Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Does the Romney Family Now Own Your e-Vote?

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Monday, October 22, 2012

Does the Romney Family Now Own Your e-Vote?

Click here to access article by Gerry Bello, Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman from The Free Press.

Not that it makes much difference which One Percent candidate wins, but this report on certain types of voting machines is just another illustration of the pervasive corruption now existing under capitalist rule in the center of the Empire.

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 6. Hart machines will also be used elsewhere in the United States.