[Epoch Times via Skagit County Republican Party] Behind a significant portion of voting machines used in the United States lies a complex web of questionable foreign ties, a hidden ownership structure, and transparency concerns with the software itself, as well as a connection between three key voting systems companies: Smartmatic, Sequoia Voting Systems, and Dominion Voting Systems.
Information from lawsuits, public records, and witness interviews helps to untangle this web.
The Epoch Times spoke with an intelligence source knowledgeable on Venezuela and its criminal activities, a former CIA official who is an expert in Latin American politics and counterterrorism, and a former director of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council who was fired for exposing election fraud in the country. Two of the sources requested anonymity so they could speak freely on the matter. Spoke with Epoch Times out of sheer frustration with the US Intelligence Communities lack of interest ?
At the center of all of this is Dominion’s voting technology, which is currently used in 28 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, according to the firm’s official website. More than 40 percent of American voters cast their ballots through the Dominion system in general elections, including 65 of Michigan’s 83 counties, all 159 counties in Georgia, and 2.2 million voters in Maricopa, Arizona’s largest county, among others.
Meanwhile, Smartmatic has in recent years focused on project management and consulting for elections, rather than providing software or machines.
Smartmatic was founded by three Venezuelan engineers in 1997—Antonio Mucica, Alfredo Jose, and Roger Piñate. It was in the business of electronic voting systems, identity management, and systems for civil registration and authentication products.
Although a little-known company at the time, Smartmatic was chosen by Venezuela’s regime for a 2004 referendum that socialist leader Hugo Chávez would win. Prior to that, Smartmatic was part of a consortium that included a software company partly owned by a Venezuelan government agency. At the time, there was a wide array of allegations of fraud in the referendum by media organizations and observers.
Smartmatic was officially incorporated in Delaware in April 2000 and headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. In April 2003, the company unveiled a prototype election automation machine. It was developed in-house and included the integration of hardware and software from design to deployment. The company moved its main headquarters to Amsterdam in 2004 and then London in 2012.
Smartmatic allegedly has 30 anonymous investors and silent partners who are mainly upper-class Venezuelans, including defense minister Jose Vicente Rangel and Chávez mentor Luis Miquelina, and others, according to a July 20, 2006, State Department diplomatic cable that was leaked to Wikileaks.
The company publicly acknowledged that Venezuela’s government manipulated the results of the country’s 2017 Constitutional Assembly election. Smartmatic said the turnout figures were overstated by at least 1 million votes, Reuters reported.
"We know, without any doubt, that the turnout of the recent election for a National Constituent Assembly was manipulated," Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mugica said at a news briefing in London in 2017. "We estimate the difference between the actual participation and the one announced by authorities is at least 1 million votes."
Chávez’s successor, Nicolás Maduro, who is allied with the Chinese Communist Party and Russia, was indicted by the Trump administration in March on charges of "narco-terrorism." Cuba’s Fidel Castro also mourned the death of Chávez, who called him a "father, a comrade," according to a 2005 interview with Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma.
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In Venezuela, Ana Mercedes Díaz was appointed deputy director general of the country’s National Electoral Council in 1991. Then, in 2003—just before the referendum—she was appointed director general of political parties of the council. (The electoral council is one of the five branches of Venezuela’s government responsible for overseeing its elections and referendums.)
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Smartmatic allegedly has 30 anonymous investors and silent partners who are mainly upper-class Venezuelans, including defense minister Jose Vicente Rangel and Chávez mentor Luis Miquelina, and others, according to a July 20, 2006, State Department diplomatic cable that was leaked to Wikileaks.
All plank holders of the Movement for Socialism (Venezuela).
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Here's the state of democracy in America in 2020 -- many of our nation's voting infrastructure has:
"a complex web of questionable foreign ties"
"a hidden ownership structure"
"transparency concerns with the software itself"
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Don't forget the Chinese government: SEC Filings Show $400 Million Chinese Link To Dominion Made Days Before Election
“On Oct 8, 2020, Staple Street Capital filed SEC Form D offerings and sales amount of $400,000,000 with the Sales Compensation Recipient identified as UBS Securities,” states the investigation, which also notes that another payment of $200,000,000 was received in December 2014.
“UBS Securities is a swiss investment bank which owns 24.99% of UBS Securities Co LTD, a Chinese Investment Bank. The remaining 75% of UBS Securities CO LTD is owned by the Chinese government,” states the report.
