I am fully aware of what is going on at all levels of state, local and federal elections.
As for Obama which senate election local or state? The year is important. Obama ran for Illinois state senate in 1996, US Senate in 2003. Smartmatic was started in 2000 and Dominion in 2002.
Dominion was not a player in the early HAVA years in the US due to they only were developing software and the election voting systems vendors at that time had their own software divisions.
Dominion did not become a player in the voting systems industry until they sued ES&S. In 2009 ES&S acquired the biggest player in the election voting machine field, Diebold Election Systems dba Premier Election Solutions. Dominion sued on antitrust grounds and won. ES&S had withdraw their Diebold acquisition and due to this Dominion acquiring Diebold Election Systems dba Premier Elections Solutions giving Dominion a major presence in the US election voting machine industry. This happened in May 2010.
Diebold Election Systems aka Premier Election Solutions was the sole source vendor for Georgia’s election voting machines which transferred to Dominion due to their acquisition.
Smartmatic did not enter the US election business until 2005 when it purchased Sequoia Voting Systems one of the big 3, along with Hart Civic and Diebold, in the elections industry. The 2004 elections were already done and over. Smartmatic sold Sequoia in 2007.
Smartmatic re-entered the US market in 2018 when it was awarded the elections contract for LA VSAP elections program.
Current criminal case against Smartmatic is for allegedly bribing Philippine election officials to obtain business. The same accusation have been made with Smartmatic being awarded the LA VSAP contract but nothing has been filed related to that.
In the 2004 elections when Obama ran for US Senate ES&S was the voting machine vendor. The ES&S voting machines had a 16% error rate. The interesting aspect here is that ES&S at that time used programed memory cards for their machines. The memory cards were provided by Vikant Corp., a company controlled by Alex Kantarovich of Minsk, Belorussia. Even though the cards were programmed by ES&S at its Chicago office, the cards Vikant made for ES&S were not manufactured in the US and Mr. Kantarovich refused to disclose where they were made.
ES&S also during this time period was providing through INDRA, a Madrid based company, 7,000 election voting machines to Venezuela for their elections. Machines which had a 6% breakdown during the Venezuelan elections.
ES&S machines also contained an internal expedite modem made by a vendor in the satellite communications industry that could be accessed by hackers.
https://libertylobby.org/articles/2000/20001107vmachines.html
Much skullduggery was more than likely done to get Obama elected but Dominion and Smartmatic were not the players in 2004.
ES&S machines had multiple weaknesses for hacking plus were using memory cards made by a Belorussia company that wouldn’t tell the public anything about the memory cards manufacturing process. Add to this it was Illinois is not known for clean elections.