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California company that provides electronic voting systems
Smartmatic is the dominant and best-documented supplier of electronic voting technology in Venezuela from the 2004 rollout through multiple national contests up to 2017, supplying touchscreen machines...
Smartmatic was founded in 2000 (or around 1999 in some accounts) by Venezuelan engineers Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola and Roger Piñate; Antonio Mugica is widely described as the company’s CEO a...
Documents and contemporary reporting show Smartmatic’s founders are Venezuelan nationals (Antonio Mugica, Roger Piñate, Alfredo Anzola) and the company won large Venezuelan contracts beginning in 2004...
Smartmatic’s origins and early contracts in Venezuela are well documented: the company was founded by Venezuelan engineers and won major Venezuelan election contracts in the early 2000s, and a Venezue...
Court filings and media reporting show multiple defamation suits and preexisting government reviews exposed ownership and corporate-history details: Smartmatic disclosed that its principal shareholder...
Smartmatic’s ownership structure and corporate maneuvers in the 2000s — notably the acquisition of U.S. vendor Sequoia and complex international ties to Venezuela — directly triggered regulatory scrut...
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) reviewed Smartmatic’s 2005 acquisition of Sequoia Voting Systems amid concerns that opaque foreign ownership—particularly ties to Venez...
Smartmatic’s most consequential corporate change since 2006 was its short‑lived U.S. expansion through the acquisition and subsequent divestiture of Sequoia Voting Systems between 2005 and 2007, a seq...
Contemporaneous claims that Smartmatic had operational and ownership ties to the Venezuelan government rested on a mix of corporate records, media reporting about early Venezuelan contracts, a 2006 U....
Smartmatic’s public story about who controls the company has shifted from a complex, multinational corporate web to a simplified, family‑centered ownership narrative — a change reflected in PR pages, ...