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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartmatic
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Smartmatic (also referred as Smartmatic Corp. or Smartmatic International) is a multinational company that specializes in building and implementing electronic voting systems. The company also produces smart cities solutions[buzzword] (including public safety and public transportation), identity management systems for civil registration and authentication products for government applications.
History
Founding
In 1997,[4] three engineers, Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola and Roger Piñate, began collaborating in a group while working at Panagroup Corp. in Caracas, Venezuela.[5][6][7][8][9] Following the 2000 United States presidential election and its hanging chad controversy in Florida, the group proposed to dedicate a system toward electoral functions.[9][10] Smartmatic was officially incorporated on 11 April 2000 in Delaware by Alfredo José Anzola.[11][12][13] Smartmatic then established its headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida with seven employees.[7][8] After receiving funds from private investors,[7] the company then began to expand.
SGO Corporation
Lord Malloch Brown
In 2014, Smartmatic’s CEO Antonio Mugica and British Lord Mark Malloch-Brown announced the launching of the SGO Corporation Limited,[14][15] a holding company based in London whose primary asset is the election technology and voting machine manufacturer. Lord Malloch-Brown became chairman of the board of directors of SGO since its foundation,[16] while Antonio Mugica remained as CEO of the new venture. They were joined on SGO’s board by Sir Nigel Knowles, Global CEO of DLA Piper, entrepreneur David Giampaolo and Roger Piñate, Smartmatic’s COO and co-founder.
The aim of SGO, according to its CEO was "to continue to make investments in its core business (election technology), but it is also set to roll out a series of new ventures based on biometrics, online identity verification, internet voting and citizen participation, e-governance and pollution control.”[17]
Elections
The company was contracted in 2004 for the automation of electoral processes in Venezuela. Since 2004, its election technology has been used in local and national elections in Africa,[18] Argentina,[19] Belgium,[20] Brazil,[21] Chile,[22] Ecuador,[23] Italy[24] Mexico,[25] the Philippines,[26] Singapore,[27] the United Kingdom,[28] the United States[29] and Venezuela.[30]
Africa
Smartmatic has operated in Uganda, Zambia and is still deploying an identity management project in Sierra Leone. In 2010, Smartmatic has worked with the United Nations Development Programme and Zambian authorities to modernize the voter registry using biometric technology. In 2016, they maintained the voter registry ahead of the elections. Smartmatic also assisted the Electoral Commission of Uganda to modernize its election processes to increase the transparency of the 2016 General Elections.[31] The polling company supplied over 30,000 biometric machines across 28,010 polling stations, from the capital of Kampala to remote rural communities to verify the identity of over 15 million people.[18]
Armenia
During the 2017 Armenian parliamentary election, a voter authentication system was used for the first time. The identity of the voter was validated prior to voting using Voter Authentication Devices (VADs), which contained an electronic copy of the voter lists.[32] The introduction of new technologies in the electoral process was strongly supported by the opposition and civil society.[33] Smartmatic provided 4,000 Voter Authentication Devices to the UNDP project “Support to the Electoral Process in Armenia” (SEPA).[34] It was funded by the EU, United States, Germany, United Kingdom, and the Government of Armenia.[35][36]
According to final reports from The International Elections Observation Missions (IEOM) “The VADs functioned effectively and without significant issues.”[33] Observers reported the introduction of the VADs was welcomed by most IEOM interlocutors as a useful tool for building confidence in the integrity of Election Day proceedings.[32] Observers also mentioned in the final report that the late introduction of the VADs could have led to a limited time for testing of equipment and training of operators, stating "Observers noted some problems with scanning of ID documents and fingerprints; however, this did not lead to significant disruptions of voting. IEOM observers noted 9 cases of voters attempting multiple voting that were captured by the VADs. The VADs provided the possibility for voters to be redirected, in case they were registered in another polling station in the same TEC, and this was observed in 55 polling stations."[37]
Belgium
Electronic voting in Belgium has been utilized since the 1991 Belgian general election, with the country being only one of the few European countries that use electronic voting.[38] In 2012, Belgium approved a ten-year contract with Smartmatic to be the election technology supplier after an evaluation period of three years.[39] In an evaluation by constitutional law researcher Carlos Vegas González, he stated that the printout ballot increased transparency and noted that Smartmatic's system was independently certified by PricewaterhouseCoopers.[40]
Brazil
Smartmatic provided election technology services to Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) for the Brazilian Municipal Elections, 2012,[21] Brazilian General Election, 2014[41] and Brazilian Municipal Elections, 2016 cycles.
In October 2012, Smartmatic provided election support for data and voice communications to 16 states in Brazil, and the Federal District (FD) (deploying 1,300 Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) satellite devices), as well as support services to voting machines. These services implied hiring and training 14,000 technicians who worked at 480,000 polling stations.[42] In 2014, the Brazilian electoral commission relied on an increased number of BGAN terminals, deployed by Smartmatic, to enable results transmission.[43] BGAN satellite broadband voice and data service was used to connect voting stations to the nation’s electronic voting system.[44][45]
Estonia
In 2014, Smartmatic and Cybernetica, the Estonian IT lab that built the original Internet voting system used in the country, co-founded the Centre of Excellence for Internet voting. The Centre is working with the government of Estonia to advance Internet voting on a global scale.[46][47][48]
Estonia is the only country to run Internet voting on a wide scale,[49][50] where citizens can access services through their eID card. The e-voting system, the largest run by any European Union country,[51] was first introduced in 2005 for local elections, and was subsequently used in the 2007, 2011 and 2015 parliamentary elections, with the proportion of voters using this voting method rising from 5.5 per cent to 24.3 per cent to 30.5 per cent respectively.[52][53][54]
Some experts have warned that Estonia's online voting system might be vulnerable to hacking.[55] In 2014, J. Alex Halderman, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, and his group, described as being "harshly critical of electronic voting systems around the world", reviewed Estonia's voting system.[56] Halderman described the Estonian "i-voting" system as "pretty primitive by modern standards … I got to observe the processes that they went through, and there were just—it was just quite sloppy throughout the whole time".[57] A security analysis of the system by the University of Michigan and the Open Rights Group that was led by Halderman found that "the I-voting system has serious architectural limitations and procedural gaps that potentially jeopardize the integrity of elections".[58] The analysis concluded:[58]
As we have observed, the procedures Estonia has in place to guard against attack and ensure transparency offer insufficient protection. Based on our tests, we conclude that a state-level attacker, sophisticated criminal, or dishonest insider could defeat both the technological and procedural controls in order to manipulate election outcomes. … Due to these risks, we recommend that Estonia discontinue use of the I-voting system.
