>>11641997 (pb) notable regarding Guiliani's tweet about Smartmatic

". (C) The Venezuelan-owned Smartmatic Corporation is a

riddle both in ownership and operation, complicated by the

fact that its machines have overseen several landslide (and

contested) victories by President Hugo Chavez and his

supporters. The electronic voting company went from a small

technology startup to a market player in just a few years,

catapulted by its participation in the August 2004 recall

referendum. Smartmatic has claimed to be of U.S. origin, but

its true owners – probably elite Venezuelans of several

political strains – remain hidden behind a web of holding

companies in the Netherlands and Barbados. The Smartmatic

machines used in Venezuela are widely suspected of, though

never proven conclusively to be, susceptible to fraud. The

company is thought to be backing out of Venezuelan electoral

events, focusing now on other parts of world, including the

United States via its subsidiary, Sequoia."

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06CARACAS2063_a.html