Does the Dominion Voting Systems organization have ties to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, George Soros and the Clinton Foundation?
Facts And Fact Checking,2020 Election Fact Checking,Fake News,2020 Election,Voting Rights And Voter Fraud
CLAIM: Attorney Sidney Powell claimed that widely used voting machines from the election technology company Dominion Voting Systems featured software created "at the direction" of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to swing his own election results, and that the company has ties to the Clinton Foundation and Soros.
This is false
EVIDENCE: None of this is true. Dominion has no corporate ties with Venezuela, the Clinton Foundation or Soros.
Powell and other Trump allies have tried to tie Dominion, which sells election technology that was used in more than two dozen states, to another voting company called Smartmatic. During the 2020 election, Smartmatic's technology was used only in Los Angeles County, and not in any swing states, a spokesperson for the company told CNN.
Smartmatic was founded in Florida by two Venezuelans, a
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