The Estonian National Electoral Committee responded to the report, stating that the claims "were unsubstantiated and the described attacks infeasible."[59] Before each election, the system is rebuilt from the ground up, and security testing including penetration testing and denial-of-service mitigation tests are carried out. In their statement, the Estonian National Electoral Committee says: “every aspect of online balloting procedures is fully documented, these procedures are rigorously audited, and video documenting all conducted procedures is posted online. In addition to opening every aspect of our balloting to observers, we have posted the source code of our voting software online. In the past decade, our online balloting has stood up to numerous reviews and security tests. We believe that online balloting allows us to achieve a level of security greater than what is possible with paper ballots”.[59]
Following the criticism, the number of Estonian e-voters at the 2015 Parliamentary Election was a record-breaking 176,491 (30.5% of votes cast).[53][60]
Philippines
The adoption of Smartmatic was overseen by the Carter Center.[61] Since its incorporation, random audits performed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) resulted in an accuracy rate over 99.5% in all elections where Smartmatic equipment was utilized.[62]
Smartmatic's entry into the Philippines was controversial. Several groups which were benefiting from the traditionally fraudulent conduct of Philippines polls[63] found themselves facing great political and economic loss with the promised transparency and audit-ability of the automated elections system. The Manila Times stating that "only the truly uninformed would still find Smartmatic’s combination of PCOS/VCM and CCS an acceptable solution to the automation of Philippine elections" and that "glitches" as well as the "lack of transparency … convinced us of the system’s unreliability and its vulnerability to tampering".[64] Others supported Smartmatic's entry into the nation, with one group, the Concerned Citizens Movement, praising the company's performance after initially requesting Comelec to not use Smartmatic's systems.[65]
2008 Philippine regional elections
On August 11, 2008, automated regional elections were held in the Philippines' Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). In the Maguindanao province, voters used Smartmatic's electronic voting machines,[66] while voters in the other 5 provinces (Shariff Kabunsuan, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi) used manually marked ballots processed using OMR technology. The overall reaction of both the public and authorities was positive toward the process.[67][68]
2010 Philippine general election
Main article: 2010 Philippine general election
In May 2010, Smartmatic automated the National Elections in the Republic of the Philippines. Election Day was Monday, May 10, 2010 with live, full coverage from ABS-CBN, ANC and GMA Network. The elected president became the 15th President of the Philippines, succeeding President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who was barred from seeking re-election due to term restrictions. The successor of the Vice-President Noli de Castro is the 15th Vice President of the Philippines. Legislators elected in these 2010 elections joined the senators of the 2007 elections to constitute the 15th Congress of the Philippines.[citation needed]
A survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed that 75% of Filipinos questioned were satisfied with the conduct of the automated elections. The survey also showed that 70% of respondents were satisfied with Smartmatic.[69]
2013 Philippine midterm elections
On 13 May 2013, halfway between its last Presidential elections in 2010 and its next in 2016, the Philippines held its midterm elections where 18,000 positions were at stake.[70] Smartmatic again provided technology and services to Comelec. The same 82,000 voting machines used in 2010 were deployed.[71]
Election watchdog National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel), which is one of the Comelec's official citizen's arm for the midterm elections, assessed the polls as "generally peaceful and organized."[72] The Philippine National Police considered the 2013 the most peaceful elections in the history of the country.[73] The US Embassy commended the Filipinos for the elections.[74]
2016 Philippine presidential election
Main article: 2016 Philippine presidential election
For the country's third national automated elections in the 2016 Philippine presidential election, which was held on May 9, 2016, a total of 92,509 vote-counting machines (VCMs) were deployed across an archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, while 5,500 VCMs served as back-up voting machines. For Overseas Absentee Voting Act (OAV), 130 VCMs were deployed in 18 countries.[75]
There were major challenges faced prior to elections, chief of which was the late-stage Supreme Court ruling that required each voting machine to print a receipt.[76] The ruling was handed down on March 17, 2016, giving Comelec and Smartmatic less than two months to prepare. By election night, about 86% of election data had already been transmitted, prompting winners in local municipalities to be proclaimed in real-time.[18] Also by election night, Filipinos already knew who the winning president was, leading other candidates to concede within 24 hours. This concession of several candidates signified acceptance of results that validated the credibility of the automation system. Over 20,000 candidates conceded.[77]
Rodrigo Duterte became the 16th President of the Philippines, succeeding Benigno Aquino III, while the 16th Vice-President succeeded Jejomar Binay. Legislators elected in the 2016 elections joined the senators elected in the 2013 midterm elections to constitute the 16th Congress of the Philippines.
2019 Philippine Senate election
Main article: 2019 Philippine Senate election
During the 2019 Philippine Senate election, Smartmatic was minimally involved in the election and was only available for technical assistance. The majority of electoral functions were performed by Comelec after it purchased Smartmatic's voting machines following the 2016 elections.[78]
Singapore
Main article: 2020 Singaporean general election
From the 2020 general election onwards, Smartmatic was used for the electronic registration of voters at polling stations on polling day, replacing the need for election officials to manually strike out each voter's particulars from a hardcopy register of electors when a voter has voted.[27]
United States
2016 Utah republican presidential primaries
In the 2016 Utah Republican caucus, where Utah Republicans voted to choose the party’s nominee for president in the 2016 US Presidential election, the voters had the opportunity to vote using traditional methods or to vote online. For online voting, the Utah Republican Party used an internet voting system developed by the Smartmatic-Cybernetica Internet Voting Centre of Excellence, based in Estonia.[29][79]
Despite warnings from security experts,[80] Utah GOP officials billed the online voting system, for which the state paid $150,000. Multiple issues occurred with the system, with voters receiving error messages and even being blocked from voting. Smartmatic received thousands of calls from Utah voters surrounding issues with the process. The Washington Post states that "the concern seems to be less with the technology and more with the security of the devices people use to vote".[81]
According to Joe Kiniry, the lead researcher of Galois, a technology research firm:[57]
Several of us did a lightweight analysis of it remotely, to see how it was built and deployed and this sort of thing … we found that they were using technologies that even modern Web programmers stay away from. … It’s like the dumbest possible choices are being made by some of these companies with respect to deployed technology that should be mission-critical!