The overall owners of UBS Securities Co LTD are;
– Beijing Guoxiang (33%)
– UBS (24.99%)
– Guangdong Comm. Group [zh] (14.01%)
– China Guodian (14%)
– COFCO Group (14%)
Aside from UBS, the other four owners of UBS Securities are all Communist Chinese front groups.
[PJ] White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday evening highlighted an incredible statistic that is included in State of Texas v. Pennsylvania, et. al.
"Expert analysis using a commonly accepted statistical test further raises serious questions as to the integrity of this election," the lawsuit reads. "The probability of former Vice President Biden winning the popular vote in the four Defendant States—Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—independently given President Trump’s early lead in those States as of 3 a.m. on November 4, 2020, is less than one in a quadrillion, or 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000."
"The odds of Joe Biden winning all four of those states collectively is less than one in a quadrillion to the fourth power," it continues.
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The Uniparty is betting that among 70 million Trump supporters not more than a tiny minority can understand statistical reasoning. They assume that we're as ignorant and math-challenged as they are. Bad assumption.
Even a back of the envelope calculation with publicly-available data for election results since 1996 would show that the conditional probability for Biden actually winning Pennsylvania, when he lost Ohio by 8 points, is about one in a thousand.
The typical gap between OH and PA is about 5 points; the standard error of this mean value is about 0.8. So what Biden and his tools are claiming -- a 9-point gap between the actual OH result (Trump, +8) and their claimed PA result (Trump, -1) -- would represent about a six sigma difference.
That's roughly equal to the probability that Hunter Biden actually is, as his Pop said, "the most brilliant man I know."
How long do these morons expect to get away with such stupidity?
[G&G] "That used to be a bog, and that used to be a bog, and that," JJ Apodaca says, pointing to neatly mowed ditches as we wind through the rural valleys of the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains in his field truck. To the casual observer, the landscape looks...normal, dotted with farmhouses and livestock. But not if you’re a bog turtle.
"Historically, before these valleys were drained for agriculture, this landscape would have been covered in bogs," Apodaca says. As I learn later when I walk through one, bogs in this part of the country are grassy, flooded meadows fed by springs. They’re muddy, a little treacherous to cross if you don’t know where to step, and home to the smallest and rarest turtle in North America.
Not that anyone would know it. You could tramp through a bog a hundred times over and never see one. Bog turtles are tiny—quarter-sized as babies, about four inches long as adults—and they burrow in the mud and thick rushes. To find them, Apodaca and his team of biologists use broom handles to gently poke through vegetation and muck—"just listening for that thunk."
Since 2014, Apodaca, a biologist and geneticist based in Asheville and the director of conservation and science at the Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy, has been on a mission to drag the Southern population of bog turtles back from the edge of extinction. It’s no easy task. Everything seems to be working against the turtles, from their own biology (females take five to ten years to mature and then lay only two or three eggs per clutch) to the loss and fragmentation of their habitat to, perhaps most gravely, the threat of poachers. Being tiny and impossibly cute is not advantageous when it comes to the illegal pet trade. For that reason, researchers keep these locations a closely guarded secret.
[LI] On Sunday night, December 13, 2020, Legal Insurrection Foundation will host an online Zoom event on the topic of "How Critical Race Training Is Harming Higher Ed." Registration is required, sign up here.
The impact of CRT on higher education has been covered here frequently, and will be an increasing focus for us. I was hoping to have a *big* announcement in that regard by now, but it may take a few more days. Maybe in time for the event.
The panel should be really informative. There will be a chance for Q&A.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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[Epoch Times via Skagit County Republican Party] Behind a significant portion of voting machines used in the United States lies a complex web of questionable foreign ties, a hidden ownership structure, and transparency concerns with the software itself, as well as a connection between three key voting systems companies: Smartmatic, Sequoia Voting Systems, and Dominion Voting Systems. 
Smartmatic allegedly has 30 anonymous investors and silent partners who are mainly upper-class Venezuelans, including defense minister Jose Vicente Rangel and Chávez mentor Luis Miquelina, and others, according to a July 20, 2006, State Department diplomatic cable that was leaked to Wikileaks.
[PJ] White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday evening highlighted an incredible statistic that is included in State of Texas v. Pennsylvania, et. al.
[G&G] "That used to be a bog, and that used to be a bog, and that," JJ Apodaca says, pointing to neatly mowed ditches as we wind through the rural valleys of the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains in his field truck. To the casual observer, the landscape looks...normal, dotted with farmhouses and livestock. But not if you’re a bog turtle.
