Posted on 08/29/2024 11:41:18 PM PDT by butterdezillion
Smartmatic runs Venezuela's elections. It's supposed to be fraud-proof. See https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13801/ . The public is allowed to see the machine tabulations at each of the precincts and scannable QR codes give the results which are supposed to be transmitted to the CNE (the body which collects the tabulations and declares the winner) via secure means.
But observers were kicked out of some places and results were delayed after an alleged cyber-attack (see https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/venezuela-top-elections-official-reveals-irregularities-and-lack-of-transparency-in-presidential-elections/ ). However, the opposition to Maduro secured (eventually) about 80% of the actas (tabulation receipts) at the precinct level, and those totals showed the opposition receiving "roughly 6.2 million votes versus Maduro’s 2.7 million". (see https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/02/americas/venezuelas-tally-sheets-intl-latam/index.html) . The opposition uploaded the actas to a website (as the government was SUPPOSED to have done but didn't) - for which they are currently being investigated and prosecuted, along with forgery of official documents, etc (see https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/venezuela-supreme-tribunal-confirms-president-maduros-reelection-amid-impartiality-concerns/ ) Sound familiar?
"Council President Elvis Amoroso on Friday provided updated results from 96.87% of tally sheets, gave Maduro 6.4 million votes and Gonzalez 5.3 million. (see https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/venezuela-supreme-tribunal-confirms-president-maduros-reelection-amid-impartiality-concerns/) These numbers are wildly out-of-whack with what the actual published actas showed. Maduro's government has refused to publish the actual actas to document their totals.
Smartmatic is suing Fox and Newsmax for defamation for claims of potential election fraud in the 2020 US Presidential election. Smartmatic executives have been charged with bribery regarding the 2016 elections in the Philippines (see https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/09/politics/smartmatic-philippines-charges/index.html ).
The Venezuela election theft at the hands of Smartmatic and the Maduro regime's refusal to obey election laws, as well as their removal of the opposition candidate from the ballot and their persecution of anybody who opposed them - including prosecutions claiming that the opposition tried to steal the election - so closely resembles the Deep State playbook in both 2020 and 2024.
My question is why Congress is not requiring Smartmatic to explain how the published actas showing the opposition winning by a landslide in Venezuela were able to be turned into a Maduro win instead. And they should be required to document why any American should believe that the same didn't happen here in 2020 and won't happen in 2024.
Oh shoot. The html didn’t work out. I’ll try reposting as a post to see if I can get those links clickable. Sorry.
Smartmatic runs Venezuela’s elections. It’s supposed to be fraud-proof. See https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13801/ . The public is allowed to see the machine tabulations at each of the precincts and scannable QR codes give the results which are supposed to be transmitted to the CNE (the body which collects the tabulations and declares the winner) via secure means.
But observers were kicked out of some places and results were delayed after an alleged cyber-attack (see https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/venezuela-top-elections-official-reveals-irregularities-and-lack-of-transparency-in-presidential-elections/ ). However, the opposition to Maduro secured (eventually) about 80% of the actas (tabulation receipts) at the precinct level, and those totals showed the opposition receiving “roughly 6.2 million votes versus Maduro’s 2.7 million”. (see https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/02/americas/venezuelas-tally-sheets-intl-latam/index.html) . The opposition uploaded the actas to a website (as the government was SUPPOSED to have done but didn’t) - for which they are currently being investigated and prosecuted, along with forgery of official documents, etc (see https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/venezuela-supreme-tribunal-confirms-president-maduros-reelection-amid-impartiality-concerns/ ) Sound familiar?
“Council President Elvis Amoroso on Friday provided updated results from 96.87% of tally sheets, gave Maduro 6.4 million votes and Gonzalez 5.3 million. (see https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/venezuela-supreme-tribunal-confirms-president-maduros-reelection-amid-impartiality-concerns/) These numbers are wildly out-of-whack with what the actual published actas showed. Maduro’s government has refused to publish the actual actas to document their totals.
Smartmatic is suing Fox and Newsmax for defamation for claims of potential election fraud in the 2020 US Presidential election. Smartmatic executives have been charged with bribery regarding the 2016 elections in the Philippines (see https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/09/politics/smartmatic-philippines-charges/index.html ).
The Venezuela election theft at the hands of Smartmatic and the Maduro regime’s refusal to obey election laws, as well as their removal of the opposition candidate from the ballot and their persecution of anybody who opposed them - including prosecutions claiming that the opposition tried to steal the election - so closely resembles the Deep State playbook in both 2020 and 2024.
