Smartmatic International Corporation – also dba, Smartmatic Asia-Pacific, Smartmatic TIM Corporation, Smartmatic USA Corporation and Smartmatic International Holding B.V. – is one of the electronic election voting system technology companies being accused of monkeying election tallies. The corporation has formerly denied any technological or fiscal relationship with Dominion Voting Systems, Inc. – also dba, Dominion Voting Systems International Corporation and Dominion Voting Systems Corporation – another voting system company under the election fraud microscope. “Smartmatic’s response to disinformation” statement as posted on their website can be read in full, here. The corporation’s firm refutation of any financially enriching or technology sharing relationship between Smartmatic and Dominion includes:
Smartmatic has never owned any shares or had any financial stake in Dominion Voting Systems. Smartmatic has never provided Dominion Voting Systems with any software, hardware or other technology. The two companies are competitors in the marketplace.
Well, the last sentence is true, technically. However, “… never provided Dominion Voting Systems with any software, hardware or other technology,” is a flat out lie, if paper trails count for anything in the Year of the Idiot. Legal filings seem to back up this denunciation of Smartmatic’s claim to have never shared technology with, or had any kind of financial stake in, Dominion.
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Exhibit A
The Sequoia Voting Systems acquisition
We’ve touched on the Smartmatic/Sequoia/Dominion love triangle in our post, Election Voting Systems by County – PA, MI, WI. Evidence of the 2010 acquisition of Sequoia Voting Systems by Dominion is available for review in a The Gateway Pundit article titled, “Smartmatic Denies Transfer of Technology to Dominion Voting Systems — Articles Scrubbed from Website — But Internet Archive Never Lies.” The article contains internet archived documents detailing the reality that Dominion Voting Systems purchased Sequoia Voting Systems, a former Smartmatic property. Logic suggests a Smartmatic company uses Smartmatic technology, ergo, Dominion and Smartmatic use shared technology if Dominion uses Sequoia technology. Purchasing or acquiring assets requires an exchange of funds, as well.
SUMMARY
Smartmatic sold a voting technology business they owned to Dominion.
– Technology shared, check.
– Financial stake, check.
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Exhibit(s) B
The 2010 Phillipine elections
Technically, this would be a Dominion sharing technology with Smartmatic issue, technically.
2010 marked the inaugural year for automated Filipino elections. There are still lawsuits and investigations over accusations of fraud, agency and elected official responsibilities, compromised voting equipment and software as well as contract violations. Rather than hash all out in a tedious timeline fashion, please find below links to documents including legal complaints filed and judicial decision on same. Click the hot link (letters in burgundy) if interested in reviewing the entire document or article. While not a legal expert, I’ve taken an excerpt or two from each filing I find eyebrow arch worthy in light of Smartmatic’s cleverly worded claim of no technological or financial connection with Dominion.
Filipino Supreme Court Decision 10 February 2010
“And besides, the Licensing Agreement between Smartmatic and the Dominion Voting Systems indicates that the former is the entity licensed by the latter to use the system in the Philippines.” p. 9
“At any rate, the clear terms of the Licensing Agreement between Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems indicate that the former is the entity licensed exclusively by the latter to use the system in the Philippines.” p.101
Joint Complaint-Affidavit 10 June 2013
“23. Smartmatic is not the owner of the Technology but outsourced the Automated Election System to Dominion International, in violation of the Bid Specification of COMELEC and the Philippine Procurement Law.” p.6
Article from the Phillipine Star, “Comelec: No More Mock Elections” 17 February 2013
“Meanwhile, House Minority Leader and Quezon Rep. Danilo Suarez hit Brillantes for his continued cavalier attitude on the international dispute between Smartmatic, which was contracted by the Comelec to supply the PCOS machines, and Dominion Voting Systems that owns the software to run the equipment.“
SUMMARY
There was a Licensing Agreement in place between Smartmatic and Dominion during the 2010 Filipino elections, at least.
– Technology shared, check.
– Financial stake, check.
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EXHIBIT C
Smartmatic v. Dominion 11 September 2012
Smartmatic International Corp/Smartmatic USA Corporation/Smartmatic International Holdings B.V. v. Dominion Voting Systems International Corporation/Dominion Voting Systems, Inc./Dominion Voting Systems Corporation and Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management, Inc.
“In 2009, Smartmatic International and Dominion International executed a License Agreement in which Dominion granted to Smartmatic a worldwide license to market, make, use and sell precinct count optical scan (“PCOS”) voting systems utilizing Dominion’s optical scan voting system technology. The License Agreement obligated Dominion International to provide Smartmatic International with, among other things, the hardware, software, firmware and technical support needed to enable Smartmatic to exploit the broad license granted by Dominion.” p. 4
SUMMARY
Smartmatic is suing Dominion for violating their Licensing Agreement. Licensing involves the sharing of technology and paying a fee for use of same.
– Technology shared, check.
– Financial stake, check.
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See also: The View From Here
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Smartmatic may wish to check themselves for a pants related fire.
This ‘Merican’s Perspective:
It’s one of those, technically, both sides are not indulging in mistruths . . . on paper, with good lawyers.
The voting systems people say there is no connection between two entities . . . two entities with a variety of registered names, who’ve been playing swapsies with other registered businesses. Individuals accusing these companies of rigging elections for the highest bidder are also telling the truth when they say it’s a close family, those competing vendors competing for election contracts.
If one embraces the Smartmatic posit that their engineers were inspired to create a secure, electronic voting system after the 2000 US General Election hanging chad disputes in Florida, and that said systems are up for sale to rig elections, it would not be beyond the pale to suggest every election, in every nation, that has used these electronic voting systems since the 2000 US General Election has been decided on fraudulent results.