I have signed a petition for investigation into Tagg Romney's ownership of some voting machines?

[RUKiddingtoo]

Good for you. Democrat names on a petition don't have a good track record for truth.

[crookedthrill058]

I saved hundreds on auto insurance by switching to Geico.

[hugedress594]

You do know if anyone really looks into voter fraud... a lot of democrats are going to be in trouble.

[cooingBeggar657]

If you know anyone who isn't a drooling idiot, they're embarrassed for you.

He doesn't own ANY voting machines at all. Not even one. The STATE owns them.
He doesn't own the company that made them.
He doesn't own the company that distributes them.

Further, these machines are the most secure; most cheat-proof voting method we ever had except for those giant upright-piano-sized steel monsters you can't possibly remember*. That's WHY Democrats want to PREVENT using them.

[political junkie]

looking at the last link Janie provided and thinking about the secretary of state being republic in Ohio, wanted to post some of the quotes in the Kennedy article posted in rolling stones on 2004 Secretary of state's funny business

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0601-34.htm

The wildest discrepancy came from the precinct Mitofsky numbered ''27,''
in order to protect the anonymity of those surveyed. According to the exit poll, Kerry should have
received sixty-seven percent of the vote in this precinct. Yet the certified tally gave him only
thirty-eight percent. The statistical odds against such a variance are just shy of one in 3
billion.(40)

But in the battle for Ohio, Republicans had a distinct advantage: The man in charge of the
counting was Kenneth Blackwell, the co-chair of President Bush's re-election committee.(43) As
Ohio's secretary of state, Blackwell had broad powers to interpret and implement state and
federal election laws -- setting standards for everything from the processing of voter registration
to the conduct of official recounts.(44) And as Bush's re-election chair in Ohio, he had a
powerful motivation to rig the rules for his candidate. Blackwell, in fact, served as the ''principal
electoral system adviser'' for Bush during the 2000 recount in Florida,(45) where he witnessed
firsthand the success of his counterpart Katherine Harris, the Florida secretary of state who
co-chaired Bush's campaign there.(46)

Blackwell -- now the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio(47) -- is well-known in the state
as a fierce partisan eager to rise in the GOP. An outspoken leader of Ohio's right-wing
fundamentalists, he opposes abortion even in cases of rape(48) and was the chief cheerleader for
the anti-gay-marriage amendment that Republicans employed to spark turnout in rural
counties(49). He has openly denounced Kerry as ''an unapologetic liberal Democrat,''(50) and
during the 2004 election he used his official powers to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of
Ohio citizens in Democratic strongholds. In a ruling issued two weeks before the election, a
federal judge rebuked Blackwell for seeking to ''accomplish the same result in Ohio in 2004 that
occurred in Florida in 2000.''(51)

The most extensive investigation of what happened in Ohio was conducted by Rep. John
Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.(52) Frustrated by his party's
failure to follow up on the widespread evidence of voter intimidation and fraud, Conyers and the
committee's minority staff held public hearings in Ohio, where they looked into more than
50,000 complaints from voters.(53) In January 2005, Conyers issued a detailed report that
outlined ''massive and unprecedented voter irregularities and anomalies in Ohio.'' The problems,
the report concludes, were ''caused by intentional misconduct and illegal behavior, much of it
involving Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell.''(54)

''Blackwell made Katherine Harris look like a cupcake,'' Conyers told me. ''He saw his role as
limiting the participation of Democratic voters. We had hearings in Columbus for two days. We
could have stayed two weeks, the level of fury was so high. Thousands of people wanted to
testify. Nothing like this had ever happened to them before.''

I did sign the petitions but remember they go at this in many ways go to youtube and watch uncounted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJz09T0HME in the film see 3:00 to 6:00 for some of the ways they used to rig vote

In the 1st minute of the film you see Fitrakis, Conyers, Arnebeck and others who did so much then to try to help, investigate and get the word out and a little of the hearings of workers and poll workers

also see about 51:15 to about 60:00 especially looking at about 55 to see demonstrated how easy it was to rig the voting machines in 2000 by the man who passed a lie detector test and testified under oath before us congress that he designed such software to rig the vote by (now) Senator Feeney who was Jed bushes running mate.

[calendar girl]

also see the films turd blossoms for a quick overview of this (scroll down right side of page)
so they dont just program to hack the vote but to cause machines to fail in selected democratic districts

http://www.myspace.com/sherimyers#! (Ohio activist)