Smartmatic Chairman Mark Malloch Brown says that the company licenses software from Dominion.
He makes the comment during an interview with ABS-CBN News in the Philippines. After insisting that Smartmatic “has never been a Venezuelan company” and that “Hugo Chavez has never had a single share in the company,” Malloch Brown returns to his theme, “The issue is for us to retain the trust of the actual voter, the citizen.”
At about 08:24 in the interview, the questioner asks why Smartmatic is still in country after earlier scandals with the Commission on Elections, or COMELEC.
Questioner: “Why is Smartmatic even still here in the Philippines after reports that it had violated provisions of the election automated law, number one for example, that it was never supposed to be allowed to bid in the 2010 elections because it did not actually own the software, Dominion Voting Systems owned the software, plus the difficulty which Smartmatic had to put the COMELEC through just in order to access the source code, issues like that. Your thoughts. People say we should not be subjected to Smartmatic again this time around.
Brushing it off as competitor gossip, Malloch Brown replies, “The fact is, yes, part of our technology is licensed from Dominion … we have a license for the international use of that particular piece of the technology that we employ.”
Questioner: “The license issued by Dominion for you to use their proprietary software, that is a live license, that is an active license, that has not been revoked?”
Malloch Brown nods and grunts in the affirmative.
Source:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsSGbilTyxQ
1. What does Malloch-Brown mean by saying that Smartmatic licenses software from Dominion, when it is widely understood to be the other way around?
2. Why is Malloch-Brown so loquacious in the interview about everything except the nature of the Smartmatic-Dominion software license?
3. Why does Malloch-Brown limit Venezuelan regime ownership to Hugo Chavez, but not exclude the possibility that other regime figures might own shares in Smartmatic?
4. What does Malloch-Brown mean by “our” technology if Smartmatic had sold Sequoia (software) to Dominion six years earlier?
5. Is Mark Malloch-Brown aware or involve with the Smartmatic executives’ alleged bribery of the head of the Philippine election commission?
6. If he was aware of the bribes, does he knows the real purpose of the bribes?
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