March 17, 2016 5:08 AM

Pro-Romney Firm's Purchase Of Voting Machine Company Raises Alarms

Posted by Staff

A private equity company run by fervent supporters of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney bought the third-largest voting machine company in the country last July, raising concerns about the appearance of impropriety, if not the possibility of impropriety itself.Apprehension that Romney supporters could be literally buying votes has been burbling on left-wing blogs since Freepress.org , an alternative website based in Columbus, Ohio, reported late last month about H.I.G Capital's purchase of Hart Intercivic.

H.I.G. Capital is a Miami-based private equity fund that manages $8.5 billion in capital. Hart Intercivic is a company exclusively in the business of manufacturing and programming voting systems.