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From Jim Hightower

Ohioans might also worry about the potential of massive election fraud through the electronic voting machines that will count their ballots on Nov. 6. Suspicions about the integrity of these "black box" e-vote machines, owned by Hart Intercivic, was heightened last year when that corporation was taken over by an obscure investment fund named HIG Capital.

Of the 22 Americans on HIG's board of directors, 21 are donors to Mitt Romney's current political campaign, and a third were former officials at Bain & Co. (where Romney got his start as a corporate takeover artist). HIG is the 11th largest source of donations to the Republican contender's campaign.

But Romney's noose around Ohio's vote count is even tighter than these cozy connections suggest, for HIG itself is largely owned by a private equity fund called Solamere. Who dat? Solamere was started in 2008 by Mitt's eldest son, Tagg, and the fund's startup cash came from Momma Ann and Uncle Scott Romney, with Papa Mitt chipping in $10 million and making a personal pitch to other potential investors.