Responses from voters, who participated in the caucus from more than 45 different countries, was positive. 94% approved of the experience, 97% responded that they were interested in participating in future online elections and 82% thought online voting should be used nationally.[82]
Los Angeles county
Los Angeles County, which has about 5 million registered voters, began searching for a new electoral system in 2009, after the county determined that available systems at the time were not suitable.[83] The Voting System Assessment Project (VSAP) was initiated to establish a publicly owned voting system, and to provide research of electoral methods for other voting jurisdictions interested in replicating the process.[83]
In 2017, Los Angeles County signed a $282 million contract with Smartmatic to create an election system to be used for future elections[84][85], and became the first publicly-owned voting system in the United States.[86] The system will be used for the first time during the 2020 California Democratic primary.[84][85] Both software and hardware were developed in the United States by Smartmatic, while ownership of all products and intellectual properties were then given to Los Angeles County.[84] The machines developed incorporate an interactive ballot that is printed by each voter to validate results, and then deposited back into voting machines.[86][87] According to VSAP, interest in the voting system was expressed by other districts in the United States and internationally.[86]
Venezuela
Main article: Elections in Venezuela
Smartmatic was the main technology supplier for fourteen Venezuelan national elections. In March 2018, Smartmatic ceased operations in Venezuela.[88]
2004 Venezuela recall referendum
Main article: 2004 Venezuelan recall referendum
Venezuela's previously existing laws that were established before Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution stated that automated voting was required in Venezuela, with United States firm Election Systems & Software and Spanish company Indra Sistemas already being used in the country.[9] In response to a bid process for the 2004 Venezuela recall election initiated by the National Electoral Council (CNE), Venezuela's electoral authority, the SBC Consortium was formed in the third quarter of 2003. The SBC Consortium comprised Smartmatic, Bizta, and telecommunications organization CANTV.[7][9] For the 2004 elections, the SBC Consortium competed with Indra and other companies, ultimately winning the contract[89] and being awarded $128 million, with Smartmatic retrofitting gambling machines to be used for the process.[9][90] During the election, Smartmatic operated the voting machines, Bizta sent manual votes in remote areas to software centers and CANTV provided logistical assistance.[91]
Smartmatic's headquarters moved to London in 2012,[3] while it also has offices and R&D labs in the United States, Brazil, Venezuela, Barbados, Panama, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Estonia, and Taiwan.[92]
2012 Venezuelan presidential election
In October 2012, Smartmatic participated in the elections of 3 countries. In Venezuela, October 7, for the first time in the world, national elections were carried out with biometric voter authentication to activate the voting machines. Out of 18,903,143 citizens registered to vote in the presidential elections, voter turnout was around 81%, both record figures in Venezuelan electoral history.[citation needed]
2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election
Main article: 2017 Venezuelan Constitutional Assembly election
Smartmatic stated that the results of the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election were manipulated. On August 2 of 2017, Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mugica stated on a press briefing in London "We know, without a doubt, that the result of the recent elections for a National Constituent Assembly were manipulated," and added "We estimate that the difference between actual and announced participation by the authorities is at least one million votes." [93] The company said that the turnout was off by at least one million votes.[94] Reuters also reported that according to internal CNE documents leaked to the agency, only 3,720,465 votes were cast thirty minutes before polls were expected to close, though polls were open for an additional hour.[95] The company later left Venezuela in 2018.[88]
Other endeavors
Automation
In 2011, The District of Cartagena in Colombia selected Smartmatic as technology provider for the new Financial Administration Service of the Integrated Mass Transit System (Transcaribe), which operates based on a highly automated fare collection and fleet control system.[96]
Identification
Smartmatic was chosen to develop Mexico's new ID card in 2009, with the process involving the biometric registration of over 100 million people.[97] Bolivia also used Smartmatic's biometric capabilities with the registration of 5.2 million people for electoral systems.[98]
Security
Smartmatic launched its banking security endeavor in 2002 utilizing its Smartnet system, which it described as "one of the earliest platforms to enable the 'Internet of Things'".[10] The company began providing security technology and surveillance equipment for Santander-Serfin Bank in Mexico at their bank branches in 2004.[97] Since 2006, the Office of the Mayor of Metropolitan Caracas in Venezuela began the installation of the integrated public security system that helps authorities to provide immediate response to citizens whose safety has been jeopardized.[citation needed]
Controversy
Ownership
Following the 2004 Venezuelan recall election, Smartmatic acquired Sequoia Voting Systems, one of the leading US companies in automated voting products[99][100] from the British company De La Rue in 2005.[90] 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".[101] 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.[102] 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[102] while election officials blamed poor training.[103] Other issues were suspected to be related to software errors linked to the voting system's central computer.[104]
Following the request, Smartmatic and Sequoia submitted a request to be reviewed by the CFIUS while also denying links to the Venezuelan government.[105] 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%).[106] Smartmatic subsequently sold Sequoia and later withdrew from Cook County in December 2006.[107]
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.[107] 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".[9][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",[104] 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.[108] Smartmatic maintains that the holding companies in multiple countries are used for "tax efficiency".[109]
Philippines
Smartmatic has been criticized by various entities for its motives and handling of elections in the Philippines.[64][110] In opinion polls, voters have approved of Smartmatic's automated system used by Comelec, with 84% of respondents stating that they had "big trust" in the automated process according to a June 2019 Pulse Asia Research poll.[111]
The Manila Times has stated that Smartmatic's system was unreliable, glitchy and vulnerable to tampering.[64] After the newspaper reported that Smartmatic had been funneling voter information through "unofficial servers",[112] The Manila Times ultimately called on officials from the country's electoral body, Comelec, to resign.[113] William Yu of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting, an election NGO, stated that such servers perform "many other activities before the elections" and that it "does not necessarily, automatically mean that data has been transmitted", though he requested that Comelec and Smartmatic provide an explanation.[114]
In early 2017, The Manila Times reported that Smartmatic machines were equipped with SD cards where voter entries are recorded, citing Glenn Chong, a former congressman of the NGO Tanggulang Demokrasya (TANDEM) stating that "at least one SD card was tampered with", allegedly showing that Smartmatic's system was "very much open to hijacking or sabotage".[115] A reviewer of the Philippine Linux Users’ Group stated that hacking into Smartmatic's system is "very difficult for outsiders" and that "it’s not as difficult to hack into the system if you’re a Comelec or a group of Comelec or Smartmatic personnel", expressing importance of monitoring by Comelec and asking the public to have good faith in the electoral body.[116]
