Posted on 02/04/2021 10:35:00 AM PST by Olog-hai
A voting technology company is suing Fox News, three of its top hosts and two former lawyers for former President Donald Trump — Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell — for $2.7 billion, charging that the defendants conspired to spread false claims that the company helped “steal” the U.S. presidential election.
The 285-page complaint filed Thursday in New York state court by Florida-based Smartmatic USA is one of the largest libel suits ever undertaken. On Jan. 25, a rival election-technology company — Dominion Voting Systems, which was also ensnared in Trump’s baseless effort to overturn the election — sued Guiliani and Powell for $1.3 billion.
Unlike Dominion, whose technology was used in 24 states, Smartmatic’s participation in the 2020 election was restricted to Los Angeles County, which votes heavily Democratic.
Smartmatic’s limited role notwithstanding, Fox aired at least 13 reports falsely stating or implying the company had stolen the 2020 vote in cahoots with Venezuela’s socialist government, according to the complaint. This alleged “disinformation campaign” continued even after then-Attorney General William Barr said the Department of Justice could find no evidence of widespread voter fraud. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
The rats know: Offense. Always. Stay. On. Offense. Always.
Discovery will be interesting.
That can weaken defense.
The strike through a are all appropriate.
Why even have a trial since AP already knows everything. Just let AP decide.
They also lie - Barr did not say no evidence of voter fraud. He qualified it by saying the fraud would not have changed the outcome of the election. A very dubious claim, nonetheless not what AP reports here.
This is where we are. Overt deliberate lies from the major press.
Wh did they file in NYC? Rudy’s base or judge shopping?
They were totally part of The Steal.
They're all rats in dirty New York.
Discovery of what? They wouldn’t be suing if there was remaining evidence. Bleach bit.
Believe it or not, FReepers are not the only ones who understand what discovery is.
So, let’s count the number of lawsuits so far...
* Dominion suing Sidney Powell
* Dominion suing Rudy Giuliani
* Eric Coomer’s defamation lawsuit against the Trump campaign
* and now, Smartmatic’s lawsuit against Giuliani
And of course, we have a lawsuit threat against MyPillow’s Mike Lindell. Lindell told The New York Times, “I would really welcome them to sue me because I have all the evidence against them”.
What I have not yet seen, is a Dominion lawsuit against Jovan Pulitzer, the techie who demonstrated that Dominion’s CEO lied when he said that their machines do not connect to the internet.
There is a word, “discovery” that I will enjoy if these suits proceed.
5.56mm
[[And of course, we have a lawsuit threat against MyPillow’s Mike Lindell. Lindell told The New York Times, “I would really welcome them to sue me because I have all the evidence against them”.]]
Mike is coming out with his evidence or soemthign supposedly significant tomorrow-
To my knowledge there was no investigation into widespread voter fraud, so Bar was telling the truth.
If there was an investigation, let's see it, why has it not been released? The only reason is because it was never conducted and they have nothing to release.
Perhaps Judicial Watch can FOYA it.
They wouldn’t be suing if there was remaining evidence.
Rudy, don’t give the swine at Faux News any of your research. Make them pay to get it together if you can.
OK, let’s see the truth come out.
If Fox or Newsmax or some pundit is going to say “the machines were rigged”, they’d better be able to prove it.
Screw any brainless crapweasels who say “oh, they had to fold/apologize, they were afraid of the lawsuit”; that is B.S. that only a retard or a cultist would believe.
You can’t accuse a company of something like this without proof IN HAND without rightfully getting sued.
Anyone who says the machines were dishonest had better put up proof (defined as ‘proof the courts will look at and accept’) or have some deep pockets.
You can’t make statements about cheating or defective/manipulated machines if you can’t back it up, unless you have some really deep pockets.
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American Thinker ^ | 11/13/2020 | Andrea Widburg / FR Posted on 11/13/2020, 9:33:04 AM by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump is trumpeting a data study showing that Dominion voting machines in contested states systematically stripped 2.5 million votes from Trump. In addition, the same software systems gave 500,000 of Trump’s votes to Biden. Naturally, Democrats disagreed, with AP publishing a shrill and shoddy rebuttal. The data is out there, though, so people can reach their own conclusions.
On Thursday, Nick Chase alerted American Thinker readers to a straightforward data analysis showing that, throughout the November 3 through 4 vote counts, Dominion voting systems abruptly and repeatedly deleted votes from Donald Trump entirely, while at other times transferring votes from Trump to Biden. The total change was 3,000,000 lost Trump votes and a 500,000 vote gain to Biden.
