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Filing: Smartmatic Executives Deleted Data, Messages Related To Lawsuit Over Election Reporting
The Federalist ^ | 5/22/25 | Shawn Fleetwood

Posted on 05/22/2025 6:34:01 AM PDT by CFW

Senior officials at the voting software company Smartmatic ordered the deletion and doctoring of evidence relevant to its ongoing defamation case against Fox News, a court filing made on Wednesday alleges.

In its new memorandum filed with the New York Supreme Court, Fox News claimed that multiple Smartmatic officials — including its CEO — are complicit in the spoliation of records pertaining to the ongoing legal saga between the two companies.

As The Federalist’s Beth Brelje previously reported, “Smartmatic seeks $2.7 billion from Fox in a years-long defamation case in which it accuses Fox of reporting without evidence that the company’s software had a role in rigging the 2020 election. This, the company has said in court fillings, caused Smartmatic to lose business.”

Specifically, Fox alleges in its new complaint, “On the eve of filing this lawsuit, and while the U.S. Department of Justice was investigating Smartmatic and its executives for bribery and corruption, Smartmatic’s CEO Antonio Mugica, in writing, ordered Smartmatic’s President Roger Piñate Jr. — who has since been federally indicted for those crimes — to delete WhatsApp mobile messages discussing critical damages issues surrounding the outlandish $2.7 billion the company planned to seek from Fox.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cheating; elections; fraud; lawsuit; rigging; smartmatic; tampering

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The is a doctrine in law (spoliation of evidence) that if a party to a lawsuit is found to have deleted documents, emails, etc pertaining to a case, then the evidence can be deemed to be harmful to their case even without knowing what the documents or emails may contain.

It will be interesting to see how the court rules in this case.

1 posted on 05/22/2025 6:34:01 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

“Baseless” is the new leftist narrative.


2 posted on 05/22/2025 6:52:24 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: CFW

Can obstruction of justice apply to civil cases?

This should disqualify the company from ever being involved in an election in the US.


3 posted on 05/22/2025 7:17:29 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

All voting machines should be barred from all elections.


4 posted on 05/22/2025 7:45:06 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

The regulations already say that counting systems cannot be connectable to the internet but everybody knows they all are. The enforcers are CISA, the same group that declared the 2020 election the most secure in history, iirc.


5 posted on 05/22/2025 8:06:25 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

The only answer is no machines and public, day-of counting of day-of voting.


6 posted on 05/22/2025 8:08:04 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: CFW

My guess is they were assuming a Democrat would be running the country when they did this, making them above the law.


7 posted on 05/22/2025 8:08:48 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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