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Read Replies (1) | Respond to THE PROPAGANDA AT THE END OF PIRRO'S SHOW IS RELATED TO THE THREAT OF LAWSUIT BY SMARTMATIC. ====================================================== Lou Dobbs airs fact check of own election claims about Smartmatic after legal threat washingtonexaminer.com Smartmatic threatened Fox News , along with Newsmax and OANN, with legal action this week for what it claims was a "disinformation campaign" that has cost the company "hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars." It is my understanding that an executive at Smartmatic has some sort of relationship with one of Soros's foundations. ============================================ en.wikipedia.org Sequoia Voting Systems , one of the leading US companies in automated voting products [110] [111] from the British company De La Rue in 2005. [101] Following this acquisition, U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney requested an investigation to determine whether the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) had followed correct processes to green-light sale of Sequoia to Smartmatic, which was described as having "possible ties to the Venezuelan government". [112] The request was made after a March 2006 following issues in Chicago and Cook County, where a percentage of the machines involved were manufactured by Sequoia, and Sequoia provided technical assistance, some by a number of Venezuelan nationals flown in for the event. [113] According to Sequoia, the tabulation problems were due to human error, as a post-election check identified only three mechanical problems in 1,000 machines checked [113] while election officials blamed poor training. [114] Other issues were suspected to be related to software errors linked to the voting system's central computer. [115] [116] The company disclosed that it was owned by Antonio Mugica (78.8%), Alfredo Anzola (3.87%), Roger Pinate (8.47%), Jorge Massa Dustou (5.97%) and employees (2.89%). [117] Smartmatic subsequently sold Sequoia and later withdrew from Cook County in December 2006. [118] The Wall Street Journal wrote that "Smartmatic scrapped a simple corporate structure" of being based in Boca Raton "for a far more complex arrangement" of being located in multiple locations following the Sequoia incident. [118] Though Smartmatic has made differing statements saying that they were either American or Dutch based, the United States Department of State stated that its Venezuelan owners "remain hidden behind a web of holding companies in the Netherlands and Barbados". [10] [3] The New York Times states that "the role of the young Venezuelan engineers who founded Smartmatic has become less visible" and that its organization is "an elaborate web of offshore companies and foreign trusts", [115] while BBC News states that though Smartmatic says the company was founded in the United States, "its roots are firmly anchored in (Venezuela)". [3] Multiple sources simply state that Smartmatic is a Venezuelan company. [119] Smartmatic maintains that the holding companies in multiple countries are used for " tax efficiency ". [120]
