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Smartmatic reached a settlement with One America News Network Tuesday in its lawsuit that accused the conservative broadcaster of peddling disinformation about the voting machine company's technology in regards to the 2020 presidential election. The big picture: The lawsuit was one of several Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems filed against conservative-leaning networks and pro-Trump figures, accusing them of broadcasting baseless conspiracy theories about their voting equipment and software. The suit accused OANN of "falsely" stating that Smartmatic "rigged" the 2020 presidential election for President Biden in key swing states, despite Los Angeles County being the only place in the U.S....

Online voter turnout in Russia’s presidential election on the federal platform has reached 90%, according to the portal on online vote monitoring, APA reports citing TASS. As of 9:27 p.m. Moscow time (6:27 p.m. GMT), as many as 4,268,291 ballots were issued to voters in 28 Russian regions, who had applied for voting online. Thus, voter turnout on the federal platform of electronic voting was 90%. Residents of Moscow can vote on Moscow’s own platform and were not required to apply for remote voting beforehand.

The incumbent Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, who is vying for the country’s top office as an independent candidate, has cast his electronic vote in the presidential election, APA reports quoting TASS. The published video footage shows Putin walking to a computer in his office, casting his vote and then smiling and waving at the camera. The computer monitor displayed a standard notification for a successfully cast vote.

The Philippine Commission on Elections has banned Smartmatic Philippines Inc. from the nation’s elections, ending 13 years of the company being the main provider of election technology to the nation. The decision revolved around allegations of bribery that claim commission chairman Andres Bautista was paid off to ensure Smartmatic won the contract for the 2016 elections, according to the Philippine edition of CNN. Bautista has denied the allegations. Although Smartmatic argued it has followed the rules, noting that there are nothing but allegations against it, the commission was unmoved. “Although these allegations, stemming from incidents potentially spanning at least three...

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Fox Corp and Fox News on Tuesday settled a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million, averting a high-profile trial putting one of the world's top media companies in the crosshairs over its coverage of vote-rigging claims in the 2020 U.S. election. The settlement was announced by Fox, Dominion and the judge in the case at the 11th hour, with a 12-person jury selected on Tuesday morning and the case poised to kick off with opening statements on Tuesday afternoon. Dominion had sought $1.6 billion in damages in the lawsuit filed in 2021, with Delaware Superior Court Judge...

Smartmatic is being investigated by the US Department of Justice for its alleged payoffs in the Phillapeans to get official contracts and oversee the 2016 presidential election there- through an intermediary. The Biden-led agency is investigating whether the voting machine company Smartmatic engaged in corrupt business practices in the Philippines. Yes. That is a foreign country- the agency continues to ignore calls from US activists and concerned voters to do the same in the United States. “DOJ Investigates Electronic Voting Company Smartmatic for Allegedly Bribing Election Officials in the Philippines,” Shane Trejo reported for Big League Politics on Monday, adding:...

In New York, a state court ruled on Tuesday that Smartmatic could pursue its $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit alleging that Fox News Network, Rudolph Giuliani, and others falsely claimed that the maker of electronic voting systems had helped rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election in favor of Democrat Joe Biden. New York Supreme Court Justice David Cohen rejected the requests of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation (FOXA.O), anchor Maria Bartiromo, and former anchor Lou Dobbs for dismissal of Smartmatic’s claims against them. Moreover, Cohen revealed that Smartmatic could pursue some claims against Giuliani, who worked as an attorney for former Republican...

In November 2021 Smartmatic, an election technology and ballot counting company, sued Newsmax and OAN. This followed their previous lawsuit against FOX News. The former President of Smartmatic, Lord Mark Malloch, currently leads the George Soros Open Society Foundation. In August 2017 Smartmatic Director Antonio Mugica admitted during that the Smartmatic machines and software were tampered with and created at least one million phantom votes in the national elections in Venezuela. Another voting machine firm, Dominion Voting Systems Corp, has brought similar lawsuits against conservatives. The Gateway Pundit was sued by far-left Dominion executive Eric Coomer, a committed Trump-hater, for...

CodeMonkeyZ's comments are in italics below: "At the time, we could just speculate about what the innocent election worker did with the EMS data using the laptop. However, thanks to GREAT REPORTING from Mimi Nguyen Ly of the Epoch Times, we have a statement from Gwinnett County spokesman Joe Sorenson that the innocent election worker was “filtering” the EMS election data using a laptop because Excel is not authorized for use on the Dominion machines." "the innocent election worker", yeah right. EMS = Election Management System, the general tabulating software database system where all the Dominion results would be fed...

