1/ Miami Herald warning on Smartmatic 3/29/2006: “Software engineers with links to the Leftist, anti-American regime of Hugo Chavez are in charge of programming electronic voting machines that will soon power U.S. elections” https://www.newspapers.com/image/653845089 

2/ “Smartmatic which has been accused by Venezuela’s opposition of helping rig elections in his favor now controls a major U.S. e-voting firm”

3/ “Smartmatic has a brief but controversial history. The company was started in Caracas {but] disingenuously described as a Florida company...[with] only a small office in Boca Raton”

4/ “The tiny company rocketed from obscurity in 2004 after it was awarded a $100M contract by the Chavez dominated Natl Electoral Council to replace Venezuela’s electronic voting machines for the recall vote”

5/ “When the vote finally came, NY’s Penn, Schoen, & Berland Assoc showed Chavez had been defeated 59% to 41%; however, when official tallies were announced the numbers flipped in favor of Chavez”

6/ “Venezuela’s electoral council briefly posted machine-by-machine tallies on the internet, but removed them as mathematicians from MIT, Harvard, & other universities began questioning suspicious patterns in the results”

7/ “ Flush with cash from its Venezuelan adventures, Smartmatic Intl incorporated in DELAWARE last year & purchased Sequoia, announcing the deal as a merger between TWO U.S. COMPANIES”

8/ "Why Smartmatic has chosen yet again to abuse the corporate form apparently to conceal the nationality & identity of its true owners is a question that should worry anyone who votes using one of its machines”