Voting machine company invested in by who?

Hart InterCivic makes the voting machines being used in Hamilton County, population 833,00. *

Hart’s five corporate board members are executives of HIG Capital, a global private equity firm that made what it called a “significant” investment in Hart last year. Four HIG executives (Tony Tamer, John Bolduc, Douglas Berman and Brian D. Schwartz) have been identified as Romney bundlers by independent watchdog groups such as the Sunlight Foundation. HIG employees as a whole have donated $338,000 to the Romney campaign this year, according to Open Secrets.

And an investor in the company that invests in voting machines? Tagg Romney!! (reality stranger than fiction?)

Couldn't be a problem there could there? sigh.

*http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10/23/angst-about-counting-the-votes-in-ohio/

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