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On Smartmatic voting machines:
AP’S ASSESSMENT: Soros, who donates to liberal political causes, does not own Smartmatic, a company that specializes in voting technology.
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 holding 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.
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. The company’s website 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 2005-06 election cycle, when it offered its services to 16 states, according to their website.
https://www.omaha.com/news/trending/on-smartmatic-voting-machines/article_cc969e3a-f1ce-5933-98bd-c2036ad93070.html