“Lack of transparency into ownership and control of election vendors can mask foreign influence over an election vendor and corruption in local certification and contracting,” according to the Brennan Center’s report on vendor oversight. Key concerns:
- “Corruption in local certification and contracting”;
- Misaligned “motives of election vendors … with the public’s interest in free and fair elections.”
- “Foreign infiltration of the vendor’s supply chain or knowledge of client election officials’ capabilities and systems”;
- “Lack of insight into election vendor ownership presents a serious risk that vendor-led influence campaigns and public officials’ conflicts of interest will escape public scrutiny.”
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1. Framework-election-vendor-oversight
1. How could lack of transparency in foreign ownership of election vendors be a corrupting influence on American election processes and tabulation?
2. Could there have been corruption involved in the US testbed for Smartmatic in 2006 – the corruption-plagued Cook County, Illinois?
3. Why was one of the most corrupt counties and cities in the United States the first site for Smartmatic technology?
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