CORRUPTION: Bain-Controlled Company Owns 2012 Voting Machines

--Vote counting company Hart Intercivic, whose machines have famously failed in the past, is tied to Mitt Romney and Bain Capital.

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Broadcast on October 4, 2012

[The David Pakman Show graphic]

[Pakman begins speaking before he appears on screen] Here's some interesting information.

We talked earlier in the week.

- maybe it was last week, I'm losing
track of time -

of voter fraud - voter suppression -
confirmed on the behalf of the Republican

Party and we talked about the fired
voter registration company. Now we have

uh... a lot of Bain alumni that are
raising big money as Mitt Romney

bundlers

and they are also involved

in the electronic voting machine
business. This is pretty interesting

stuff. This is kind of a repeat of that
infamous

CEO of Diebold, Wally O'Dell, who raised
money for Bush while his company

supplied the voting machines for 2004 election.

We're seeing almost the exact same thing,
Lewis.

[Lewis] Okay, continue.

[Pakman] No, I mean, that's it.

[Lewis] That's it? Alright, well yeah, no surprise.

[Pakman] So I'll tell the story.

In 234 counties of Texas,

the entire state of Hawaii,

the entire state of Oklahoma,

half of Washington, Colorado, counties in
swing state Ohio - votes are going to be

cast on these E-Slate and E-Pollbook machines. Now who makes those machines?

A company called Hart Intercivic.

Hart Intercivic machines famously tainted
in Tarrant County, which is Fort Worth,

adding ten thousand non-existent votes.
The Everett study, which was commissioned by

the Ohio secretary of state back in 2007 found that there were a

number of security flaws with the Hart Intercivic products. No surprise - we hear

all the time of these flaws.

[Lewis] Right.

[Pakman] An ongoing free press investigation turned

the attention to who owns the voting
machine companies. You know what's coming,

Lewis, we all know what's coming.

[Lewis] Here it comes. .

[Pakman] The majority of the directors of Hart Intercivic

come from a private equity firm. The
private equity firm is called HIG Captial.

Now HIG Capital has been
heavily invested in Hart since about

July of 2011 - just in time for the
current presidential cycle.

So the question is what? Well,

Who is HIG Capital?

Out of 49 partners and directors of
HIG Capital,

Forty-eight are men.

Forty-seven are white.

And eleven of these men, including the
founder,

Tony Tamer, were at one point employed by none other than. . .[leading Lewis to guess answer]

[Lewis] Mitt Romney?

[Pakman] Bain Capital.

[Lewis] Well, yeah.

[Pakman] Bain and company, to be specific. Two of
those men John [Balduk - unintelligible] and Douglas

Berman are Romney bundlers,along
with former Bain and HIG manager

Brian Shortsleeve. These employees have
given $338,000

to Mitt Romney's campaign. That's about fifteen hundred bucks per

employee. Bain Capital, by comparison, only
gave Romney $268,.

HIG is the 11th largest donor to the Mitt Romney

campaign and they are really working
hard for their man,

also owning a lot of the voting machines that will be tallying the results.

Ladies and gentlemen, the system is corrupt.

[Lewis] I don't care what state it is or where
the machines came from,

there should not be machines.

[Pakman] You think
we just need paper ballots?

[Lewis] Absolutely. You know why?

because if people are going to falsify things,

it's a lot harder to falsify 10,000

hand-written ballots than it is

[Pakman] It is.

[Lewis] doing this on a keyboard.

[Pakman] Yeah, but local news needs the results by
eleven p.m. eastern.

[Lewis] Don't care, don't care.

[Pakman] So ladies and gentlemen, that's what's going on. You to be aware of this - you need to be aware

of all the voter suppression and
election fraud that's going on.

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