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''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' wrote that "Smartmatic scrapped a simple corporate structure" of being based in Boca Raton "for a far more complex arrangement" of being located in multiple locations following the Sequoia incident. Though Smartmatic has made differing statements saying that they were either American or Dutch based, the [[United States Department of State]] stated that its Venezuelan owners "remain hidden behind a web of holding companies in the Netherlands and Barbados". ''[[The New York Times]]'' states that "the role of the young Venezuelan engineers who founded Smartmatic has become less visible" and that its organization is "an elaborate web of offshore companies and foreign trusts", while [[BBC News]] states that though Smartmatic says the company was founded in the United States, "its roots are firmly anchored in (Venezuela)". Multiple sources simply state that Smartmatic is a Venezuelan company.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Tiglao|first1=Rigoberto D.|title=US Caracas Embassy: 'Smartmatic is a riddle'|url=http://www.manilatimes.net/us-caracas-embassy-smartmatic-is-a-riddle/232249/|accessdate=|work=The Manila Times|date=1 December 2015}}<br />{{cite book|title=Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), One Year After Dubai Ports World: Congressional Hearing|date=7 February 2007|publisher=[[Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States]]|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=978-1422320471|page=7<!--|accessdate=22 December 2016-->}}<br />{{cite news|last1=Uy|first1=Jocelyn R.|title=Smartmatic faces probe|url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/785566/smartmatic-faces-probe|accessdate=|work=Philippine Daily Inquirer|date=14 May 2016}}<br />Belgian Region's Decision to Use New Voting Machines Reignites E-voting Debate|url=http://www.cio.com/article/2391971/e-voting/belgian-region-s-decision-to-use-new-voting-machines-reignites-e-voting-debate.html|magazine=CIO magazine|date=2012-09-24</ref> Smartmatic maintains that the holding companies in multiple countries are used for "[[Tax avoidance|tax efficiency]]".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-10-30/news/0610300235_1_electronic-voting-election-officials-electronic-voting|title=Election officials OK with probe|last1=McCormick|first1=John|date=30 October 2006|work=The Chicago Tribune|accessdate=|language=en}}</ref>
''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' wrote that "Smartmatic scrapped a simple corporate structure" of being based in Boca Raton "for a far more complex arrangement" of being located in multiple locations following the Sequoia incident. Though Smartmatic has made differing statements saying that they were either American or Dutch based, the [[United States Department of State]] stated that its Venezuelan owners "remain hidden behind a web of holding companies in the Netherlands and Barbados". ''[[The New York Times]]'' states that "the role of the young Venezuelan engineers who founded Smartmatic has become less visible" and that its organization is "an elaborate web of offshore companies and foreign trusts", while [[BBC News]] states that though Smartmatic says the company was founded in the United States, "its roots are firmly anchored in (Venezuela)". Multiple sources simply state that Smartmatic is a Venezuelan company.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Tiglao|first1=Rigoberto D.|title=US Caracas Embassy: 'Smartmatic is a riddle'|url=http://www.manilatimes.net/us-caracas-embassy-smartmatic-is-a-riddle/232249/|accessdate=|work=The Manila Times|date=1 December 2015}}<br />{{cite book|title=Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), One Year After Dubai Ports World: Congressional Hearing|date=7 February 2007|publisher=[[Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States]]|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=978-1422320471|page=7<!--|accessdate=22 December 2016-->}}<br />{{cite news|last1=Uy|first1=Jocelyn R.|title=Smartmatic faces probe|url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/785566/smartmatic-faces-probe|accessdate=|work=Philippine Daily Inquirer|date=14 May 2016}}<br />Belgian Region's Decision to Use New Voting Machines Reignites E-voting Debate|url=http://www.cio.com/article/2391971/e-voting/belgian-region-s-decision-to-use-new-voting-machines-reignites-e-voting-debate.html|magazine=CIO magazine|date=2012-09-24</ref> Smartmatic maintains that the holding companies in multiple countries are used for "[[Tax avoidance|tax efficiency]]".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-10-30/news/0610300235_1_electronic-voting-election-officials-electronic-voting|title=Election officials OK with probe|last1=McCormick|first1=John|date=30 October 2006|work=The Chicago Tribune|accessdate=|language=en}}</ref>
==Election rigging==
An eyewitness testified in a sworn affidavit,
{{quotebox-float|"the software and fundamental design of the electronic electoral system and software of Dominion and other election tabulating companies relies upon software that is a descendant of the Smartmatic Electoral Management System. In short, the Smartmatic software is in the DNA of every vote tabulating company’s software and system.
22. Dominion is one of three major companies that tabulates votes in the United States. Dominion uses the same methods and fundamentally same
software design for the storage, transfer and computation of voter identification data and voting data. Dominion and Smartmatic did business together. The software, hardware and system have the same fundamental flaws which allow multiple opportunities to corrupt the data and mask the process in a way that the average person cannot detect any fraud or manipulation. The fact that the voting machine displays a voting result that the voter intends and then prints out a paper ballot which reflects that change does not matter. It is the software that counts the digitized vote and reports the results. The software itself is the one that changes the information electronically to the result that the operator of the software and vote counting system intends to produce that counts. That’s how it is done. So the software, the software itself configures the vote and voting result -- changing the selection made by the voter. The software decides the result regardless of what the voter votes."<ref>https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.283580/gov.uscourts.gand.283580.6.14.pdf</ref>}}
====2016 Utah Republican caucus====
====2016 Utah Republican caucus====
In the 2016 Utah Republican caucus, where [[Utah]] Republicans voted to choose the party’s nominee for president in the [[2016 Presidential election]], the voters had the opportunity to vote using traditional methods or to vote online. For online voting, the Utah Republican Party used an internet voting system developed by the Smartmatic-Cybernetica Internet Voting Centre of Excellence, based in [[Estonia]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=http://estonianworld.com/technology/estonian-i-voting-software-used-in-utah-republican-caucus/|title=Estonian internet voting software used in Utah Republican caucus|date=2016-04-14|newspaper=Estonian World|language=en-US|access-date}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://e-estonia.com/estonian-e-solutions-everywhere/|title=Estonian E-solutions Everywhere - e-Estonia|website=e-estonia.com|access-date=|date=2016-05-23}}</ref>
In the 2016 Utah Republican caucus, where [[Utah]] Republicans voted to choose the party’s nominee for president in the [[2016 Presidential election]], the voters had the opportunity to vote using traditional methods or to vote online. For online voting, the Utah Republican Party used an internet voting system developed by the Smartmatic-Cybernetica Internet Voting Centre of Excellence, based in [[Estonia]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=http://estonianworld.com/technology/estonian-i-voting-software-used-in-utah-republican-caucus/|title=Estonian internet voting software used in Utah Republican caucus|date=2016-04-14|newspaper=Estonian World|language=en-US|access-date}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://e-estonia.com/estonian-e-solutions-everywhere/|title=Estonian E-solutions Everywhere - e-Estonia|website=e-estonia.com|access-date=|date=2016-05-23}}</ref>