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Voting technology company Smartmatic has fired off cease-and-desist letters, demanding retractions from Newsmax, One America News Network (OANN), and Fox News.

Smartmatic doesn’t refer to specific instances of allegedly defamatory reporting in its press release. Instead, the firm cites Fox News hosts Jesse Watters, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and guests Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell for helping election conspiracies gain traction.

The company further accuses Fox of promoting a misinformation campaign by publishing “demonstrably false information and defamatory statements.”

Business Insider’s Jacob Shamsian reports:

“Fox News told its millions of viewers and readers that Smartmatic was founded by Hugo Chávez, that its software was designed to fix elections, and that Smartmatic conspired with others to defraud the American people and fix the 2020 U.S. election by changing, inflating, and deleting votes,” Smartmatic’s letter, addressed to Fox News executive vice president and general counsel Lily Fu Claffee, reads.

Smartmatic has also sent retraction demands and legal notices to One America News Network and Newsmax, two right-wing news outlets that pushed conspiracy theories about the company’s role in the election, a Smartmatic spokesperson confirmed to Insider.

Representatives for Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax didn’t immediately respond to Insider’s requests for comment.

“They have no evidence to support their attacks on Smartmatic because there is no evidence. This campaign was designed to defame Smartmatic and undermine legitimately conducted elections,” Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mugica said in a statement. “Our efforts are more than just about Smartmatic or any other company. This campaign is an attack on election systems and election workers in an effort to depress confidence in future elections and potentially counter the will of the voters, not just here, but in democracies around the world.”

 




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  1. Lets see, Mugica was born in 1974 in VENEZULA. He went and graduated from a University in VENEZULA. Smartmatic is 47% owned by VENEZULA. Smartmatics system was used to keep Hugo Chavez in power in 2004. In 2008 a plane crashed happened and killed Smartmatic cofounder, Alfredo Jose Anzola along with drug dealer, Mario Jose Donadi. Seems to be Mugica should just stay quite.

    1. These scumbag smartmatics systems idiots should throw themselves at the mercy of the court. What they did is a federal crime. Don’t know what the duration of jail time is but it can’t be long enough.

      1. Precisely! I hope it sues when its cease and desist letters are challenged. Then defendants must get an honest judge who’ll allow discovery and that all relevant evidence be admitted. The judge should also allow subpoenas for all principles and make them testify under oath in open court.

        The defendants should also have a team of junkyard dog lawyers who’ll go for Smartmatic’s jugular. Also, just maybe they can drag in Dominion by the scruff of its neck.

      2. Imagine the “discovery” that would occur from the Roger Stone Civil case he swears he is filing…

        …it will never happen as far as any PUBLIC release of ANYTHING discovered against intelligence

        CIA…

        …baby

    2. Read the law here:
      https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim

      Then, you decide. IMHO, both treason and sedition were committed by Smartmatic, Dominion, and various USA Citizens, perhaps by both political parties, to overthrow the government through election fraud.

      Those who did the fraud truly do not understand how angry American Citizens are because of their vote being manipulated. Articles 9, 10 and 2 of the Bill of Rights preserve final authority of law to the Citizens, superior to all other laws.
      Read and understand exactly those articles, then make your own decisions about what could happen, with full legal Constitutional power.

    3. Yes, they missed the fact that nobody has claimed Chavez invented it. They stated it was invented FOR him. To help him. They mix their words.

  2. That’s GREAT!!! Now, Smartmatic can be legally MADE to go through their entire software programming and top executives can be questioned under oath to confirm that there was no vote rigging or changing of votes from Trump to Biden. I wonder if they really thought this through.

    1. Force them to turn over their software for forensic analysis. The analysis in Antrium county already shows Dominion machines were rigged

      1. they have some of the machines now and a mich judge has let the ig have them. he said they were 68.8% rigged . more is coming out this week. stay tuned.crooks

        1. I hope they speed it up so dementia Joe doesn’t get inaugurated. 80M votes for a corrupt 47 year career politician with dementia? Unbelievable.

      2. Plus the forensics from Mich were ordered released and they too show vote switching and a lot of other internet traffic. Thought they had no access to the internet. All it would take is for a cell phone to be made a wifi hot spot and aha.

  3. My questions WHY IN A HELL USA ELECTION IS USING VENEZUALIEN COMUNIST MACHINES? WHY???WHO APPROVED OF IT AND WHY????????????