The IBON Foundation, a non-profit research organization based in the Philippines also criticized Smartmatic's system, stating in 2016 that "Why Smartmatic keeps on winning Comelec contracts boggles the mind especially considering the numerous and major malfunctions by the machines and services that Smartmatic provided in the past two elections" and that there were "allegations of rigged bidding to favor Smartmatic such as designing contracts where only Smartmatic can qualify or omitting requirements that will otherwise disqualify Smartmatic".[110]
2010 elections
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video icon Heated exchange between Teodoro Locsin Jr. and a Smartmatic representative over fraud allegations on YouTube
Prior to the elections, Filipino-Americans called on President Barack Obama to investigate the background of Smartmatic prior to the elections due to its links to the Venezuelan government. Smartmatic described these actions as "trying to rehash a story based on market share".[117] Following allegations of fraud, some employees of Smartmatic had their passports temporarily held.[118] At a fraud inquiry on May 20, 2010, Heider Garcia of Smartmatic was questioned on the transparency and what he called "unforeseen" occurrences during the election process, with Philippine official Teodoro Locsin Jr. – an automated poll advocate – sharply rebuking Garcia.[118] On June 29, 2010, the Philippine Computer Society (PCS) filed a complaint with the country's Ombudsman against 17 officials of the Commission on Elections and the Smartmatic-TIM Corp. for alleged “incompetence,” graft and unethical conduct.[119]
2016 elections
Days after the May 2016 elections, Bongbong Marcos, son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, alleged that Smartmatic had tampered with the votes which cost him being elected Vice President of the Philippines and criminal proceedings were filed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) against Comelec personnel as well as Smartmatic employees, with Election Commissioner Rowena Guanzon stating that Smartmatic had violated protocols.[120] After a Smartmatic employee fled the country, Bongbong Marcos accused the Comelec for his "escape", though two other Smartmatic personnel, one from Venezuela and the other from Israel, were present for criminal proceedings.[121] In July 2016, it was reported that Smartmatic funneled votes through "unofficial servers".[112] In an October 2016 editorial, The Manila Times called on all members of Comelec to resign due to the "innumerable controversies since its adoption of the Smartmatic-based Automated Election System".[113]
On June 7, 2017, the Philippine Department of Justice indicted "several Smartmatic and Comelec personnel for changing the script in the election transparency server on election night during the May 2016 national and local polls". Those charged with the tampering include Marlon Garcia, the head of the Smartmatic's Technical Support Team, as well as tow other Smartmatic employees, Neil Baniqued and Mauricio Herrera, and Comelec IT employeesl Rouie Peñalba, Nelson Herrera, and Frances Mae Gonzales. The six were charged with "illegal access, data interference, and system interference" under the Cybercrime Prevention Act.[122]
In August 2017, it was revealed that Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista was allegedly paid commissions by Divina Law while serving as chairman "for assisting the law firm clients with the Comelec". Divina Law, a firm that provides legal advice to Smartmatic. Bautista admitted that he obtained "referral fees", but denied that it was due to his position in Comelec. According to House Deputy Minority Leader Harry Roque, the incident is "a very clear case of bribery" by Smartmatic.[123]
Venezuela
2004 elections
After the presidential recall referendum of 2004 in Venezuela, some controversy was raised about the use of electronic voting (SAES voting machines) in that country. Studies following the 2004 Venezuela recall elections found that Smartmatic's network was "bi-directional" with data being able to be transferred both ways between Smartmatic devices and the telecommunications company CANTV, with alleged irregularities found between the Smartmatic and Venezuela's National Electoral Council election results.[9][124] Other independent election monitors claimed fraud and submitted appeals, and statistical evaluations including a peer-reviewed article in 2006[125] and a special section of 6-peer-reviewed article in 2011[126] concluded that it was likely that electronic election fraud had been committed. The analysis of communication patterns allowed for the hypothesis that the data in the machines could have been changed remotely, while another of the articles suggested that the outcome could have been altered from about 60% against the sitting president, to 58% for the sitting president.
Representatives from international election observation agencies attested that the election conducted using SAES was at that time fair, accurate and compliant with the accepted timing and reliability criteria. These agencies included the Carter Center,[127] the Organization of American States (OAS),[128] and the European Union (EU).[129][130][131][132][133] Jennifer McCoy, Carter Center Director for the Americas, stated that several audits validated the accuracy of the machines. “We found a variation of only 0.1% between the paper receipts and the electronic results. This could be explained by voters putting the slips in the wrong ballot box”.[134][135]
Dr. Tulio Alvarez, who had performed an independent observation of the election which detailed the networks between CNE and Smartmatic, described the Carter Center's findings as "insufficient, superficial and irresponsible".[136]
2005 elections
Prior to the 2005 Venezuela parliamentary election, one technician could work around "the machine's allegedly random storage protocols" and remove voting secrecy. Since the voting systems were Windows based and only randomized data, the technician was able to download a simple software that could place Windows files in order. Following this revelation, voter turnout dropped substantially with only 25% of registered Venezuelans voting and opposition parties withdrawing from the election. This resulted in Hugo Chávez's party, as well as his allied parties, to control 100% of Venezuela's National Assembly.[9]
Alleged affiliations with government
Affiliations with Bolivarian government politicians raised suspicions, with instances of an interior vice minister, Morris Loyo Arnáez, being hired to lobby for Smartmatic contracts and with the company paying for the National Electoral Council (CNE) president Jorge Rodríguez and his sister Delcy Rodríguez to stay at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton, Florida.[9][90][137] Vice Minister Loyo was paid $1.5 million by Smartmatic as a "sales commission" and his continual payments with the company eventually doubled.[90]
A lawyer who had worked with Rodríguez, Moisés Maiónica, was allegedly employed by Smartmatic in order to provide legal and financial assistance to help with its selection for its 2004 elections.[138][139] Years after the election in December 2008, Maiónica pled guilty in the United States District Court for attempting to cover up Maletinazo scandal, an incident where Hugo Chávez attempted to finance Cristina Kirchner's 2007 Argentine Presidential Election campaign to influence Argentina's presidential election, with Maiónica stating that he was working for Venezuela's spy agency, the National Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services.[138][140] Smartmatic has denied ever having a relationship with Maiónica.[141]
MOTHER FUCKING BOOM
SOROS CONNECTS TO SMARTMATICS WHICH IS THE PARENT COMPANY OF DOMINION
https://archive.is/PN60B
https://apnews.com/article/8607371032
CLAIM: Billionaire philanthropist George Soros owns Smartmatic voting machines. Don’t throw your vote away if you live in a state that uses them. Ask for a paper ballot. Under federal law the polling place must provide one.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Soros, who donates to liberal political causes, does not own Smartmatic, a company that specializes in voting technology.
