Vote fraud and the Hunt family

In my post below on the Ahmanson family, I've noted that people who dislike the very idea of democracy (at least secular democracy) have a strange tendency to buy into companies that provide voting machines. The Ahmansons, who tend toward the "Dominionist" version of fundamentalism, made their pile via Home Savings (an institution in California), and one wonders why experts in that field suddenly decided to invest heavily in a company such as ES&S, which provides much of our electronic voting infrastructure.

Think about it. If you hated ice cream, would you buy a controlling interest in Ben and Jerrys?

Another big investor in ES&S is Carolyn Hunt, and I'd like to know more about her. This site (among others) informs us that she is a product of the Hunt oil dynasty, but I am not so sure how she relates to dynasty founder H.L. Hunt.

You've surely heard about the flamboyant paterfamilias, one of the inspirations for Larry Hagman's character on Dallas. He won his start-up capital with a lucky poker hand and soon thereafter became convinced of his innate moral and intellectual superiority.

Like the Ahmansons, old man Hunt thought he could improve upon American-style democracy. He wrote a utopian novel called Alpaca which outlined his scheme of the way things ought to be. In an ideal state (Hunt felt), the rich would get four votes, while a young person of modest means would get but one.

Hunt believed in his book, which received wide distribution and advertisement. Did he convince Carolyn that his ideas had merit? And could that indoctrination have had any bearing on her later investment in ES&S?

The Hunt family tends to assoicate with people who are even less fond of democracy. William Herbert and Nelson Bunker Hunt provided start-up money for the Council on National Policy, a far-right power group devoted to such lovely causes as eugenics. Their associates included prominent post-WWII fascist Karol Sitko as well as various associates of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who has made no secret of his theocratic ambitions. I have no knowledge that Carolyn ever had any link to this unsavory organization.

Still..one wonders...