Drug cartels have been a huge part of human trafficking, drug trafficking, crime and corruption here.
Now we have proof that Venezuelan drug cartels, in league with their Communist government, were using vote counting machines to throw elections not only in Venezuela, but here too.
Laura Aboli reports:
Who Let a Foreign Regime Into America’s Voting System?
A little-known U.S. diplomatic cable, classified by the Embassy in Caracas and later released, tells us something extraordinary: Smartmatic, the company that helped Hugo Chávez survive a highly contested recall vote in 2004, quietly entered the United States election system immediately afterward.
The cable states plainly:
• Smartmatic is Venezuelan-owned, despite public claims of U.S. origin.
• Its ownership structure was deliberately hidden behind shell companies in the Netherlands and Barbados.
• Its rapid rise was fuelled by involvement in Chávez’s disputed elections.
• Its machines were widely suspected of being susceptible to fraud.
• And as soon as that job was done, Smartmatic shifted focus to the United States through its subsidiary, Sequoia.
So we have a foreign-aligned election company, financially tied to a hostile regime, embedding itself into the American electoral infrastructure, right as the U.S. entered a period of radical political transformation.
Smartmatic’s founders moved corporate headquarters to Florida, but most operational control stayed in Caracas. Silent partners included individuals closely tied to the Venezuelan government. Investments came from Chávez-linked funds. Even children of senior regime officials were involved in its registration and corporate handling.
• Foreign-developed code was counting American votes.
• The vulnerabilities were known before Smartmatic was allowed into U.S. elections.
• Private companies with opaque ownership avoided the rigorous audits that would detect manipulation.
This is what election interference looks like.
This is one of the reasons Trump is pressuring Venezuela. They weaponized cartels and gangs like Tren de Aragua against us, interfered with our elections through Smartmatic machines, and are committing crimes against our population on our territory.
All at the orders of their Communist regime.
I hope Trump obliterates them. But it also brings up serious questions of election integrity anywhere there are machines used.
A story came out this week about how Elon stopped a massive vote rigging scandal involving machines in 2024.
What all this comes down to, is that we need paper ballots. Foreign governments are abusing machines to rig our elections and we need to stop it.
This Venezuela business should send chills down the spine of every American.
They infiltrated us, they abused us, they drugged us, and they conspired to rig our elections.
Enough is enough. Time to switch to watermarked paper ballots.
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Wendy Rogers is a retired member of the Air Force. Use of military rank, job titles, and photographs in uniform does not imply endorsement by the Department of the Air Force or the Department of Defense.
