Are dominion ams smartmantic polling machines produced in Venezuela
Executive summary
Dominion Voting Systems is a North American company founded in Canada in 2003 that later relocated significant operations and headquarters to the United States, and its voting equipment is produced and supported in North America — not manufactured in Venezuela [1] [2] [3]. Public materials from election officials and county guidance explicitly note that Dominion and Smartmatic are separate companies and that Dominion does not license Smartmatic software, undermining claims that Dominion machines are Venezuelan-made or tied to Venezuelan firms [4].
1. The corporate record: Dominion’s origins and headquarters are North American
Dominion Voting Systems was founded in Toronto in 2003 and has long been described as a North American firm with development and operations in Canada and the United States; multiple company profiles and research summaries place its headquarters and major offices in Canada and the U.S., including Denver, Colorado addresses in corporate directories [1] [2] [3].
2. Manufacturing footprint: made in North America with global components, not Venezuela
Congressional testimony and public filings show Dominion’s tabulators and other products are manufactured in North America while acknowledging that some components are sourced overseas (the company has said it uses components from China, for example); nothing in the available material claims manufacturing in Venezuela [5] [1]. County guidance reiterates that Dominion’s systems produce paper records and are certified through U.S. testing labs and authorities — descriptions consistent with domestic manufacturing and certification processes rather than foreign production in Venezuela [4] [6].
3. Smartmatic confusion: a common source of the Venezuela claim, but separate companies
Much of the online rhetoric that ties voting machines to Venezuela conflates Dominion with Smartmatic, a separate voting-technology vendor; local election officials and public-facing county fact sheets explicitly state Dominion and Smartmatic are separate and that Dominion does not use Smartmatic software, which undercuts the broad-stroke claim that “Dominion machines come from Venezuela” [4]. The sources provided do not include a comprehensive history of Smartmatic’s corporate structure or production locations, so this analysis cannot fully adjudicate Smartmatic’s country-of-origin claims using the supplied reporting.
4. Why the Venezuela narrative spread: politics, misinformation and the leverage of confusion
The record shows that Dominion was the focal point of widespread misinformation after the 2020 U.S. election; hand recounts and state audits validated tallies in key states where Dominion equipment was used, and many expert analyses and official reviews found no evidence of vote-flipping or foreign manipulation tied to Dominion machines [1] [4]. The available reporting indicates these debates have been highly politicized, producing incentives for actors to conflate vendors, reuse foreign‑origin narratives, and amplify claims that serve partisan goals rather than fact-based inquiry [1] [2].
5. What the sources do and do not prove — and the responsible conclusion
The documentation supplied establishes that Dominion is North American in origin and operation, that its equipment is certified and used across the U.S. and Canada, and that its supply chain includes components from other countries but not Venezuela in any documented way [1] [2] [5] [6]. The sources explicitly separate Dominion from Smartmatic [4], but they do not provide a complete sourced account of Smartmatic’s manufacturing locations; therefore, while the evidence in hand rules out the specific claim that “Dominion AMS/Smartmatic polling machines are produced in Venezuela,” it cannot fully adjudicate every variation of the claim about Smartmatic without additional reporting on that company beyond the materials provided.