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George Soros’ Smartmatic/Sequoia Voting Machines Conflict of Interest

Hello, I am a concerned citizen from [ ] County. Recently I discovered that there appears to be a conflict of interest between the chairman of the company that makes some of the voting machines being used in [ ] County, and a free and fair elections process. In this document I will show how this conflict of interest can be proven, and that in the interest of having accurate election results, [ ] County should move immediately to utilize paper ballots for the 2016 General Election.

Let’s begin...

1. Who is George Soros?

George Soros is a multi-billionaire who has a history of donating millions of dollars to left-wing candidates and causes. In this election year, Soros gave $9,500,000 to the Priorities USA Action super PAC,1 which is working to get Hillary Clinton elected.2,3 (Additionally, his son Alex Soros gave $1,000,000.)1 As of 10/26/2016, the Priorities USA Action website has a large photo of Hillary Clinton on its main page4 and their intention is clearly to support Hillary for POTUS.

2. George Soros runs Open Society Foundations.

Soros is founder/chairman of his own foundation, the Open Society Foundations,5 which is Soros’ philanthropic arm designed to advance his political interests.6 These political interests overwhelmingly skew leftist/progressive.

3. Mark Malloch-Brown has deep ties to George Soros.

Malloch-Brown is currently listed as a “Global Board Member” on the Open Society Foundations website. He has previously served as “vice‐chairman of George Soros’s investment funds as well as his Open Society Foundations philanthropy.”7,11 In 1995, Malloch-Brown was a founding member of the International Crisis Group.8 George Soros “jump-started the organisation with a large grant” of $2,500,000 and continued to support the group with contributions.9

4. Mark Malloch-Brown is chairman of Smartmatic, a company that provides voting machines.

Malloch-Brown is listed as chairman on Smartmatic’s website.10,11 Smartmatic is a “voting technology and services provider” that has “offered technology and support services to the Electoral Commissions of 307 counties in 16 States”12 in previous elections.

5. Smartmatic has a history of involvement in questionable election results.

In 2004, Smartmatic deployed voting machines to Venezuela for a presidential recall referendum.13 This election was statistically analyzed by Cordero and Marquez in International Statistical Review, who found the results had substantial irregularities, with an estimated double digit discrepancy in the final percentage result.14 Further analyses published in Statistical Science have investigated the election result,15 concluding that it was likely that election fraud had occurred.16 Leaked international cables show State Department officials discussing the allegations of fraud and corruption surrounding Smartmatic in Venezuela elections.17

6. Smartmatic bought Sequoia, then sold it after the transaction was scrutinized by the US government.

In 2005, Smartmatic purchased Sequoia Voting Systems.18 During a March 2006 primary election in Illinois, election problems with Sequoia machines raised allegations of a possible “international conspiracy to subvert the electoral process in the United States of America.”19 After the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States investigated Smartmatic’s takeover of Sequoia, and the possible national security implications,20 Smartmatic announced their intent to sell Sequoia in late 2006, and divested of Sequoia in late 2007.21

7. Smartmatic is likely still clandestinely involved with Sequoia voting machines, via retained intellectual property rights.

After being purchased away from Smartmatic in 2007 by a group of executives, Jack Blaine, the CEO of Sequoia, told Chicago election officials that the divestiture made Sequoia fully independent from Smartmatic. This turned out to be false, and Blaine was forced to walk back his statements. Smartmatic still retained legal ownership of the intellectual property used in all Sequoia voting machines.22 Currently Sequoia branded machines are owned by Dominion Voting Systems Corp., but the intellectual property is retained by Smartmatic.23

8. Sequoia is being used in [ ] County.

According to VerifiedVoting.org, the voting machine technologies in use for [ ] County for the 2016 General Election are the [ ] – all Sequoia branded machines.24 The [ ] is equipped with a “voter-verified paper audit trail,”25 but election fraud is likely to be caught long after the act has already occurred and the party that benefited from the fraud is in power.

