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Smartmatic was officially incorporated in Delaware in April 2000 and headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. In April 2003, the company unveiled a prototype election automation machine. It was developed in-house and included the integration of hardware and software from design to deployment. The company moved its main headquarters to Amsterdam in 2004 and then London in 2012.
Smartmatic allegedly has 30 anonymous investors and silent partners who are mainly upper-class Venezuelans, including defense minister Jose Vicente Rangel and Chávez mentor Luis Miquelina, and others, according to a July 20, 2006,
State Department diplomatic cable that was leaked to Wikileaks.
The company publicly acknowledged that Venezuela’s government manipulated the results of the country’s 2017 Constitutional Assembly election.
Smartmatic said the turnout figures were overstated by at least 1 million votes, Reuters reported.
It was admitted by Smartmatic that the results can be manipulated,” Díaz told The Epoch Times. “Smartmatic later came out of Venezuela, but it’s been proven that this type of fraud goes wherever they go. What’s happening in the United States is exactly the same thing.”
“The program can make those changes from Trump to Biden,” she said, adding that “this change is almost impossible to detect.”
In Venezuela, the opposition was winning, the light went off, and when it came back, the results were flipped.
I was following the U.S. election and there came a moment where information stopped … nobody knew what had happened,” she said.
“There was nothing for a few hours—it’s exactly, exactly, exactly how Smartmatic operated in Venezuela.”
In 2005, Smartmatic bought Sequoia Voting Systems, a much larger and more established company based in Oakland, California. At the time, Sequoia had installed voting equipment in 17 U.S. states and Washington.
Such private equity firms, as well as
Dominion, were named in a scathing 2019 release by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who had raised concerns about the poor condition and vulnerabilities of voting machines and other election equipment, along with a lack of transparency, in letters to these firms.
ome Smartmatic employees later joined Dominion Voting Systems, which was founded in Toronto, in 2002 and also has offices in the United States and Serbia. In 2010, Eric Coomer, former Smartmatic vice president of engineering, joined Dominion.
According to a Dominion statement that has since been all but scrubbed from the internet, aside from a file saved by journalist Brad Friedman, the company announced on June 4, 2010, that it had “acquired the assets of Sequoia Voting Systems, a major U.S. provider of voting solutions serving nearly 300 jurisdictions in 16 states.”
Dec 8, 2020 Epoch Times by Bowen Xiao Behind a significant portion of voting machines used in the United States lies a complex web of questionable foreign ties, a hidden ownership structure, and transparency concerns with the software itself, as well as a connection between three key voting...
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