Dominion-Smartmatic
Two companies that were barely known a few months ago are now household names, the subjects of charges and countercharges, headline stories, and multiple lawsuits. Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic Corp. have been at the center of a slew of claims of vote fraud, vote theft, ballot manipulation, political bias, and entangling relations with foreign regimes hostile to the United States, including China, Russia, Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela. There is a great deal of confusion about the two companies, which is completely understandable since they have a tangled and confusing history together and both companies have issued statements that critics across the political spectrum have charged are obfuscations or outright lies.
In the wake of the recent 2020 elections, both companies have threatened to launch lawsuits against their critics, who by-and-large have been supporters of President Trump. And virtually all of the hate-Trump media and their “fact-checker” accomplices, including those that have been critical of the electronic voting companies in the past, have lined up in support of Dominion and Smartmatic, parroting their corporate press releases and failing to investigate Dominion/Smartmatic weasel-worded claims.
Dominion, which was a small fry in the electronic voting industry a few years ago, has shot up to the number two spot, behind only Election Systems & Software (ES&S). A 2017 study by Penn Wharton (the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) put Dominion’s “voter reach” in the United States at around 72 million voters, compared to around 84 million voters for ES&S. In third place is Hart InterCivic at around 22 million voters. In congressional testimony in January 2020, Dominion CEO John Paulos stated: “As a U.S.-owned company, we currently provide voting systems and services to jurisdictions across 30 states and Puerto Rico.” Dominion’s voting systems are at issue in most of the battleground states, including Georgia, which was crucial not only in the 2020 presidential election, but also in the state’s two Senate races, which were flipped, giving the Democrats control of the U.S. Senate. So matters concerning Dominion’s ownership, biases, political ties (foreign and domestic), and financial ties (foreign and domestic) are no small thing.
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