    1. They were used in several states in 2012, thus Obominable knew he would be reelected. They just keep changing their companies name. Sounds just like the screwy satan, oboma, soros…

  4. Every executive that works or has ever worked at smartmatic should be arrested and under eminence interrogation as we speak! They are crime and should be executed for their crimes!

  5. I would say, bring it on, Smartmatic. In court proceedings in America including a civil lawsuit, there is something called discovery. That means the defendants have the right to open your books and open your codes and everything else they need of yours to use in their defense you jerks are trying to hide by this intimidation of true journalists and lawyers. I’m betting if there was nothing to hide, you would not be doing this and if there was nothing there, Giuliani and Powell would not be sticking their necks out by saying there was.

  6. Well Isn’t this special ! The perpetrators calling out the Victims…. that is right out of the Communist and Democrat “ Play Book” ! Schmmm ! Wouldn’t it be fabulous if they got a knock on their doors and they were all escorted to GITMO !

  7. This company has been invited to answer questions about their system here and so far all we’ve heard is crickets!!! Now they put out cease and desist letters!!! How about answering some questions about your system if there truly are no issues!!!

  8. This guy is hoping to change what we all saw . He wants us to believe that the election machines can’t do what the Dominion voting machines operator manual says it can do , even create a new ballot. Nice try!!! Even without the Dominion machines which by the way showed set percentages all benefiting Biden ranging from 2.5 percent all night long election night. They showed huge spikes where hundreds of thousands of votes showed up 90 percent for Biden.
    There are at least a thousand swore affidavits of Trucks dumping ballots from other states. Ballots with watermarks on them. Ballots with no mailing creases on them. Ballots with no signature or address on envelope. And the usual suspects voted illegal aliens, dead people, counties that had over vote totals ( more votes then registered voters) the Dominion system has a history of known corruption?

  9. If no body has any evidence it’s because they are not allowed to check the machine out to see if it has been re- programed and /or they have machines off somewhere else which may be the reason for ballots showing up late such as the ballots counted as they were delivered before election day as they do in Washington. They have two week to count ballots before election day and cat change them then. They showed us one time that they change ballots when it looks like the voter didn’t know what they were doing so they made a new ballot for them people insted of throwing it away as the ballot says will happen.

  10. We need to secure all elections; Both State & Federal. I see 1 way to do this; Have I) national Computer system nationwide OFF/grid. With our software. 2) All ballots have a serial # on them that is read and recorded / verified against the registered voter data base / duplicate entries. Voter Database needs to be verified to be accurate 30 days before any election; any dead or other questionable issue’s addressed, and Laws restricting such actions removed from the books. 1080P camera’s placed above all counting machines OPEN in real time to the public 24 hrs as long as machines are running. This might help put an end to the BS and give the public a bit of confidence again, Because you are letting us see what’s going on. QUIT TRYING TO BS US, WE are on to you.

  11. FU’m counter sue for access to software & codes plus get a court order to sieze all machines and software used in the election for forensic exam in order to prove claim of fraud. Also have all company exec’s, software engineers and company personnel who worked on machines in the election subpoenaed.

  12. My comment is that the company is concerned that several news companies are getting too close to the truth and is trying to intimidate them, a typical liberal/socialist tactic.

  13. When there is no factual proof of what has been said about the company,. by these organizations , they should be taken to court and made to pay for the slander they have spread, causing widespread unrest at best.

    1. The 23-page report was published soon after by Allied Security Operations Group. It includes expert analysis from Russell Ramsland, a former Republican Party candidate who works with the group.
      Ramsland’s team concluded that Dominion’s system “intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors.”
      Dominion didn’t respond to a request for comment.
      Allied Security Operations Group- ASOG is a group of globally engaged professionals who come from various disciplines to include Department of Defense, Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Our employees and contractors care about this world and strive to make the international community a better place for all. https://asog.us/

    2. Starting in 1997, Smartmatic systems were developed in Venezuela with built-in functionality permitting precinct administrators to override security features it appeared to incorporate. Among the extraordinary privileges it gave administrators were abilities to:

      • shave votes continuously from one candidate to another;
      • batch ballots for later “adjudication” but which instead became a pool of votes that the administrator could simply assign to the candidate of choice;
      • generate blank ballots.
    3. Three forms of evidence[iv] backing these claims dovetail perfectly;

