My latest:

In 2010, Dominion Voting Systems purchased a company that had been under U.S. scrutiny for potential ties to the Venezuelan Chavez regime.

The purchase included intellectual property, hardware, software, and firmware.

#Election2020results

thenomanzone.com/index.php/2020…
#DominionVotingSystems (a Canadian company) acquired Sequoia Voting Systems in 2010.

Sequoia was sold to Dominion by their parent company, Smartmantic. Smartmantic had Venezuelan founders & collaborative ties companies with partial Chavez regime ownership. #2020Election
In the purchase of Sequoia, #Dominion acquired the company’s intellectual property, software, firmware, and hardware.

Essentially, the way the machines worked, their design, & programming was transferred to Dominion with the purchase.

Dominion's press statement 👇
Smartmatic & the Venezuelan government had categorically denied all allegations that Sequoia was owned / influenced by the Chavez regime.
In 2006, Smartmatic voluntarily agreed to a CFIUS investigation - but TWO months after the investigation had begun, Smartmatic withdrew Sequoia from the probe, stating they were putting the company up for sale.
Fast forward to the 2020 presidential election - now Dominion Voting Systems is at the heart of multiple “glitches” that resulted in misallocated votes in Michigan and machine shut downs in Georgia.

Many legislative / political officials deny the need to look into these issues.
But the company that Dominion Voting Systems purchased, Sequoia, was under review for ties to socialist governments back in 2004-2006.

This fact has been overlooked and ignored.

But what's the deal? Why is the Venezuelan link important?
In preparation for Venezuela’s '04 election, Smartmatic-Sequoia teamed up with a Venezuelan company called Bitza to provide voting machines for the upcoming election.

The election would decide whether or not Hugo Chavez would continue his rule over the county. It was a big deal
The issue? 28% of Bitza was owned by the Chavez government. Bitza and Smartmatic then partnered with the temporarily privatized Venezuelan telephone company, CANTV.
The three collaborated to set up digital voting booths that would allow votes to be cast & counted electronically.

While CANTV was publicly owned for the ‘04 election, it became a state-sanctioned media outlet when Chavez took control of it in 2007
archive.indianexpress.com/news/venezuela…
The election resulted in the continuation of Chavez’s control of Venezuela.

International communities accepted the results, however many groups within Venezuela questioned the reliability of the vote results. jstor.org/stable/2320873…
This collab w/ state-owned Bitza red flagged Smartmatic-Sequoia.

Smartmatic then categorically denied any links to the Venezuelan government - and the Venezuelan government has always echoed that statement.
"No foreign government has ever held a stake in Smartmatic," - Antonio Mugica, CEO of Smartmatic.

"The government of Venezuela doesn’t have anything to do with the company aside from contracting it for our electoral process," - Venezuelan ambassador Bernardo Alvarez.
While no U.S. lawsuits were filed or indictments issued regarding the suspected ties between Smartmatic-Sequoia and the Chavez government, Antonio Mugica, one of the founders of Smartmatic, was denied a re-entry visa by the U.S.

Source vcrisis.com/index.php?cont…
Conclusion:

Dominion purchased Sequoia INCLUDING their intellectual property, hardware, software, and firmware. This means all features of the voting machines and the way they operated was transferred to Dominion.
It is unclear what changes Dominion has made to those original models.

Remember: Sequoia and it’s parent company, Smartmatic, were under scrutiny by multiple U.S. government officials for suspicions that the company was either partially owned by or influenced by the Chavez gov.
Today, the foreign owned Dominion Voting Systems services roughly 30 states and Puerto Rico. They and two other machine manufacturers make up 90% of the electronic voting infrastructure in the U.S.
List of all sources: web.archive.org/web/2011071814…
Venezuela 2004 Election Forensics Report:

jstor.org/stable/2320873…

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