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is expanding his legal offensive against Dominion Voting Systems, now taking aim at another voting machine company, Smartmatic, as he continues to push allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. Lindell's legal team prepared a new complaint for a federal court in Minnesota, dated Thursday, which accuses Dominion and Smartmatic of waging a "lawfare campaign," in which they allegedly are "weaponizing the judicial system and the litigation process to silence dissent, unpopular beliefs, or facts inconveniently out-of-line with mainstream groupthink." Lindell, an ally of former President Donald Trump who has insisted the Republican will be reinstated...

OANN CEO Robert Herring offers Lou Dobbs a new home on the competing cable news network. One America News Network CEO Robert Herring seemingly offered a job to former-Fox Business host, Lou Dobbs, after his former network fired him following a lawsuit from Smartmatic, one of the voting machine companies accused of being complicit in widespread fraud in the 2020 election. “One America News would like Lou Dobbs to get in contact with us,” wrote Herring. “We may have a position available for you in which you wouldn’t be censored for speaking the truth!” Dobbs’ show was cancelled by Fox...

A voting technology company is suing Fox News, three of its top hosts and two former lawyers for Donald Trump – Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell – for $2.7bn. The lawsuit charges that the defendants conspired to spread false claims that the company helped “steal” the US presidential election, which was in fact fairly won by Joe Biden. The 285-page complaint filed on Thursday in New York state court by Florida-based Smartmatic USA is one of the largest libel suits ever undertaken. Dominion Voting Systems sues Giuliani for $1.3bn over baseless election claims Read more On 25 January, a rival...

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...

When the Supreme Court of Chief Justice John Roberts rejected the lawsuit of the state of Texas and other states that said the election rules in contested battleground states like Pennsylvania were unconstitutionally written, SCOTUS ruled that it could not prove Texas or its citizens suffered harm by the processes by which another state selects electors and writes election rules. This of course is nonsense. Supreme Court Justices are like field goal kickers. They have one job. In the case of SCOTUS, it is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. We are a union...

Anyone for Chinese disinformation? While the deep and its llies among the legacy media and socialist Democrats continue to talk about “Russia, Russia, Russia,” partially in light of the recent and ongoing cybe attack on U.S. institutions, the fact remains that our greatest threat is from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its ongoing penetration of U.S. institutions from business to higher education to national defense to, yes, our elections. The Chinese knew what they were doing when Vice President Joe Biden brought son Hunter Biden with him on Ait Force Two for a state visit and awarded Hunter with...

Election software company Smartmatic is threatening to sue a number of networks for defamation, just days after serving a legal notice to attorney Sidney Powell. Smartmatic sent legal notices to media companies Newsmax, OANN, and Fox. In a press release, the company’s CEO says the networks “have no evidence” of their claims that Smartmatic is potentially involved in election fraud. He says “This campaign was designed to defame Smartmatic and undermine legitimately conducted elections.” The company is demanding retractions. Newsmax issued a statement about their coverage on Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems: “Newsmax would like to clarify its news coverage...

SOURCE — Politico An election systems worker driven into hiding by death threats has filed a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s campaign, two of its lawyers and some conservative media figures and outlets. Eric Coomer, security director at the Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems, said he wants his life back after being named in false charges as a key actor in “rigging” the election for Joe Biden. His lawsuit, filed Tuesday in district court in Denver County, Colorado, names the Trump campaign, lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, the website Gateway Pundit, Colorado conservative activist Joseph...

Since election day, various guests, attorneys and elected officials have appeared on Newsmax TV and offered opinions and claims about Smartmatic and Dominion Systems, both companies that offer voting software in the U.S. Newsmax would like to clarify its news coverage and note it has not reported as true certain claims made about these companies. There are several facts our viewers and readers should be aware. Newsmax has found no evidence either Dominion or Smartmatic owns the other, or has any business association with each other. We have no evidence Dominion uses Smartmatic’s software or vice versa.

Newsmax caves to Dominion and Smartmatic legal threats…Posted by Kane on December 21, 2020 9:41 pmNEWS JUNKIES -- CHECK OUT OUR HOMEPAGENewsmax caves to #Dominion and #Smartmatic. Goes further than complying with cease and desist; basically reading a press release for them. Horrifying.No lawyer will advise their client to do this. Especially, while they allege they’ve reported nothing.pic.twitter.com/Tlg3aoftkj— Ali 🟧 #StopTheSteal (@ali) December 21, 2020 “Newsmax has found no evidence that either Dominion or Smartmatic owns the other or has any business association with each other. We have no evidence that Dominion uses Smartmatic software or vice versa. No evidence...