THE FACTS: A post circulating on Facebook featuring a photo of Soros and titled “Defeat Election Fraud” falsely claims he owns the company and names 16 states as places that use them. Three of the states _ Michigan, Missouri and Washington _ were conducting primaries on Tuesday. Similar false claims have circulated previously with posts dating as far back as 2016.
Michigan has three voting system vendors approved for the state, which are Dominion Voting Systems, Election Systems and Software and Hart InterCivic.
Samira Saba, a spokeswoman for Smartmatic, told The Associated Press in an email that Los Angeles County is currently the company’s only client in the U.S.
CLAIM: Billionaire philanthropist George Soros owns Smartmatic voting machines. Don’t throw your vote away if you live in a state that uses them. Ask for a paper ballot. Under federal law the polling place must provide one.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Soros, who donates to liberal political causes, does not own Smartmatic, a company that specializes in voting technology.
THE FACTS: A post circulating on Facebook featuring a photo of Soros and titled “Defeat Election Fraud” falsely claims he owns the company and names 16 states as places that use them. Three of the states _ Michigan, Missouri and Washington _ were conducting primaries on Tuesday. Similar false claims have circulated previously with posts dating as far back as 2016.
Michigan has three voting system vendors approved for the state, which are Dominion Voting Systems, Election Systems and Software and Hart InterCivic.
Samira Saba, a spokeswoman for Smartmatic, told The Associated Press in an email that Los Angeles County is currently the company’s only client in the U.S.
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While the chairman of SmartMatics and the SGO Group, Mark Malloch-Brown, serves on the Open Society Foundations Global Board founded by George Soros SmartMatics is not owned by Soros himself, despite what the post circulating widely on social media suggested.
“Defeat election fraud! On election day, if your voting machine is a SmartMatic brand, Demand a paper ballot. George Soro’s now owns SmartMatic. You have the right to require a paper ballot, and under Federal Law the polling place must provide one for you. Don’t throw your vote away,” the post stated.
The company’s website, smartmatic.com, noted that “George Soros does not have and has never had any ownership stake in Smartmatic.”
Smartmatic took part in its first U.S. election during the 2005-2006 election cycle where it offered its services to 16 states, according to their website.
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George Soros is the subject of one of the more misguided conspiracy theories of the election
https://www.businessinsider.com/george-soros-connection-to-voting-machines-2016-10
Last week, political blogs started reporting about concerns that billionaire George Soros owned a company that manufactures voting machines used in 16 states, including swing states like Florida and Arizona.
Amid claims by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that this year's election might be "rigged," some people took this as concrete evidence that Soros, a supporter of Hillary Clinton, would be rigging the voting machines to ensure a Democratic victory.
In fact, one person even petitioned Congress to have an emergency session to discuss the voting machines. Almost 57,000 people have signed the petition.
Here's the problem: Soros does not own the company in question. Also, the Smartmatic voting machines are not even going to be used in this year's election.
Smartmatic is owned by Lord Mark Malloch-Brown. He is connected to Soros through the Open Society Foundation, an organization that gives grants to civil society organizations around the world. Malloch-Brown serves on the Open Society Global Board. Smartmatic says on its website, "George Soros does not have and has never had any ownership stake in Smartmatic."
And while the company did have voting machines in Los Angeles and Utah during the primary elections, they will not be used on November 8.
Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Malloch_Brown,_Baron_Malloch-Brown
Association with George Soros
Malloch Brown has been closely associated with billionaire speculator George Soros. Working for Refugees International, he was part of the Soros Advisory Committee on Bosnia in 1993–94, formed by Soros. He has since kept cordial relations with Soros, and rented an apartment owned by Soros while working in New York on UN assignments.[51] While serving as United Nations Development Programme Administrator, Malloch Brown spoke beside Soros in 2002 suggesting that United Nations and Soros's Open Society Institute, as well as other organizations, work together to fund humanitarian functions.[52]
In May 2007, Soros's Quantum Fund announced the appointment of Malloch Brown as vice-president.[53] In September 2007, The Observer reported that he had resigned this position on becoming a government minister in the UK.[54] Also in May 2007, Malloch Brown was named vice-chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute, two other important Soros organisations.[55]
In 2013 Malloch Brown and FTI Consulting came to a legal settlement with Israeli mining billionaire Beny Steinmetz, who had sued them claiming Malloch Brown had given confidential information to Soros which led to a smear campaign against Steinmetz's mining company. The out-of-court settlement of €90,000 plus costs was without any determination of liability.[56]
Malloch Brown is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Crisis Group,[57] and played a key role in its foundation in 1993–5. In July 2014 he became Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees.[58]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Mugica
Antonio Mugica
Career
In the late 1990s, Mugica along with two other Venezuelan colleagues, Alfredo José Anzola and Roger Pinate, created a system where thousands of inputs could be placed into a network simultaneously. Early trials of this system were used on ATMs in Mexico, though after the 2000 United States presidential election, they decided instead to dedicate the system toward electoral functions.[2]
Mugica has been an advocate for electronic and internet voting,[3] election modernization,[4] and digital democracy.[5] Some of his views to bring in technological advancement in elections include: the need to create tools for engaging citizens through voting and participation in the governance process,[6] making voting more accessible,[7] making sure that comprehensive pre- and post-election audits become a common practice,[8] and the significance of investing in research and development in the election technology market.[9][10]
Smartmatic
Smartmatic formed out of the SBC organization that was owned 51% by Smartmatic, 47% Venezuelan state telecommunications organization CANTV and 2% by an affiliated company, Bizta, also owned by the owners of Smartmatic, with a board member from the Bolivarian government during the time an industry-fostering loan from a government institution was in force. In 2004 Smartmatic was granted a contract worth $128 million with the CNE, the government's elections agency, to acquire its products (an automated voting system, voting machines and support services) for the Regional Elections scheduled for that year's 2nd semester. But then, after collecting the required number of citizens' signatures, the 2004 Venezuelan recall referendum was activated to remove Hugo Chávez from the presidency, and Smartmatic had to hastily tailor the Voting System to the changed requirements.
