What if I told you that the people behind the Russian conspiracy theory are the same people behind the chaos on Election Day?
Because it's true.
2/ In 2016, lawyer Marc Elias and his firm Perkins Coie were working for Hilary Clinton when they paid for the Russian dossier - which then led to FBI spying and years of media hysteria.
Now guess who's behind the 22 lawsuits that have pushed states to expand mail-in voting?
3/ Yes, Marc Elias and Perkins Coie.
Let's look at Pennsylvania to see how it works.
Back in May, Elias represented the Pennsylvania Alliance for Retired Americans (PARA) in one of those lawsuits.
But this single line from PARA's website reveals who he's really representing:
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.