These changes never happened in the other direction. That is, there was no data showing that Dominion software either deleted Biden votes or transferred any of them to Trump. You can read here the post that describes the data used and steps taken to reveal these vote deletions and transfers. However, because it’s written in geek speak, some translation is in order.
What tipped off the research was that people watching CNN noticed that Trump’s and Biden’s vote counts in Pennsylvania instantaneously reflected a 19,958 vote switch, with Trump loosing that number and Biden gaining that number. Someone named “Pede” (short for centipede) was intrigued. Nick Chase explains: Pennsylvania uses Dominion voting systems, which forward their data to Edison Research, which then Javascript-encodes it and sends it on to the New York Times and the networks. So "Pede" downloaded the Edison data for Pennsylvania from the New York Times at this address and analyzed it to locate all similar vote switches, as well as for votes that just went missing. (Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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(h/t CFP)
Ace reporter, John Solomon, told Lou Dobbs, Zuckerburg money went into some 2000 voting districts to provide the muscle for Dominion. In Detroit, poll workers emanated from a firm owned by a key figure in the ex-mayor's corruption case. More than $1 mill was awarded to P.I.E. Management LLC, a firm created by onetime aide to ex-Mayor and jailbird Kwame Kilpatrick.
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<><> DNC is a domestic criminal organization and must be treated as such.
<><> Every Governor in a State that stopped counting Ballots on Election Night should be under investigation.
<><> The massive vote fraud was collusion by top State Leadership including Governors and most likely AGs and Secretaries of State.
<><> Several states stopping the Ballot Counting on Election night when Trump won in a landslide, was not a mere coincidence.
<><> The Civil Rights of every Michigan citizen were violated when Dead People voted.
<><> Sen candidate John James has a Civil Rights Complaint.
<><> Lin Wood says the whole country will understand that criminals tried to overthrow our govt & many people will be going to prison.
<><> Wood says many people in the US have died at their hands.
<><> Those details will start coming out soon....Wood named: Biden, Obama, George Soros, Clintons, and many others.
<><> Catch the interview over at Gateway Pundit.....it is astounding.
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It is reported in their manual:
<><> The Dominion tallying system is engineered with a WEIGHTED VOTE option.
<><> You enter a percentage that you want to apply to votes in a particular race;
<><> Dominion machines will increase the vote total by that percentage.
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(h/t MattMusson) "I cannot think of any use case where that makes sense except for stealing an election." //// Straightforward data analysis shows that, throughout the Nov 3-4 vote counts, Dominion voting systems:
<><> abruptly and repeatedly deleted votes cast for Donald Trump,
<><> at other times Dominion transferred votes cast for Trump to Biden;
<><> resulting in 3,000,000 lost Trump votes and a 500,000 vote gain to Biden.
Amazingly (gag), these changes never happened in the other direction; there's no data
showing that Dominion software either (A) deleted Biden votes, or, (B) transferred any of them to Trump.
WIKI——Smartmatic (also referred as Smartmatic Corp. or Smartmatic International) or Smartmatic SGO Group is a multinational company that builds and implements electronic voting systems. The company also produces smart cities solutions[buzzword] (including public safety and public transportation), identity management systems for civil registration and authentication products for government applications.
Founding
In 1997,[4] three engineers, Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola and Roger Piñate,[5] began collaborating in a group while working at Panagroup Corp. in Caracas, Venezuela.[6][7][8][9][10][11] Following the 2000 United States presidential election and its hanging chad controversy in Florida, the group proposed to dedicate a system toward electoral functions.[10][12] Smartmatic was officially incorporated on 11 April 2000 in Delaware by Alfredo José Anzola.[13][14][15] Smartmatic then established its headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida with seven employees.[8][9] After receiving funds from private investors,[8] the company then began to expand.
Expansion
Smartmatic was a little-known firm with no experience in voting technology before it was chosen by the Venezuelan authorities to replace the country’s elections machinery ahead of a contentious referendum that confirmed Hugo Chávez as president in August 2004.[16] Before the election, Smartmatic was part of a consortium that included a software company partly owned by a Venezuelan government agency.[17] In March 2005,[16] with a windfall of some $120 million from its first three contracts with Venezuela, Smartmatic then bought the much larger and more established Sequoia Voting Systems, which by 2006 had voting equipment installed in 17 states and the District of Columbia.[16] On August 26, 2005, Sequoia Voting Systems announced[18] that Mr. Jack Blaine would serve in the dual role as President of Sequoia Voting Systems and President of Sequoia’s parent company, Smartmatic.
