Presidential Election: Tech Company Employees Vote With Contributions

PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Mitt Romney

$421,085

PwC employees contributed $421,085 to the 2012 Romney campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. One hot political issue being watched closely by PwC was a potential U.S.-China oversight auditing deal. PwC Chairman Dennis Nally recently told Reuters that all of the Big Four accounting firms have been talking with regulators in the U.S. and China in a bid to win an oversight auditing deal. PwC spent $2.71 million on lobbying in 2011, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.