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The information implied about the Smartmatic executive is incorrect. It was Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez, co-founder and former president of Smartmatic, along with executives Jorge Miguel Vasquez and Elie Moreno, who were charged with orchestrating a plan to pay more than $1 million in bribes to Juan Andres Donato Bautista, former chairman of the Philippines’ Commission on Elections (COMELEC), between 2015 and 2018 in the Philippines not Texas.

As for Texas, Heider Garcia, a Smartmatic engineer testified before the Philippine congress in the above bribery case about the anomalies in the voting machines, anomalies which changed the dates of the votes. He was not charged with bribery or anything related to the voting machines in the Philippines.

In 2018 Heider Garcia was hired as the Elections Administrator for Tarrant County Texas he approved Tarrant County buying Dominion voting machines and in 2020 Tarrant County went blue for the first time in over 50 years. Heider Garcia resigned from Tarrant Count in 2023 and is now working in neighboring Dallas County.

As for Tarrant County, Texas they no longer use Dominion voting machines they use Hart Intercivic machines which are just as bad.
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BOMBSHELL: Tarrant County Hart Intercivic Machines Flip Votes and Manipulate Ballot Images

https://professordavidclements.substack.com/p/bombshell-tarrant-county-hart-intercivic

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Last month news emerged that a Dominion/Liberty Vote tabulator had dropped a vote in a critical school board race in Chaves County, New Mexico which altered the outcome of that election. The faulty programming was only discovered because the race was so close that it required a recount.

An even more shocking story is now emerging out of Tarrant County, Texas, where a Hart Intercivic election system not only miscounted a vote, but it also manipulated the accompanying ballot image to match the wrongly counted vote. This incident indicates the system itself can be programmed to drop votes and cover it up by altering accompanying digital election records.

According to a sworn affidavit, the incident occurred during a logic and accuracy test that took place on December 10th and 11th, 2025 at the Tarrant County election facility in Forth Worth, Texas. The logic and accuracy test is intended to demonstrate that an election system is working properly before an upcoming special runoff election scheduled for January 31st, 2026. During the logic and accuracy test, Tarrant County elections official, Paul Benevides, ran 72 pre-filled test ballots with a known result through the tabulators that will be used during the real election.

The result should have shown 72 votes for a candidate named Taylor Rehmet and zero votes for his opponent, Leigh Wambsganss. However, the Hart system reported that there were 71 votes for Rehmet and one undervote – as if one test ballot had been left blank. Surprised by the wrong result, the attendees of the public logic and accuracy test investigated.

Like most voting systems, the Hart tabulators capture a scanned image of each ballot and use software to determine which squares the voters filled to apply the vote to the correct candidate. The image of the ballot that was counted as an undervote was easily located in the Hart system. Since ballots are serialized in Tarrant County, the digital image was then matched to the physical ballot it was supposed to represent. The physical ballot had the square indicating a vote for Rehmet completely filled in, yet the accompanying ballot image created by the Hart voting system showed a blank square next to Rehmet’s name.

The batch of 72 ballots was run again, and it produced the same manipulated result and the same manipulated ballot image for the same ballot.

It is impossible for a digital scanner to process 72 identical ballots and scan 71 of those ballots correctly yet manipulate one to remove a vote from the digital record without being specifically programmed to do so. The fact the system did the same manipulation on the same ballot twice in a row indicates that a manipulation, likely tied to the ballot serial numbers, was programmed into the Hart voting system.

Benevides shrugged off the manipulation as a “glitch” and nothing to worry about and moved on with the testing. In reality, not only was the logic and accuracy test a failure, but it proved that the machines in Tarrant County are programmed to manipulate elections.