Sale of Sequoia Voting Systems
On November 8, 2007, Smartmatic announced that it was divesting ownership of the voting machine company Sequoia Voting Systems.[19][20][21] However, in April 2008, Smartmatic still held a $2 million note from SVS Holdings, Inc., the management team which purchased Sequoia Voting Systems from Smartmatic,[22] and at that time Sequoia’s machines still used Smartmatic’s intellectual property.[23][24]
SGO Corporation
Lord Malloch Brown
In 2014, Smartmatic’s CEO Antonio Mugica and British Lord Mark Malloch-Brown announced the launching of the SGO Corporation Limited,[25][26] a holding company based in London whose primary asset is the election technology and voting machine manufacturer. Lord Malloch-Brown became chairman of the board of directors of SGO since its foundation,[27] while Antonio Mugica remained as CEO of the new venture. They were joined on SGO’s board by Sir Nigel Knowles, Global CEO of DLA Piper, entrepreneur David Giampaolo and Roger Piñate, Smartmatic’s COO and co-founder.
The aim of SGO, according to its CEO was “to continue to make investments in its core business (election technology), but it is also set to roll out a series of new ventures based on biometrics, online identity verification, internet voting and citizen participation, e-governance and pollution control.”[28]
Elections
The company was contracted in 2004 for the automation of electoral processes in Venezuela. Since 2004, its election technology has been used in local and national elections in Africa,[29] Argentina,[30] Belgium,[31] Brazil,[32] Chile,[33] Ecuador,[34] Italy[35] Mexico,[36] the Philippines,[37] Singapore,[38] the United Kingdom,[39] the United States[40] and Venezuela.[41]
Africa
Smartmatic has operated in Uganda, Zambia and is still deploying an identity management project in Sierra Leone. In 2010, Smartmatic has worked with the United Nations Development Programme and Zambian authorities to modernise the voter registry using biometric technology. In 2016, they maintained the voter registry ahead of the elections. Smartmatic also assisted the Electoral Commission of Uganda to modernise its election processes to increase the transparency of the 2016 General Elections.[42] The polling company supplied over 30,000 biometric machines across 28,010 polling stations, from the capital of Kampala to remote rural communities to verify the identity of over 15 million people.[29]
Armenia
During the 2017 Armenian parliamentary election, a voter authentication system was used for the first time. The identity of the voter was validated prior to voting using Voter Authentication Devices (VADs), which contained an electronic copy of the voter lists.[43] The introduction of new technologies in the electoral process was strongly supported by the opposition and civil society.[44] Smartmatic provided 4,000 Voter Authentication Devices to the UNDP project “Support to the Electoral Process in Armenia” (SEPA).[45] It was funded by the EU, United States, Germany, United Kingdom, and the Government of Armenia.[46][47]
According to final reports from The International Elections Observation Missions (IEOM) “The VADs functioned effectively and without significant issues.”[44] Observers reported the introduction of the VADs was welcomed by most IEOM interlocutors as a useful tool for building confidence in the integrity of Election Day proceedings.[43] Observers also mentioned in the final report that the late introduction of the VADs could have led to a limited time for testing of equipment and training of operators, stating “Observers noted some problems with scanning of ID documents and fingerprints; however, this did not lead to significant disruptions of voting. IEOM observers noted 9 cases of voters attempting multiple voting that were captured by the VADs. The VADs provided the possibility for voters to be redirected, in case they were registered in another polling station in the same TEC, and this was observed in 55 polling stations.”[48]
Belgium
Electronic voting in Belgium has been utilized since the 1991 Belgian general election, with the country being only one of the few European countries that use electronic voting.[49] In 2012, Belgium approved a ten-year contract with Smartmatic to be the election technology supplier after an evaluation period of three years.[50] In an evaluation by constitutional law researcher Carlos Vegas González, he stated that the printout ballot increased transparency and noted that Smartmatic’s system was independently certified by PricewaterhouseCoopers.[51]
Brazil
Smartmatic provided election technology services to Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) for the Brazilian Municipal Elections, 2012,[32] Brazilian General Election, 2014[52] and Brazilian Municipal Elections, 2016 cycles.
In October 2012, Smartmatic provided election support for data and voice communications to 16 states in Brazil, and the Federal District (FD) (deploying 1,300 Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) satellite devices), as well as support services to voting machines. These services implied hiring and training 14,000 technicians who worked at 480,000 polling stations.[53] In 2014, the Brazilian electoral commission relied on an increased number of BGAN terminals, deployed by Smartmatic, to enable results transmission.[54] BGAN satellite broadband voice and data service was used to connect voting stations to the nation’s electronic voting system.[55][56] ——snip——
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