Issuing a written and video statement from London, Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mugica says that the company’s processes are “tamper resistant” but that the Venezuelan regime “tampered with” the numbers of actual voter turnout.
“Based on the robustness of our system, we know, without any doubt, that the turn out of the recent election for a National Constituent Assembly was manipulated. It is important to highlight that similar manipulations are made in manual elections in many countries, but because of the lack of electronic security and auditing safeguards, they go unnoticed,” the company says.
“So, what happened? Why can we stand by the results of previous Venezuelan elections but we cannot endorse the elections held last Sunday? Our automated election system is designed to make it evident when results are manipulated, however, there must be people auditing the system and watching for that evidence. During the National Constituent Assembly elections there were no auditors from the opposition parties as they did not want to participate.
“A vulnerability of any election that is clearly identified is that the consolidated results report that the system produces at the National Tabulation Center at the end of Election Day can be ignored by the authorities in charge of running the election and that altered results can be announced in its place. This is why, in all previous elections since 2004, representatives from all the political parties have been present in the Tabulation Center when the results report is issued to have access to the same information. In the election of the Constituent Assembly in 2017, there were no such representatives.”
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1. Why did it take two days after the Trump administration’s sanctions on Maduro for Smartmatic to issue a public statement distancing itself from the regime?
2. Did Smartmatic immediately cancel its existing contracts with the Venezuelan regime?
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