The Questions
The Questions
Our Mission
The mission of this website is to call attention to possible foreign and domestic malign influences on voting systems across our country with evidence obtained from open sources. This evidence raises significant concerns about whether our democratic system is under attack due to the use of foreign-owned electronic voting systems to run our elections and count our votes.
Are unauthorized and malicious foreign software engineers and administrators in hostile countries accessing our voting records and manipulating our elections? Is some of the work funded by one or more South American cartels? Is the personal voting information from past elections stored on Chinese servers in an eastern European country? Are actors able to control and alter the outcomes of our elections? Have they been doing so?
The timelines below trace the evolution of the coding and software that form the electronic DNA of America’s electronic voting and tabulation systems as they have developed over the years. The summary timeline provides the chronological history in brief. Just follow the yellow line. It connects pieces of evidence and raises important questions.
The full timeline includes more than 200 events between 1997 and 2024. Everything is linked to the original sources.
This evidence should concern all Americans. If we have lost control of our votes, we have lost control of our democratic process and our constitutional republic.
Main Timeline
- Apr 11 , 2000
- Apr 12 , 2000
- Jun 10 , 2003
- Oct 08 , 2003
- Apr 20 , 2004
- Mar 09 , 2005
- Mar 09 , 2005
- Dec 04 , 2005
- Oct 06 , 2006
- Dec 21 , 2006
- Oct 25 , 2007
- Aug 11 , 2008
- May 10 , 2010
- Jun 04 , 2010
- May 03 , 2011
- Oct 25 , 2012
- Apr 26 , 2013
- Nov 24 , 2014
- Jul 11 , 2016
- Jul 12 , 2016
- Sep 25 , 2018
- Dec 11 , 2020
- Aug 08 , 2024
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Smartmatic is incorporated in Delaware
April 11, 2000Smartmatic Corporation is incorporated in Delaware on April 11, 2000, giving its principal physical address as 19591 Dinner Key Drive,... -
Bizta Corp is incorporated in Delaware
April 12, 2000Bizta Corporation is incorporated as an American company in Delaware on April 12, 2000, by the same shareholders of Smartmatic.... -
Chavez regime acquires 28% of Bizta R&D, maker of Smartmatic software
June 10, 2003The Chavez government by this time has acquired 28% of Bitza Corporation, the company developing the election software for Smartmatic... -
Jorge Rodríguez: Bizta stake will let regime ‘take control’ of Smartmatic software in ES&S machines
October 8, 2003The National Electoral Commission is engaged in negotiations with the American ES&S company to buy voting machines, but not the... -
Miami Herald: Smartmatic machines ‘could be used to manipulate’ vote tally
April 20, 2004“Venezuela’s electoral council is scrapping its 6-year-old voting machines and replacing them with touch-screen computers from a tiny South Florida... -
Smartmatic buys Sequoia Voting Systems for $16 million
March 9, 2005With cash generated from its Venezuelan government contract to run the referendum to recall President Hugo Chavez, Smartmatic acquires the... -
Smartmatic begins Sequoia Integration (SAES-WinEDS)
March 9, 2005With the acquisition of Sequoia and its generations-old reputation and track record, Smartmatic can now merge its new Venezuela-developed technology... -
E.U. report: Venezuelan regime’s CNE owns Smartmatic’s software (SAES) source code
December 4, 2005Voting machine software for Venezuela’s 2004 Presidential Recall Referendum was developed as a joint effort between the Venezuelan government’s National... -
Democratic Rep. Maloney: Sequoia machines’ Smartmatic software is security threat
October 6, 2006Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney writes Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as a follow-up to her May letter to his predecessor, John Snow,... -
Smartmatic sells Sequoia to execs as SVS Holdings
December 21, 2006Prior to completion of a Treasury Department CFIUS investigation raised in 2006 by Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Smartmatic announces... -
California de-certifies Sequoia systems, citing institutional flaws in source code
October 25, 2007As part of its bottom-up review of electronic voting systems source codes, the California Secretary of State issues a revised... -
Smartmatic & Dominion partner in Philippines
August 11, 2008Smartmatic joins Dominion Voting Systems of Canada to carry out the first automated election in the Mindanao Region in the... -
Philippine Congress Questions Smartmatic
May 10, 2010The House of Representatives investigating allegations of fraud in the May 10, 2010 elections after sitting multiple times seeks to... -
Dominion buys Sequoia assets, including ‘all’ software
June 4, 2010Dominion Voting Systems announces that it has acquired the assets of Colorado-based Sequoia Voting Systems, with operations in “nearly 300... -
Dominion set up its primary data center in Serbia with Huawei strategic partner
May 3, 2011Dominion Voting Systems builds a data center in Belgrade, Serbia, through Roaming Networks, also known as Dot Networks. Roaming/Dot is... -
Obama votes early on a Smartmatic machine controlled by Dominion with Venezuelan software
October 25, 2012“President Obama’s made history on October 25, by becoming the first-ever incumbent president to cast an early vote. We are... -
Smartmatic faces suit over missing source code in the Philippines
April 26, 2013The Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) is considering filing a lawsuit against Smartmatic for failing to release the source code... -
Smartmatic CEO announces SGO group, with Mark Malloch-Brown as chairman
November 24, 2014On November 24, 2014, Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mugica and Mark Malloch-Brown announce the formation of a new venture, SGO, with... -
Dominion brings talent from Belgrade, Serbia
July 11, 2016The leading Serbian computer magazine PC PRESS dedicates an article to Dominion Voting Systems in Belgrade. Goran Obradovic, Vice President... -
Smartmatic probed in Philippines for changing source code
July 12, 2016After a difficult day in the 2013 elections where the Electoral Commission found itself in the middle of a dispute... -
U.S. sanctions Jorge Rodriguez, electoral strategist and head of Smartmatic’s contract in Venezuela
September 25, 2018The United States government, through the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), imposes personal sanctions on senior Venezuelan... -
FCC affirms designation of Huawei as a national security threat
December 11, 2020“The Federal Communications Commission today took another important step to secure the nation’s critical communications infrastructure by voting to deny... -
Feds criminally charge Smartmatic president
August 8, 2024A federal grand jury has indicted Smartmatic CEO Roger Piñate and a Smartmatic vice president with crimes concerning foreign corruption...
THE FACTS
