Voting machine company president indicted on bribery and money laundering charges

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted voting-machine company Smartmatic's president and founder Roger Piñate on bribery and money-laundering charges in order to get election contracts in the Philippines.

Smartmatic's voting machines have been used in Venezuelan and Philippine presidential elections, and was founded in 2000, but didn't take off until the Venezuelan election in 2004, when Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez chose the company to replace the country's previous machines, according to the Miami Herald.