Severe conflict of interest?

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

Sum it up, Romney has interest in the company that runs voting machines in key locations in Ohio.

Honestly, I am not seeing a conflict of interest here.

Now if Romney were personally programming/maintaining/operating the machines I could see.

If Romney were in some official capacity and somehow influencing the states to purchase this specific machine than I could see CoI. But Romney does not have any official capacity.

But just having a financial interest in a company? I don't see it.

Even if Romney owned the company all by himself, I would not see a conflict of interest. These machines undergo a lot of testing and code verification. Any monkey-business is most likely at the local end than the manufacturing end.