My question is why Congress is not requiring Smartmatic to explain how the published actas showing the opposition winning by a landslide in Venezuela were able to be turned into a Maduro win instead. And they should be required to document why any American should believe that the same didn’t happen here in 2020 and won’t happen in 2024.
I believe that CISA says election software in the US is not allowed to connect to the internet. Yet IIRC there were experts warning of US election systems being affected by a potential internet outage. Seems like that is an admission that these systems ARE connected to the web. And the Maduro regime’s claims that the Venezuela election was hacked also affirms that Smartmatic uses the internet.
If an alleged hack (not even proven as far as I know) is all it takes for all the receipts showing a 2-to-1 landslide to be blown off and the election stolen, why even have elections? This is something Congress should ABSOLUTELY be investigating and prosecuting.
Some history on Smartmatic: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/washington/29ballot.html
Note in that article that Smartmatic’s Venezuela connections was acknowledged as a national security concern, and that Smartmatic software folks from Venezuela were brought in to deal with issues in a Chicago election - which involved problems with the transmission of election results.
If the same people as pulled off the Venezuela steal are brought in to deal with US elections, what assurance do we have that even a landslide win won’t be stolen here? Or wasn’t already stolen.
Reid Hoffman is funding Smartmatic. See https://www.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-boosting-major-defamation-lawsuit-133058627.html
How can this crap be legal?
Merrick Garland just got finished issuing a clear threat to any American citizen challenging the results of the 2024 election that they will receive the same attention the DOJ has extended to the 1,500 J6 insurrectionists. When I read about Garland’s proclamation here on FR I thought it had to have come from the Babylon Bee. As bad as Maduro is, Venezuelans have far less to fear from their government than we do from ours. That’s pretty sick. Something needs to be done about it. And fast.
This all came out when they were first I introduced, the votes are counted in decimals then weighted to precincts.
Trump needs to use the Venezuelan elections as a need for reform here.
Who to support? The corrupt socialist president or the CIA-funded grifters? Decisions, decisions.
A clue:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4261648/posts
They’re in on it, or corrupted by those who put it together.
Period.
Captain Obvious says:
Because the manipulation and fraud is identical to Dominion and, if it hasn’t already been shown, a very clear nexus will be demonstrated showing collusion between the two and having them same tech to steal elections.
Ergo…..more proof of stealing American elections…..and, just as important, at every level. Yes, leftist puppet masters stealing elections to install Soetero and Biden is bad. Just as bad are corrupt and compromised state, county, city politicians getting in office to sell out the people
SOMEBODY in Congress must be a fighter.
Although I suppose it’s sort of like the media and Deep State (but I repeat myself). Most politicians need the media to get elected (though that is changing, with this election being a total test of how an election turns out when the media 100% lies in favor of one candidate, and alternative media exposes them). They also need the Deep State to not off them. And now they also need the voting system to NOT cheat them out of office.
With an election coming up my bet is that everybody is afraid to anger the people who REALLY elect our representatives: the heads of the voting tabulation companies.
Somebody at the state level who has already just been elected would be a good candidate to pursue Smartmatic. But that’s why they do attacks on Ken Paxton. And by “they” I mean the RINOs who have been bought by the Deep State.
What state AG would be willing to take this on? If they don’t use the Smartmatic system themselves they could still say the investigation was so that the whole federal . election couldn’t be stolen from them, not just their state election. Right?
The tactics to keep anybody from being able to fight post-steal are the same between Venezuela and here. I wonder if there’s any way that Tucker Carlson could help expose this.
Do you have any links that discuss this? The ranked choice states we have now give these systems an excuse to have in place the ability to weight votes. But when these systems were first introduced we didn’t have any ranked choice elections, IIRC.
With the discrepancies in the Venezuela vote - where a tabulation of 80% of the actas showed Gonzalez receiving about 6.2 million votes but the official tally with 96.87% of actas counted showing him with only 5.3 million, and Maduro’s 2.6 million shown in the 80% of published actas at the same time went to 6.4 million at 96.87% of the actas being (supposedly) counted - means that at least about a million votes were TAKEN AWAY from Gonzalez at a time when more actas were supposedly being counted.
Votes already tabulated can’t just go away unless there is vote flipping and/or some votes being given more weight. Smartmatic needs to be investigated and prosecuted HERE.
All of these companies need to have transparent source code or not be allowed.
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