      • Documentation of extraordinary privileges Dominion provides administrators;
      • Affidavits describing voters’ and workers’ experiences that match exactly what they would experience in precincts being gooned by the measures I describe;[v]
      • Data (such as that below)[vi] expressing outrageous statistical oddities (e.g., strings of thousands of sequential Biden votes that occur with quadrillion-to-1 improbability, ballot processing velocity spikes that were physically impossible given available site equipment) that coincide with windows of intense intimidation of and interference with those observing the voting and counting.
  14. Hmmmm Ya ever notice that all the Democrats and their “comrades” never refer to the United States as being a Republic? They always use the term Democracy. Anyone who knows the difference also knows that a Democracy is just a fancy word for a form of Socialism.

    1. Democracy is Mob Rule and it’s exactly what the DemonRats want.

      Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for lunch.
      A Republic, the sheep is armed!

  15. December 14, 2020
    The 23-page report was published soon after by Allied Security Operations Group. It includes expert analysis from Russell Ramsland, a former Republican Party candidate who works with the group.
    Ramsland’s team concluded that Dominion’s system “intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors.”
    Dominion didn’t respond to a request for comment.
    Allied Security Operations Group- ASOG is a group of globally engaged professionals who come from various disciplines to include Department of Defense, Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Our employees and contractors care about this world and strive to make the international community a better place for all. https://asog.us/

  16. Massive trackable changes of votes as seen in CNN video??? And these LIARS want to claim that there is NO evidence. My LYING EYES. I could see it. So what do we have here? Just like always. The OLD BILL CLINTON defense. DENY, deny, DENY, deny, and all of those who are your puppets will believe you. Well most of them. A few are getting smart. So where is the ATTORNEY GENERAL to file charges against these very people. oH, THAT IS RIGHT. Barr has continued to prove he is a WOOSE and done NOTHING. So he is going home for Christmas.
    Do you think the next SWAMP CRITTER will do better? God help us.

  17. Amazing how light chases out the darkness! That’s why, even if the D does loose this election, it is of the utmost importance that he & others continue the fight to straighten out our elections which may include eliminating use of computers because of their built-in complexity to operate & verify. All it takes is one rogue software developer, writer or even installer… what “commoner” would know or recognize? What would it take to prove any errors to a judgeship? Way too difficult, we need to KISS all this goodbye & use simple pen & ink & locked boxes

    1. They already proved it, I don’t remember where it was for sure though, Wisconsin or Michigan, I think. But they ran an equal number of ballots through for Trump and Biden and it came out as 26% for Biden.

  18. Ok, so this should open Discovery, NOW it’s up to Smartmatic to PROVE these allegations are FALSE!
    They’re just digging their hole deeper!

  19. George Soros Antagonist rising from the deep again! The unelected leader of the DNC, the best political criminals money can buy!

  20. If you miss the America of old, you need to grow a pair, and sign up for the fight, CW2! The only way at this point to solve the problem, by getting rid of the criminal organization DNC, they are everything that is wrong in this Country! They cheat elections, they are responsible for Covid, they try to destroy the Constitution, the elect foreigners to help destroy America within, they are Communists who must be destroyed like roaches!

  21. President Trump, should declare martial law, bring in the military to keep the peace, then use military to round-up every free air breathing DNC office holder, jail them, and send all DNC voters to camps to be reprogrammed! Them MAGA!

  22. Smartmatic should welcome the investigation with open arms if they were honest, moral and had nothing to hide. Honest elections are for the people of the world.

  23. So, Trump announced this morning that the Electors, state AGs and Governors who allowed it have committed Crimes against our Elections.
    Next Up: Insurrection Act and Enacting, EO 13848.
    Trump has allowed the shoplifters to leave the store, NOW they are Officially GUILTY of TREASON!

  24. The DNC allowed a Communist foreign born individual to become POTUS and they knowingly supported him! That is treason!

  25. Biden is a senile old man that has a Chinaman’s hand up his ass and speakers to the American stupid population aka DNC voters!

  26. The DNC is basically a foreign communist cult, that began under the Obama Administration! Obama is a gay man living with a transvestite that can kick his ass! She is an ex college linebacker that played at Oregon State! Obama is also a figment of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrns imagination!

