1/ Trump is turning up the heat on #Smartmatic, suggesting software they used during the election of Hugo Chavez is now linked to #DominionVotingSystems.
I've already highlighted some of these ties.
But now I want to present information that is more favorable to Smartmatic.
2/ In 2004, Smartmatic won a $128 million contract to manage a referendum on the recall of Chavez. Polls showed Chavez facing defeat and the opposition was confident of victory.
Smartmatic provided the ballot machines and ensured the votes were ready on the night of Aug 15.
3/ Two weeks after the referendum, on Aug 27, the US embassy sent a report back to Washington, describing what happened that night.
The following tweets are taken almost verbatim from that report, and they shed some new light on Smartmatica and their current CEO Antonio Mugica.
1/ Trump's legal team is suggesting software from Smartmatic undermined the US election.
One question is how did they go from being a small and virtually unknown company in Venezuela to winning a $128 million election contract with Hugo Chavez's govt in 2004.
Leet's find out.
2/ One clue comes from the publication el Politico.
In 2017 they linked Smartmatic co-founder Alfredo José Anzola to the head of the country's election council, Jorge Rodriguez, who later became VP in Chavez's government.
It's also rumored Anzola was dating Rodriguez's sister.
3/ I think he was. A diplomatic cable sent from the US embassy in Caracas in 2004, mentions a fire in the sister's parking garage on August 6.
And it says the authorities found a Smartmatic voting machine in a car parked next to the car that was burned.
1/ Maybe you heard @SidneyPowell1 has a whistleblower from Smartmatic.
They say the software used by Dominion in the US is descended from the same software that #Smartmatic used to handle elections for Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
2/ #DominionVotingSystems denies links to Smartmatic and insists their software is secure.
So who's right?
Well, on Smartmatic's website they refer to two of their patented inventions: Edge2Plus and HAAT.
3/ Now let's look back to when Dominion bought Sequoia from Smartmatic in 2010.
One year later, they hired a company called SLI to test their products so they could get US government approval to handle elections.
1/ So I'm kicking back watching a YouTube video of Dominion at Congressional hearings earlier this year, and I noticed something.
Just behind CEO Poulos, doesn't that look like Eric Coomer?
2/ Now I'm sitting there wondering, does Poulos know that he's brought with him into Congress a guy who loves Antifa. Someone who said **ck the USA and worse.
And who also said this: "Don’t worry about the election, Trump’s not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that!”
3/ How does Poulos not know that the guy behind him - his director of strategy - is a rabid supporter of Antifa.
Why are we asked to trust Poulos with an election when his right-hand man wants the president dead.
1/ So you might have heard the Pennsylvania Supreme Court just ruled against Trump's lawsuit. All 5 Democrat justices said observers had a right to be in the room, not the right to actually observe. The 2 Republican justices dissented.
Are you ready to go down a rabbit hole?
2/ Three of the Democrat justices were elected in 2015 in a campaign that set a national spending record in a Supreme Court race.
The three justices - Kevin Dougherty, David Wecht and Christine Donahue - raised $3.98 million, $2.88 million and $1.95 million respectively.
3/ Where did the money come from? Here's a clue.
I found this in a blog post by Democracy Alliance, the powerful left-wing group founded by George Soros.
"In 2015, (we) made a critical investment that helped establish a progressive majority on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court."
1/ Quick comment about this statement from Dominion:
"Dominion has no company ownership relationships with any member of the Pelosi family, the Feinstein family, or the Clinton Global Initiative, Smartmatic, Scytl, or any ties to Venezuela." dominionvoting.com
2/ It's a lawyer's answer. Because we now know they left out a very interesting connection to the Democrat Party.
In 2018, they were bought by Staple Street, where board member William Kennard is one of the Democrats' most powerful movers and shakers.
3/ Kennard is a big bundler for Obama and the DNC (link below), was Obama's envoy to the EU, the FCC chairman under Clinton, and a key player behind the Democrats TTIP trade deal (later killed by Trump).