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Smartmatic has documented historical business links to Venezuela: it was founded by Venezuelan engineers, ran Venezuela’s 2004 referendum system, and for a time owned U.S. vendor Sequoia, prompting a ...
Claims that Smartmatic or Dominion were created by — or directed by — the Venezuelan government to alter U.S. election results rest on a mix of verifiable corporate history and disproven conspiracy cl...
Smartmatic was founded in the early 2000s by Venezuelan engineers Antonio (Antonia/Antonio variant appears in sources) Mugica and Roger Piñate and is reported to be majority‑owned by the founders’ fam...
Smartmatic began as a Venezuela-rooted technology firm that built electronic voting systems and expanded into a global provider of election technology, running or supporting dozens of national and loc...
If you need an “official” table of 2026 Federal Poverty Level (FPL) figures for ACA calculations, the authoritative source is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE) poverty guidelines...
The Smartmatic acquisition of U.S. voting-machine maker Sequoia prompted a CFIUS review that the companies say they voluntarily requested in late October 2006 and that federal authorities opened as an...
Smartmatic’s voting architecture as deployed between 2004 and 2017 was an integrated, end‑to‑end election system combining voter authentication and registration, touchscreen ballot marking and voting ...
The Smartmatic/Sequoia episode prompted a CFIUS inquiry in late 2006 after media and congressional concerns about foreign influence, but the Committee did not issue a public, detailed report of findin...
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) subjected Smartmatic’s 2005 acquisition of Sequoia to interagency scrutiny after congressional and media concerns about Smartmatic’s Ve...
Multiple prominent venture-capital and institutional investors have publicly backed StarkNet / StarkWare across several rounds: Series B and D backers include Paradigm, Sequoia, Greenoaks, Coatue, Tig...