  27. And yet we have several independent companies/individuals stating for a fact that the voting machines could be easily manipulated (https://noqreport.com/2020/11/12/it-expert-finds-multitude-of-flaws-in-dominion-voting-systems-solutions-allowing-easy-manipulation-of-vote-tallies/); and here (https://citymatters.hivebrite.com/news/376034); and here (https://leohohmann.com/2020/11/13/software-engineers-report-dominion-flipped-minimum-of-138000-votes-from-trump-to-biden-in-michigan/); and here ((https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/antrim-county-michigan-forensics-audit-results-dominion-voting-machines-released/).

    ).

  28. Taking flack only means that you are OVER THE TARGET, ALL voting machines should be BANNED from our elections, PERIOD! Show up on ELECTION DAY with your ID and vote a PAPER BALLOT if you TRULY want an HONEST election!

  29. So their “demand” should go on deaf ears. Notice that they couldn’t give an instance of “defamatory” reporting. They just demand that it stops. These machines should never be used again.

  30. If censoring the truth at the source doesn’t work. You can always sue to silence those who are disseminating it. If you can steal a national election in the United States of America. The sky is the limit for potential fraud. Since it appears that nothing is going to come of the never ending revelations in this landslide of corruption.

  31. Smartmatic should have to PROVE they were not initially established in Venezuelan during Chavez elections and there IS SWORN TESTIMONY by witness who was there for development…

    …Smartmatic should have to prove he lied

    What they really are saying that is true is “smartmatic” wasn’t their NAME back then!

  32. We had FOUR YEARS OF “demonstrably false information and defamatory statements by just about every Democrat and new person in the entire country. And not a single time were they threatened with legal action. WHY NOT? This is part of the charade. Schiff or Schitt as I call him, lied and lied and lied. So did the Chinese puppet Swalwell.
    It would appear that our side has surrendered as indicted by INFOR WARS STATEMENTS.
    What a shame. We are just getting to the point where we are going to actually fight. Are you Nathan Hale or are you Benedict Arnold.

  33. The Smartmatic software is bad enough, but even worse are the state governments who pay large sums of taxpayer money to use it. It has been long known that the systems are easily corruptible by corrupt election officials, which is why it is chosen by corrupt governments. The governments are not forced to use these systems.

  34. These Voting Machine company’s are just the fall guys or fronts for the really guilty company in charge of building and placing the machines the C.I.A. under Hammer and Scorecard

  35. By all means let them sue…..and make sure the entire trial is televised so that the American people can hear all the evidence….We the people, already know Trump won this election with a historic voter total…and anyone who actually believes Biden Could ever win 80,000,000 real votes is as senile and brainless, as Biden is !!!

  36. This is the typical tactic of a bully. For whatever reason (maybe the fact that they actually cheated), they have dodged every effort to examine the machines and software. They are trying to threaten anyone who challenges them. The way to handle a bully is to call his bluff and punch him in his nose, metaphorically speaking.

  37. Then guys, just imagine this scenario, maybe Smartmatic and Dominion HAVE been honest about their equiptment! That leaves a totally democrat controlled consperiecy lead by thier party controlled insiders in control of all questionable counties in these so-called swing states run by democrats, Georgia being an exception, but with the knowledge that Georgia’s so-called “Republican” Governor and Sec. of State, have China as their largest trading partner! Think about it folks, these sleazy politicians are more concerned about lining their pockets than the welfare of this country! President Trump was the only person man enough to to stand in their way and put us American people first, and ahead of these scumbags! Mitch McConnel even went so far as to congratulate(!) Dementia Joe “the gaff” Biden for “winning” this last obviously rigged and fraudulent election thereby proving (at least to me) his affiliation to D.C. insiders and his fellow RINO’S, far more important to him while blatantly disregarding any concern for us American Patriots, because him and his D.C. cronies are more important to him than us dweeb American Patriots! Will we ever again be President Ronald Reagan’s “Shinning City on the Hill”? Or will we become the next Venezuela, under the socialist/communist control that the formerly democrat party has been promoting along with their pathetically gullible and brainwashed ignorant lemming voters and followers! Have a nice day…. COMRADE!

  38. Who wrote the headline of this article There is NO reason for a “legal notice” to be issued by letter. This was a form of INTIMIDATION that was sure to NOT work as Powell and the other lawyers are smarter than that. They have PROOF of what they say and that is sufficient to win any fake lawsuite.
    STOP with the junk headlines.

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