Heider Garcia, a longtime Smartmatic engineer and manager, is named elections administrator in Tarrant County, Texas.
According to his LinkedIn account, Garcia was a Smartmatic software engineer from 2003-2005, a Native Solutions Deployment Coordinator from 2007-2007, a Product Manager from 2007-2012, and a Solution Manager from 2012-2016.
His LinkedIn account says he was a “spokesman” for Smartmatic in the Philippines during the period of the 2010 elections.
It says he left Smartmatic in March, 2016, and became elections manager in Placer County, California, in April, 2016.
He left Placer County to become elections administrator for Tarrant County in February, 2018. His LinkedIn account does not specify the date.
Source:
1. https://archive.ph/RDXZb
1. Why would a successful engineer and manager at a quickly growing company like Smartmatic to become a county official to administer elections?
2. Why would he serve only two years before moving to Tarrant County, Texas?
3. Is there any cause and effect between Garcia’s tenure as elections administrator in Tarrant County, for generations a Republican-voting area, and the county’s 2020 flip to vote for Democrats?
4. Does he have any ownership or other interest in Smartmatic that would present a professional conflict of interests?
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