Smartmatic's election technology has been used in local and national elections in Venezuela, the United States, Belgium, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Estonia[11] and the Philippines.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2016/10/george-soros-linked-company-supplying-ballot-machines-to-16-states/
George Soros Linked Company Supplying Ballot Machines To 16 States
Critics on the right are growing concerned as more information comes to light about a U.K. based company with ties to George Soros that is supplying the U.S. with voting machines for the upcoming election. Smartmatic, whose Chairman sits on the board of Soros’ Open Society Foundation, is believed to be contributing over 50,000 voting machines to 16 states for the November election. Skeptics are concerned about possible meddling in the election process as Soros’ tight connection with the Clintons and other high profile Democratic leaders continues to be revealed by Wikileaks with the emails shared from John Podesta’s hacked gmail account.
Smartmatic is a privately held Venezuelan tech and electronic voting company headquartered in London. A flow chart on Smartmatic’s website showed how the company contributed machines to the United States for elections between 2006 and 2015 with “57,000 voting and counting machines deployed” and “35 million voters assisted.”
Since news broke that their machines would be used in the upcoming 2016 Presidential election, the company removed the flow chart and released a statement saying that “Smartmatic will not be deploying its technology in any U.S. county for the upcoming 2016 U.S. Presidential elections.”
The company also stated on its website that “Smartmatic has no ties to political parties or groups in any country and abides by a stringent code of ethics that forbids the company to ever donate to any political campaigns of any kind.” They also added in bold that “George Soros does not have and has never had any ownership stake in Smartmatic.”'
A spokesperson for the National Association of Secretaries of State told Lifezette that “Smartmatic is not on a list of federally-certified providers for election systems” and that “officials in several states’ have contested that their equipment came from Smartmatic.”
Mark Malloch-Brown
=Mark Malloch-Brown
Smartmatic Chairman Mark Malloch-Brown is a former U.N. official and current board member of the Open Society Foundation. The Open Society Foundation is a grantmaking network which financially supports civil society groups around the world and aims to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. Since its founding, the Foundation has reported expenditures of over $11 billion dollars.
Soros’ ties to the Democrats worry skeptics that believe the multibillionaire is using his money to influence American politics. Just last week, emails between Podesta and Soros’ top people were leaked to show the two sides colluding on SCOTUS picks shortly after Justice Scalia died. George Soros also had his personal information, including his private cell phone number, exposed through the John Podesta Wikileaks emails.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/smartmatic-sgo-malloch-brown-soros-operative-buys-election-cj-wilson/
Soros operative buys an Election Firm: Smartmatic, SGO, Malloch-Brown
[Editor’s Note: For those that read my blogs this pertains to the election technology industry. If that isn’t your bag, find something else of mine to read.]
Smartmatic, the troubled Venezuelan-linked voting company recent partnered up (late 2014) with a firm called SGO. SGO is headed up by one Lord Mark Malloch-Brown. Brown, as it turns out, is a rather curious and troubling figure. Brown, you should know, has close ties to George Soros and rents a Soros owned house in New York. Brown gets a sweetheart deal at only $10,000 a month. He also serves as the VP of Soros’ hedge fund the Quantum Fund.
Lord Brown definitely has had a high flying career in international circles. But it turns out he is another left-wing utopian schemer that naively believes that, for example, we can END world poverty. Good luck with that—let me know how that’s working out for you. What’s infuriating about people like Brown is their insistence that they simply want “to change the world.” But they never EVER ask themselves if the world wants to be changed. And what if it doesn’t? Well, for folks like Brown the answer is “tough—we’ll change it anyway.” It’s how high minded utopianism always descends to brutal totalitarianism. It’s a sad and unwise outcome from a bunch of “smart” people.
A quick look at the SGO website reveals this mindset. They claim they will focus on four main THEMES. They are Democracy (and citizen participation), Governance, Identity and Privacy, and Climate and Clean Air. The site promises that in a few months they will launch a “series of ventures” related to those themes. Thankfully, nothing concrete has been forthcoming since the publishing of the website six months ago.
It must be a wonderful thing to wake up and believe that today is the day you will make the world safe for democracy and lower the temperature of the planet. That’s a tall order. Nothing like working on something realistic! The only trouble is that so far Smartmatic has done nothing but be controversial everywhere it conducts elections. Don’t trust me on that, just Google it. If that’s the best you can do on one or two of your themes, I can only imagine what your climate solutions will be—say, burn the rainforest to lower the earth’s temperature?!
You had better bet there is dark side to each of these themes. I’ll leave you that to work out, but here’s a guess: it’s all about rigging elections, increasing the size of government, advocating for world-governance, using biometrics to track the movements and activities of people and destroying capitalism in the name of saving the planet. Not my cup of tea, but don’t think for a moment that they aren’t millions that are enamored of this view, and a select few actually are working on all those items, and that includes SGO and Mr. Brown.
This may leave you wondering why I would write about this cast of characters in the first place. It turns out that Mr. Brown’s involvement in Smartmatic is a bit odd on a technical level. After all, Anoto, the Swedish developer of digital pens, has an EXCLUSIVE agreement that allow only Smartmatic to use their pens in any election related activity (voting, registration, etc.). The beauty of the digital pen for voting is that it actually retains the paper ballot and makes it hard to rig the system. But Malloch-Brown’s big push is for Internet voting. Internet voting does not have anything to do with a person marking a paper ballot in a voting booth. So if Malloch-Brown controls the Smartmatic purse strings I would not imagine they would ever develop a digital pen based voting system.
In fact, it’s been over two years since Smartmatic got in bed with Anoto. To this date they have developed only one trivial application. It’s so trivial that any firm that uses digital pens could duplicate the same product (except Anoto wouldn’t allow it). There is no voting system, no registration system—NOTHING. It’s like they bought into it and then went silent.