9. Voting machines in US election year 2016 are susceptible to fraud and cannot be trusted.

In the 2016 Democratic primary election of Massachusetts, between candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, there are documented vote count discrepancies connected to computerized voting machine technology that favor Clinton beyond the statistical margin of error. Vote tallies from computer voting machines differed from exit polls by 8%, well beyond the calculated margin of error for exit poll difference of 5.4%.26 In all eleven cases of exit poll discrepancies that exceed the margin of error for the 2016 Democratic primary contest, the discrepancies favor Hillary Clinton.26

A recent analysis by Stanford University students confirms that “the data show[s] lower support for Secretary Clinton in exit polls than the final results would suggest” and that the “[discrepancies] in states without paper voting trails in considerably larger.”27 Clinton over-performed in vote counts only in states that are vulnerable to electronic hacking.28 For example, all of the voting machines in use in Lousiana are the Sequoia “AVC Advantage,” with “anomalies that favored Clinton in 85% of the counties.”28

Princeton Computer Science Professor Andrew Appel says of the Sequoia “AVC Advantage” machine,“it would not be in the slightest difficult for a moderately determined group or individual to mount a vote-stealing attack that would be successful and undetectable.”29 There is already video from the 2016 General Election showing voters using touchscreen machines only to find their vote switches to a different candidate.30

10. [ ] County should invoke the conflict of interest clause.

In light of the above discoveries, [ ] County should immediately invoke the conflict of interest clause in their contract with Dominion Voting Systems Corp., as it is likely the Sequoia voting machines have been compromised by a partisan entity (i.e., George Soros via Mark Malloch-Brown). With Smartmatic no longer owning the brand, but continuing to own the intellectual property, there appears to be an effort to obscure the ongoing ties between Smartmatic and Sequoia voting machines, in order to provide plausible deniability. The results of the 2016 General Election are too important to the future of the United States to allow such a possibility of fraud to occur.

Sources

1 https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cmte=C00495861&cycle=2016

Archived: http://archive.is/MyvBI

2 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/20/hillary-clintons-main-super-pac-has-raised-132-million-a-third-came-from-six-wealthy-allies/

Archived: http://archive.is/fDX2K

3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/super-pac-makes-big-play-to-lift-hillary-clinton-in-primary-states/2016/02/11/39aca8dc-d019-11e5-abc9-ea152f0b9561_story.html

Archived: http://archive.is/X8oNv

4 http://prioritiesusaaction.org/

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5 https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about

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6 http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/08/17/hacked-soros-memo-admits-channel-money-political-purposes/

Archived: http://archive.is/NqefY

7 https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/people/mark-malloch-brown

Archived: http://archive.is/MVTFH

8 https://www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/history

Archived: http://archive.is/2vSF0

9 https://d2071andvip0wj.cloudfront.net/fifteen-years-on-the-frontline.pdf

Archived: https://www.pdf-archive.com/2016/10/27/fifteen-years-on-the-frontline/

10 https://www.smartmatic.com/about/our-team/

Archived: http://archive.is/2jlzx

11 http://www.smartmatic.com/about/our-team/detail/lord-mark-malloch-brown/

Archived: http://archive.is/y1Vut

12 http://www.smartmatic.com/case-studies/article/united-states-elections/

Archived: http://archive.is/QBsmr

13 https://www.smartmatic.com/case-studies/article/venezuela-s-elections-2004-2015/

Archived: http://archive.is/cnVcE

14 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-5823.2006.tb00301.x/abstract

Archived: http://archive.is/tzlpf

15 http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&page=toc&handle=euclid.ss/1330437927

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16 http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1330437935

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17 https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06CARACAS2063_a.html

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18 http://www.smartmatic.com/news/article/sequoia-voting-systems-and-smartmatic-combine-to-form-a-global-leader/

Archived: http://archive.is/nbtrJ

19 https://web.archive.org/web/20130723232644/http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=4065162

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20 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/washington/29ballot.html

Archived: http://archive.is/Znbun

21 http://www.smartmatic.com/news/article/smartmatic-announces-the-sale-of-its-subsidiary-sequoia-voting-systems/

Archived: http://archive.is/dpuRQ

22 http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6005

Archived: http://archive.is/W7AQi

23 http://truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/90265:on-heels-of-dieboldpremier-purchase-canadian-firm-also-acquires-sequoia-lies-about-chavezties-in-announcement

Archived: http://archive.is/4yURE

24 https://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/#year/2016/state/6

Archived Image: http://s13.postimg.org/3yospnrsn/Capture.png

25 https://www.verifiedvoting.org/resources/voting-equipment/sequoia/avc-edge/

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26 http://www.election-justice-usa.org/Democracy_Lost_Update1_EJUSA.pdf

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27 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6mLpCEIGEYGYl9RZWFRcmpsZk0/view?pref=2&pli=1

Archived: https://www.pdf-archive.com/2016/10/28/geijsel-cortesbarragan-2016-a-dishonest-election/

28 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SdmBLFW9gISaqOyyz_fATgaFupI2-n6vWx80XRGUVBo/edit

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29 https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/appel-evt09.pdf

Archived: https://www.pdf-archive.com/2016/10/28/appel-evt09/

30 https://youtu.be/St25jdBdtmE