With the 2024 presidential election just weeks away, a whistleblower for the Department of Justice, FBI, DEA and HSI is claiming to have evidence and witness testimony proving that Smartmatic and Dominion are owned by the Venezuelan regime and that the machines are manufactured out of the People's Republic of China.
Gary Berntsen, a former U.S. Air Force veteran and CIA chief of station, has been investigating the Venezuelan Cartel De Los Soles shadow government since 2019. Cartel De Los Soles, run by President Nicolas Maduro, is the largest, most well-funded transnational criminal organization in the world. Berntsen says his team has uncovered laundering from the cartel into NGOs and election companies. Berntsen also claims, “It is indisputable: Smartmatic election systems was created at the direction of now-deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. And its source code, the basis of its operating system, developed jointly by Venezuela’s Consejo National Electoral and Smartmatic was designed to allow election results to be altered without the knowledge of voters and the public.”
Smartmatic, an election security and logistics company, was first brought onto the scene in 2003 during the Venezuelan recall election. At the direction of the Cuban Director of General Intelligence (DGI), three Venezuelan-American computer engineers that were graduates from Simón Bolivar University, a Venezuelan University linked to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were hired to create specialized software for the company. These engineers ran a software office in Boca Raton, Florida. By using their created software and utilizing Italian lottery machines to serve as election hardware, they successfully altered votes to ensure Hugo Chavez' victory.
Smartmatic entered the U.S. election market in Cook County, Illinois and the state of New Jersey for Democratic primary races in 2006. A year prior, in 2005, Smartmatic purchased Sequoia Voting Systems Inc., a U.S. company that has conducted elections in the U.S. for over 100 years. Sequoia had a 22% share of the U.S. electoral market. Less than a year after the purchase, the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) investigated the ownership of Smartmatic. The Smartmatic source codes were immediately dumped into the Sequoia machines. As an attempt to conceal its Venezuelan connection, a former U.S. naval officer, Jack Blain, was recruited to set up a holding company to place Sequoia ownership in stock. As a result of the investigation findings, Smartmatic entered into an agreement with CFIUS to sell the company within 6 months. One of these Venezuelan engineers, then arranged for a small election company in Canada to purchase Sequoia. In 2018, Smartmatic publicly and with approval of the Venezuelan government, broke from the regime due to the rumored election fraud. This strategic move, however, allowed Venezuela to maintain its power and influence over the global electoral market.
Smartmatic source codes are owned by the Consejo Nacional Electoral. Every update of the system is stored at the Venezuelan Central Bank vault. This information was signed by the Venezuelan government, as confirmed in 2005, during the European Union Electoral Observation mission to Venezuela. In 2020, the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) conducted a conference call to consult with Smartmatic and Dominion to respond to concerns over election irregularities. How did a U.S. government agency conspire with companies known to have ties with foreign advisaries in order to answer the American people regarding potential election fraud?
Smartmatic has since built a production facility just outside Beijing, China that ships its hardware to Taiwan. The hardware is then fraudulently marked as manufactured in Taiwan to be shipped to both Smartmatic and Dominion for use in U.S. elections, in serious violation of U.S. law.
Dominion voting systems, which handle elections in almost all the swing states in the U.S., has relocated its research and development and its servers, which store swing state voting information, to its office in Belgrade, Serbia. This Serbian office, run by Venezuelan, Chinese and Serbian software engineers, maintains system administrative status over swing state elections and, according to Brunson, is operating under the direction of the Cartel Del Sol, Cuban DGI and the CCP. The information is saved on Huawei servers in Dominion's Belgrade office. The servers are also linked to Huawei servers in Hong Kong, China. Huawei has been identified by the U.S. national security apparatus as a threat to U.S. national security.