Inherently Flawed or Purposefully Rigged? A brief History from 2002-2020

It is a confusing mess connecting all of the dots to the voting systems in play that are accused of at least easily hackable systems, if not purposefully rigged systems.   

Sidney Powell's expert pointed out the purposeful and strategic alleged cheating in the Elections for Hugo Chavez in Venezuela via Smartmatic Voting Systems, while fact-checkers and Smartmatic themselves denied their involvement.  Sidney Powell's experts have gone on the record explaining the connections with Smartmatic, Dominion Voting Systems, Sequoia, and Scytl.   

Here's the basic idea: Smartmatic was designed by Venezuelans that helped to rig elections. Smartmatic used and licensed some of the software from Dominion both still uses the software design from Smartmatic. The companies have worked together and as competitors depending on the year and the situation.  Smartmatic admits they owned Sequoia, but sold them in 2007.  Ostensibly they all have the same basic programming as Sidney Powell's experts point out.  Smartmatic creates the backbone (like the cloud). SCYTL is responsible for the security within the election system.

Venezuelan-led Smartmatic bought Sequoia, put its technology into Sequoia, and then sold it to Dominion. Dominion denies the relationship with Smartmatic now, though at but once allowed Smartmatic to market its same technology where Dominion didn't do business. The bottom line is that the technology is all the same because they were all the same company.

One thing is clear.  Each one of these companies either has trouble with keeping their servers or machines secure, or worse, each are purposefully designed to rig elections.  

2002-2008 Sequoia is littered with vote switching or vote tallying errors. 

2012-Dominion Admits to its software switching votes in Palm Beach, Florida.  

2014-Scytl On election day, February 23, the technology failed on several levels: The Scytl software did not work at all in some districts. The program could not read a large part of the scanned election papers correctly and interpret them correctly. And some servers completely failed because of the large amount of data. In the jungle regions, where the internet was weak, the situation was particularly dramatic. Does this sound familiar?  At least there is no denial of using the internet.  

2015 Scytl-Researchers Alex Halderman from the University of Michigan and Vanessa Teague from the University of Melbourne took a closer look at the system and discovered a serious vulnerability  If the hackers had done this with malicious intent, they could have removed the anonymity of the voter and manipulated the vote.  Sound familiar?  

2017-Smartmatic admits its machines were rigged in Venezuela (they claim their innocence). 

2019-Scytl voting systems were temporarily blocked from use after Switzerland found errors in the software. 

2020 -Dominion Voting Systems have been caught in Antrim County (Michigan) having machines with 68% error rates or purposefully rigged machines.  

"Voting over the internet is not secure enough to be trusted for government elections," Teague tells CSO. "It's not verifiable." Dr. Vanessa Teague researcher at the University of Melbourne in Australia that has twice demonstrated massive security flaws in the online voting systems used in state elections in Australia.

In conclusion, whether the conspiracies are true or these voting machines are just not capable of being secured, the voting machines clearly have a history of leaving voters disenfranchised and should cause pause to their use.

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https://www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20120323/news/812037498

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3269297/online-voting-is-impossible-to-secure-so-why-are-some-governments-using-it.html

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/14/forensic-auditors-find-shocking-68-error-rate-one-/

https://www.republik.ch/2019/01/31/das-heikle-geschaeft-mit-der-demokratie

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.1.15.pdf

https://www.themillennialbridge.com/the-link-between-dominion-sequoia-smartmatic-and-the-ccp/#:~:text=In%20May%202010%2C%20Dominion%20acquired%20Premier%20Election%20Solutions,16%20states%20and%20300%20jurisdictions%20of%20the%20U.S.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-vote-smartmatic/venezuelan-election-turnout-figures-manipulated-by-one-million-votes-election-company-idUSKBN1AI1KZ