60/60 #41

1 - the number of voting machine companies that Mitt Romney owns. No kidding. The machines in Texas, Colorado, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Washington state come from Hart Intercivic, which is owned by HIG Capital, which received over $10,000,000 in "seed money" from Solamere Capital, which is Mitt Romney's personal holding company. Here's a poorly written, yet factually accurate article on the topic from Forbes. If you can't win fairly, change the voter registration and ID laws, the early voting periods, and "fix" the voting machines. 

Impossible? It's already happened.  In 2004, in the dead of election night, an electronic swing of more than 300,000 votes switched Ohio from the John Kerry column to George W. Bush, giving him a second term. A virtual statistical impossibility, the 6-plus% shift occurred between 12:20 and 2am election night as votes were being tallied by a GOP-controlled information technology firm on servers in a basement in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In defiance of a federal injunction, 56 of Ohio's 88 counties destroyed all election records, making a recount impossible. Ohio's governor and secretary of state in 2004 were both Republicans, as are the governors and secretaries of state in nine key swing states this year.