"When the Spanish online voting company SCYTL bought the largest vote processing corporation in the United States, it also acquired the means of manufacturing the outcome of the 2012 election. For SOE, the Tampa based corporation purchased by SCYTL in January, supplies the election software which records, counts, and reports the votes of Americans in 26 states–900 total jurisdictions–across the nation". ..." Find the rest of the article @ http://www.westernjournalism.com/spanish-company-will-count-...

"And if that doesn't make you squirm, George Soros is closely associated w/one of Obama's biggest contributors who, himself, is involved with SCYTL, the company that is going to count the votes!!"

This is about as insane as anything that's sprung forth from the right wing blogosphere. And Tag Romney has ownership interest in the company that makes the voting machines used in Ohio. The biggest threat to the vote on November 6 are the blatant attempts at voter suppression happening in many of the swing states. That's the real story. Actually trying to discourage voting as a political tactic is reprehensible.

Here are a couple of quotes from that article:

"But since WHEN does the nation need to outsource a task as uncomplicated and straightforward as vote-counting?"

Vote counting is complicated.

"leaving no TRACEABLE record"

I would hope not. That is really up to the voting authorities to manage, whether they outsource or not.

Here's one article on the Romney family relationships with Hart InterCivic that Tom mentioned:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/10/20/romney-family-investment-ties-to-voting-machine-company-that-could-decide-the-election-causes-concern/

And I completely agree that trying to discourage voting as a political tactic is reprehensible. I wonder what Stalin would have said about that.