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Claims of vote manipulation and ties to the Venezuelan government regarding Smartmatic's voting systems in the 2020 US election.
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...
Smartmatic was a major supplier of electronic voting technology in Venezuela from the early 2000s through the 2010s, providing machines, software, training and logistics for multiple national election...
and have responded to claims tying them to through a mix of forceful public denials, targeted legal action against media outlets and individuals who propagated the claims, and demands for retractions ...
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 ...
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....