It’s also baffling that Anoto would sign an exclusive agreement with Smartmatic knowing that Smartmatic will NEVER be allowed to conduct elections (or election-related activities) in the US. That’s a multi-billion dollar market they are willing to simply write off for no reason. Now it is possible that Smartmatic, through some front group, will try to sneak back into the US marketplace, but that would end really badly for them—really badly. But US election officials and government agencies should be on the lookout for this. It’s been tried before.
The worst part of this whole thing is that for the most part we expect election technology firms to be politically neutral—and most are. But it’s pretty disturbing to see a Soros-backed venture trying to gain such a large foothold in the election space (and beyond). Someone needs to keep an eye on these folks. It isn’t really what it appears to be and some skepticism is in order here.
Smartmatic Chairman Connected to Transitional Government Calls for Venezuela
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Smartmatic-Chairman-Connected-to-Transitional-Government-Calls-for-Venezuela-20170804-0021.html
Questions are being asked about the links between a former British minister of state, a U.S. billionaire and the Venezuelan National Constituent Assembly vote count.
London-based Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mugica claimed on Wednesday that the turnout had been tampered with.
Mugica said it had been inflated by about a million votes, but did not elaborate on how the company arrived at their conclusion.
Asked why he did not alert the Venezuelan government, he said: “I guess we probably thought that the authorities would not be sympathetic to what we had to say.”
Venezuela's National Electoral Council said over 8 million people had cast their ballots and disputed his claims.
Mark Malloch Brown, a minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth office under the former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, is Chairman of Smartmatic.
The British Lord is also Chairman of the International Crisis Group, which has called for a "transitional government" in Venezuela.
"Restoration of constitutional rule probably will require formation of a transitional government of national unity under a mutually acceptable interim president," says the Power without the People: Averting Venezuela’s Breakdown, a document published by the organization on July 19.
In addition, the briefing note calls for the heavy involvement of the Organization of American States in the suggested negotiations, which would also include a "transitional justice" scheme to give government officials "safe passage to exile."
"Carrots as well as sticks are needed."
Formed in the 1990s, the International Crisis Group aims "to prevent wars and shape policies that will build a more peaceful world," through lobbying and "advocacy."
The Washington-based organization receives most of its funds from North American and European governments, as well as private foundations.
The Morning Star reports that Lord Malloch-Brown has close links to the Hungarian-born U.S. billionaire NGO kingpin George Soros.
Malloch Brown was a member of the Soros advisory committee on Bosnia from 1993-94.
As the United Nations Development Fund administrator in 2002, he suggested the agency work alongside Soros’s Open Society Institute.
He also served briefly as the UN deputy secretary-general in 2006.
In May 2007, Malloch Brown was made vice-president of Soros’s tax-haven hedge fund the Quantum Fund, but resigned in September that year when he joined Gordon Brown’s short-lived government.
Soros also serves on the Board of the International Crisis Group, and his Open Society organization is one of the group's main funders.
And he is a major financier of New York-based Human Rights Watch.
Soros pledged a challenge grant of US$100 million over 10 years in 2010 to the non-governmental organization which has been a long-standing and fierce critic of Venezuela’s socialist government.
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https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2015/08/22/1491174/philippine-elections-big-money
Philippine elections is big money
This column dug deeper into the Smartmatic-PCOS system and found there was more to it than the debate on whether we should return to manual in 2016. With the information, I would say categorically we have no choice but to discard the automated electoral system being forced on us by Smartmatic. It will not be an easy task. It demands a single minded and purposeful battle against Smartmatic, its system and the machines it has been peddling to corrupt officials.
At first, we were merely looking at big money being traded each time we had elections – money to buy votes, money to buy politicians’ favor, money to campaign and so forth and so on. The desire for good governance and the election of capable, meritorious candidates was out of the equation. Presidential elections had become a business and made millionaires even billionaires out of incompetent but popular personalities.
After googling for information on Smartmatic’s chairman, Mark Malloch-Brown, there was more about him that we should know.
He was central to the puzzle of why Smartmatic had such power and would not yield to any investigation or threat.
Prior to being Smartmatic’s chairman, he was vice-chairman of the George Soros Investment Funds and the administrator of the UN Development Program.
Wayne Madsen of the Strategic Culture Foundation wrote that “nowhere is the Soros and CIA influence felt more than in the UN Development Program.” He said that “many UN staffers have links to the CIA” like Lynn Pascoe and Gregory Starr, both UN Under-Secretary Generals. Malloch-Brown was also the UN Deputy Secretary General.
But the most interesting item from his bio data on the UN website was that he was an adviser to Cory Aquino when she ran against Ferdinand Marcos in a snap election. He was also adviser to other presidential and political candidates, particularly in Latin America. He was once consultant for the Sawyer Miller group that advised Cory Aquino during the Imelda Marcos trial in New York. I was the spokesperson for the Aquino government during the trial.
So much for the international aspects and the big money that comes with Smartmatic actively conducting our elections. Happily, Filipinos are not entirely powerless to confront this monster that now threatens our country.
There is a solution. We can change our Constitution asap to restructure our body politic from presidential to parliamentary. Then we will no longer need automation. We will have smaller constituencies and fewer candidates and less campaign money to allow meritorious candidates from our marginalized sectors to run for elections.
At the meeting in STAR Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista admitted “If we had a parliamentary system, we would not be in such a mess.” He was, of course referring to the coming Smartmatic-PCOS election in 2016.
It was a surprising admission on his part that the current presidential system leads to graft and corruption of big money and the entry of foreign influence to control our government and political system. More developed countries, ie Germany just turned it down.
Apart from this, the current political system, as I have been repeating, limits the choice of voters to those who control the system, the rich oligarchs and family dynasties. The high cost of campaigning breeds corruption and has shut out the marginalized sectors from being fully represented in proportion to their weight.
The lack of choice, of new faces, is best summed up by the remarks of a cab driver, “Pareho sila lahat. Walang pagbabago. Sila lang merong pera. Ang buhay namin hindi magpapalit.”
For the first time, a government official in charge of elections admitted we need constitutional reform before we go through another problematic Smartmatic-PCOS election.
Let us return to the manual system or let us not have elections at all.
There is an important essay in the blog “Electronic Vote & Democracy” going around in social media. It explains why we must shift the debate on Smartmatic PCOS from technical to moral and social issues.
