran or Iraq, Romney-Ryan would be pointing their fingers at the
event as an indication of political inability to hold a legitimate
election.
I
don’t trust Romney-Ryan, the GOP/teavangelists, and the machines mentioned
above to generate a legitimate election.
I believe that on 7 November 2012 we will be pointing our fingers at
Romney-Ryan and watching evidence of organized election fraud unfold. I sincerely hope I am wrong. But buying the voting machine company as a
present for Daddy is beyond the Pale.
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