Trump lied shamelessly. But that doesn’t mean we shld become overly trusting of voting machine vendors. “Democracy is not faith based.” - V. Collier

Smartmatic archived website: web.archive.org/web/2004081502…

Congressional investigation of Smartmatic in 05. 1/ maloney.house.gov/media-center/p…
2/ Screenshot from the Congressional investigation of Smartmatic.
3/ Smartmatic and Dominion are NOT the same company, and the only US jurisdiction that used a Smartmatic-built voting system in 2020 was LA County, which paid them an obscene amount to build it (about $300 million).
4/ CIA agent’s 2009 Congressional testimony about the 2004 election in Venezuela and electronic voting generally. mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-…
5/ Screenshots from post 4.
6/ Although LA county is currently the only US jurisdiction with a Smartmatic-built system (and there is 0 evidence it had anything to do w/ Trump’s loss), I was told last year by someone in the industry that they are planning or hoping to expand into multiple other states.

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