“Electronic voting is unfit for political elections in a democracy and no technology can change this. But of course there are recent claims that this “barrier” has been overcome with the use of strong cryptographic techniques, homomorphic protocols, etc to achieve elections of provable (not probable !) validity…
In democracy governmental power is transferred by counting secret votes during elections. To accept such transfer people and parties must be 100% sure that electoral results are fair and square: doubts about the legitimacy of the winner can damage the political life of the country and even bring riots and revolutions…
Electoral procedures are obviously setup and managed by large organizations which span all over the country and give contracts to private and public companies…
Sitting governments are in charge of guaranteeing the accuracy of electoral results and the secrecy of votes, but the social groups and the economic powers which are the base of any government have the obvious interest in falsifying electoral results and violating the secrecy of votes to preserve power. They succeed thanks to the complete control they have over the electoral process.
The only way to guarantee fairness of elections is that electoral procedures guarantee that each vote really represents its (unknown) elector’s will.
We know we can’t blindly trust any organization when dealing with elections, thus we, the people, need to verify all by ourselves that those electoral procedures really work as they should!
Fairness of elections can be guaranteed only by electoral procedure open to the active check of the people, the so called democratic control.
Ballot paper elections can be subjected to proper democratic control because humans can check the handling of ballot papers, which are visible and tangible objects. It’s not by chance that all democracies always used ballot papers! With them a few votes may get lost, but no foreign country, terrorist group, economic or political power will ever be able to alter the final result of our elections.
That’s why ballot paper elections are suitable for democracy….
Results of any electronic vote are, due to their nature, unverifiable and no technical solution can overcome this fact!….
When ballot paper elections are held under proper conditions, the people can tally up real votes (ballot papers democratic control are hand written by electors and readable by anyone). When ballot papers are publicly counted in the same place as they were voted and when scrutinizers are randomly selected citizens (as done in Italy, for example), then who actually counts votes and declares the result of each ballot station is the public, and the central electoral service has the mere role of tallying such results…
In the hopeless aim to overcome the fact that results of electronic elections are not verifiable, some vote verification methods (like VVPAT) have been proposed, but they still are not able to guarantee fairness of elections.
Electronic vote, carried out via computer and digital links represents a poisoned chalice for technologically advanced countries; it is no exaggeration to say that it threatens to eliminate democracy as we know it today.
Not to be duped we, the people, must lift e-vote debate outside the technical arena and lay it in the arena of basic principles we all understand, the arena where we all are able to answer the question: “do we accept and trust unverifiable electronic votes or do we prefer to use verifiable ballot papers and public (transparent) and repeatable procedures?” Go figure !”
https://www.inquisitr.com/3611427/george-soros-maniac-globalist-who-clinton-campaign-want-to-keep-happy-to-oversee-votes-in-16-u-s-states/
George Soros, Maniac Globalist The Clinton Campaign Wants To ‘Keep Happy,’ To Oversee Votes In 16 U.S. States
George Soros’ U.K. company Smartmatic is providing voting machines in 16 U.S. states for this year’s election, the Daily Caller has reported, which should qualify as a conflict of interest, as recent WikiLeaks Podesta emails have revealed that the Clinton campaign wants to “keep Soros happy.”
Robby Mook: "I would only do this for political reasons to make SOROS happy."
Huma Abedin: "She's having dinner with Soros tonight" #Hannity pic.twitter.com/l7tqvF6UwY
— IrredeemableTrumpian (@OmniTrump) October 17, 2016
Specifically, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook was conversing with Hillary’s personal aide Huma Abedin in late 2014, and Huma wrote, “She is having dinner with George Soros tonight.”
The aide then mentions an organization called America Votes, of which “Soros is a big supporter” and “hes (sic) going to ask her tonight if she will come to a fundraiser for them at his house in December. Thoughts?”
It’s unclear who the “she” is the two are referencing, but in answer to Abedin, Mook writes, “I would only do this for political reasons (ie [sic] to make Soros happy).”
So Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s active campaign manager for the 2016 U.S. presidential election, believes it’s in his political interest to make George Soros happy? Interesting.
It sure does sound like Soros is vying for a President Hillary Clinton.
This, however, is not a secret. The maniac globalist has been outspoken regarding the upcoming election. He believes Trump has no chance and that Hillary Clinton will win in a landslide. Could it be that he’s depending partly on Smartmatic technology, which will be gracing 16 states with its presence come November 8, for a Clinton victory?
In case you were wondering, Soros is not a good guy. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, just before the Nazis came to power. As an adolescent, he is said to have aided the Hitler-controlled totalitarian regime in the persecution of the Jewish people, according to Zero Hedge.
“Allegedly, in 1944, 14-year-old George Soros went to work for the invading Nazis. It is said that until the end of the war in 1945, he worked with a government official, helping him confiscate property from the local Jewish population.”
George once told a reporter that he remembers those years of WWII darkness and death longingly.
“In an 1998 interview with 60 Minutes, Soros described the year of German occupation as ‘the happiest time in my life.’”
Soros’s list of accomplishments include the donation of $15 million to the Clintons throughout their political career, he’s given Black Lives Matter $33 million — meaning he’s funded all the violent riots done in their name in the past few years — and he’s partly to blame for the Middle Eastern migrant crisis currently wreaking havoc across Europe.
There are also multiple money trails that travel from Soros to the refugee crisis. For example, Open Society Foundations, which belongs to George Soros, gives its money to the organization Welcome to the EU, which was the group responsible for providing refugees with handbooks appropriately dubbed “Migrant Handbooks.”
George Soros Open Society group w2eu "Migrant Handbook"#refugeescrisis pic.twitter.com/bHGHbWpp2k
— DJ Rubiconski (@Rubiconski) September 15, 2015
“The refugee crisis is not a naturally occurring phenomenon. It coincided with OSF donating money to the US-based Migration Policy Institute and the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, both Soros-sponsored organizations. Both groups advocate the resettlement of third-world Muslims into Europe.”
In short, it seems that in places where humanity exists in chaos, the elderly Hungarian’s money isn’t far away.
Read more: https://www.inquisitr.com/3611427/george-soros-maniac-globalist-who-clinton-campaign-want-to-keep-happy-to-oversee-votes-in-16-u-s-states/#ixzz6d4QGbwIb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_Voting_Systems